PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

As it does during the first week of every month of the pandemic, attention turns to retail leases. This week found that one of the crisis’ most troubled retailers — Nordstrom — will only pay half of its rent for the balance of 2020. Retail Properties of America, Inc. It, along with Authentic Brands Group owns SPARC Group.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Simon Property Group has partnered with Retail-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform Guesst on a multi-brand experiential retail concept. And Guesst’s technology will be used for brand onboarding, sales transactions, payments, inventory tracking and data reporting. We are having a high bankruptcy year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2018

Brands might want a space to test new concepts with shoppers in brick-and-mortar retail environments, but they don’t always want the time and expense involved in building out a permanent store. By comparison, its mainline spaces average 181,100 square feet in size. Brands are also rolling out their own pop-up shops.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Gap Brand announced that its CEO Jeff Kirwan was leaving the company, just as the retailer gets ready to reveal its fourth-quarter results. Kirwan had been in charge of the Gap brand since December 2014. s head of Global Talent and Sustainability, will oversee the brand until a permanent replacement is found.

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

Small menswear brands, even some that are considered to be medium or large, might face a challenge when it comes to marketing: How do they get in front of consumers? The idea is that brands don’t have to worry about competition or incentives to drive people to purchase their products. The Brand Experience.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Cashierless stores aren’t just for mega retailers like Amazon to sell prepared food from their kitchens or products from other producers: Beverage brands, among other companies, are getting into the action and choosing this checkout experience for stores that showcase their own products IRL (“in real life”) as a marketing tool.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

It’s going to be a very vocal year when it comes to retail. By comparison, ownership of smart TVs has increased just 5 percent, and ownership of connected cars has increased 3 percent since 2018. Houndify is one-of-a-kind in that it is the only platform that allows brands to remain in complete control of their data and their brand.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In this case, it’s the gap between interest and intent, the chasm that lies between consumer awareness of unattended retail and actually taking the plunge in buying at the kiosk and vending machine. At a high level, according to PYMNTS data , unattended retail is reaching only one-tenth of its potential. Hurdles For Larger Merchants.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

To bring higher-end products to its website, Walmart had courted brands like water-filtration company Katadyn for months. As part of its efforts, the retailer gave some brands the opportunity to determine how outside sellers on the its website price and display their products. These brands are objecting because of pricing.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

A common, enduring fantasy for many consumers — a group that likely includes many PYMNTS readers and writers — is walking into a high-end retail store, chain or boutique that sells luxury brands , and spending vast sums on the best clothes, shoes, handbags, watches and other items. Different Proposition.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The pandemic hit Bangladeshi clothing suppliers and the country's overall economy hard when British fashion retailers had to shut down, a report from The Times said. That number came from 1,931 global fashion brands nixing their orders. Many of the retailers had just then taken their spring and summer collection deliveries.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

Digitally native brands are trying on a new brick-and-mortar model for size: Instead of opening the doors to cavernous stores, they are opting to create smaller-format locations. In turn, brands such as Indochino can benefit by not having to stock many items. More broadly, the showrooms are a destