Perficient

JANUARY 5, 2021

Here are some reasons why retailers were so successful this past holiday shopping period: Preparation at its Finest. Enabling inventory visibility and optimization, and scaling across fulfillment centers helped these retailers to address the surge in online demand and scale appropriately to enhance system performance.

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Chris Skinner

APRIL 20, 2020

Things we’re reading today include … Bank of England ‘failing climate’ with Covid-19 stimulus programme CMA letter to Metro Bank on breaches of the Retail Banking Order Businesses Say Big Banks Flouted ‘First Come First Served’ for Aid Are Credit Unions As Safe As Banks Right Now?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

Call it a crisis that crosses the pond, will last into 2020 and, likely, beyond. Looking past the cheerful numbers tied to holiday shopping and the tens of billions of dollars spent on Black Friday, Cyber Monday and into Christmas, the decline of retail, at least the traditional retail model, continues into the new year, and across oceans.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Of the many data-based insights contained in the new Black Friday 2020 Report: Crossing the Digital-Physical Shopping Divide , one line captures the mood of this just-concluded commerce holiday weekend: “Concerns over COVID-19 were present, but were secondary to consumers who craved convenience.”. consumers taken on Saturday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands came in two flavors during 2020. The first were the Pepsis, Heinzes and Krafts that either didn’t like their retail distribution or saw a pandemic-driven opportunity to get new products in new configurations to the consumer. Maybe it’s apples that have not even bruises, but.

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Accenture

AUGUST 31, 2020

Alliance Data and American Express, in particular, experienced a 30%+ decline in spend YoY, driven by the headwinds of store-based retail (ADS) and T&E sectors…. The post Q2 2020: US credit card issuer snapshot appeared first on Accenture Banking Blog.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

When it’s said and done there was only one story that mattered in the retail universe this year and it was the rise of the digital-first economy. They and others have succeeded because they entered the market independent of traditional retail, and because their business model fit the needs of the pandemic.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Perficient is excited to present Retail Roundtable: A Year of Change in E-commerce and Supply Chain with the Dallas Business Journal. We’ll sit down with leaders at Sally Beauty to discuss the strategies and tactics that have helped them succeed with e-commerce and supply chain management in 2020. Shifting Priorities.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Every year for the last 110 years , members of the retail trade group, known as the National Retail Federation (NRF), have assembled to discuss the slate of issues pertinent to its members. COVID-19, of course, didn’t cause physical retail’s steep decline — it just accelerated it. Retail is now about logistics and the last mile.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

retail and food services sales for December 2020 fell 0.7 percent from November 2020 but they were 2.9 Retail trade sales dropped 0.3 percent from November 2020, although they were 6.3 Retail trade sales dropped 0.3 percent from November 2020, although they were 6.3 retail sales were down 1.1

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 24, 2019

If 2019 was the year of the challenger bank, 2020 will be the year payments companies move closer to bank territory. Marqeta, the card issuing and processing startup supporting the capabilities of large companies like Kabbage and Square, sees 2020 as a big year for payments companies branching out into banking.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

But in other ways, it was business as usual, as the two biggest retailers in the world – Walmart and Amazon – posted stellar earnings numbers and competed in more muted ways for the U.S. percent of total consumer spending in Q2 (spanning all categories, including retail) and 9 percent of total retail spending. billion to $110.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The world has changed a great deal since 2020 began. consumers are now grocery shopping using a variety of connected devices, while 46 million (38 percent) are shopping for retail products — without ever leaving the confines of their homes. Forty-two million (30 percent) U.S. Some 130 million (60 percent) of U.S.

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Abrigo

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Key Takeaways Commercial real estate lending will be a top focus for many financial institutions in 2020. The Mortgage Bankers Association expects 9% growth in CRE originations in 2020. To read news headlines, commercial real estate (CRE) is headed for a terrible 2020. MBA's 2020 CRE outlook: Originations up 9%.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2020

said the incentives it hands out to banks and retailers will climb faster than revenue and are on track to be at the high end of its targeted range for 2020. Visa last year renewed its longtime partnership with JPMorgan Chase & Co., and has been spending more on rebates designed to encourage […].

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

In fact, 2020 opened with retail reports decrying the great toy sales slump , citing the 4 percent fall-off in toy sales, the rather tepid holiday sales season reported between 2018 and 2019 and the fact that toy sales came up short during last year’s holiday season. under the age of 14.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

retail rents falling in many locales by percentages even greater than those seen in or after the 2007-08 Great Recession. These decreases are historic,” the Real Estate Board of New York wrote in a new report showing that average Manhattan retail asking rents fell in all of the island’s 17 retail corridors during autumn.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

retail sales were down 1.1 Total sales for September 2020 through November 2020 were up 5.2 According to the report, “the September 2020 to October 2020 percent change was revised from up 0.3 According to the report, “the September 2020 to October 2020 percent change was revised from up 0.3

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

And in retail, Amazon ’s earnings were off the charts by any metric, and they didn’t come from cost-cutting. 200%: Growth in business email compromise attempts between April 2020 and May 2020. All this, Today in Data. 175K: Minimum number of new jobs Amazon says it has created since March.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

and has attracted more than 3,000 retailers to its partnerships. Sykes believes the attraction of online companies and uber-retailers it simple at one level. Klarna has melded New York Fashion Week glitz with experiential retailing this year. The changes in fashion retail are being driven by three dynamics.

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Perficient

JUNE 17, 2020

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, retailers were already seeing enthusiasm from customers for more convenient ways to interact during the purchasing process. While some retailers have offered limited order pickup options for some time, this was often limited to certain verticals or a small sub-set of products. The Challenges.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The 2020 holiday shopping season will be an unusual one in many respects. But declaring doorbusters officially a thing of the past — or 2020 as the year the Black Friday shopping weekend finally became a historical artifact — is probably incredibly premature. percent, according to preliminary data from Sensormatic Solutions.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

When Indochino launched in 2007, the company wasn’t out to create a new template for the entire retail sector, just a better product with better prices and a better buying experience. After all, the pandemic has hit retail perhaps harder than any other economic sector, and an awful lot of players probably won’t make it, Green said.

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Perficient

OCTOBER 20, 2020

With Acquia Engage 2020 underway, the morning started with some exciting news about Acquia Drupal Cloud , but there are some big new things coming to the Acquia Marketing Cloud as well. I find myself being retargeted to or having products suggested that I have just recently purchased from those very retailers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2021

Government pandemic aid helped bankruptcy filings hit a 35-year low in 2020, according to legal service firm Epiq. In Epiq's report on 2020 bankruptcy statistics, the firm found that 2020 had the lowest numbers since 1989, with 529,068 over all chapters, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

According to Mastercard ’s SpendingPulse transactional analysis, total retail spending for 2020’s 75 days of Christmas was up 3 percent, and eCommerce sales were up 49 percent — good for the stay-at-home economy and tough sledding for department stores. percent overall and 31 percent online. percent in overall sales, and only up 3.3

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Will Black Friday 2020 mark the beginning of a new, digital-first holiday shopping tradition, or will consumers return to their block-long queues after the pandemic has subsided and they are once again free to shop in stores? 28, 2020, to find out how they are commemorating the traditional kick-off of the holiday shopping season.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As grocers test out different approaches to get products to shoppers in a more efficient manner, food retailers are betting big on small warehouses to shore up their growing delivery operations. Delivery stands as a big area of innovation. And in this case, smaller can be better, it seems. Walmart, Albertsons Cos.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Walgreens has followed in the footsteps of Walmart and Amazon to join the retailer-as-ad-agency trend , while BigCommerce recently launched Open Checkout to let developers, retailers and partners create tailored checkout experiences. 88% : Minimum share of all digital shopping carts abandoned by shoppers in March 2020.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Despite a recent surge in coronavirus cases, retailers are fighting for a rework and loosening of shopping restrictions before Black Friday and the holiday season. Retailers that sell essential items alongside their other products have been labelled “essential,” giving them an unfair advantage over other stores, some allege.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Key Data Points: Consumers are performing 12 percent more activities at home in 2020 than they did in 2019 and making purchases during 12 percent of those activities, on average. percent made voice-assisted purchases while shopping for groceries or retail goods in the last 24 hours. 31 percent bank via app. 30 percent saw a decline.

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Bobsguide

MARCH 23, 2021

A flexible, collaborative and adaptable approach to partnership was behind the success of 2020 bobsguide Best Retail Banking System Implementation award winners Compass Plus and Unibank. Unibank, one of the largest, most innovative and successful retail banks in Azerbaijan, originally teamed up.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Despite the ongoing pandemic, retail holiday sales were 8.3 percent higher in 2020 than in 2019, surprising even the National Retail Federation (NRF). Despite unprecedented challenges, consumers and retailers demonstrated incredible resilience this holiday season,” said NRF President Matthew Shay in a statement.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

TJX reported earnings that showed a fast uptick for store opening traffic after having closed all of its retail locations globally in March, without an eCommerce shopping capability. And cosmetics is gaining online momentum as the pandemic drives cross-currents in the retail category. All this, Today in Data.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

In today’s top retail news, Cox Automotive has released its Complete Retail online experience, and Pinterest is introducing an augmented reality (AR) try-on tool to help users with testing and comparing eye shadow. Cox Automotive Launches End-To-End Car Retail Experience. Cox Automotive Launches End-To-End Car Retail Experience.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Amid a year in which over 11,000 retail closings have been announced, past Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren foresees that disruption to the retail vertical related to COVID-19 will continue into 2021 and possibly bring about additional closings of stores, CNBC reported. billion and has cut its losses quicker than anticipated during 2020.

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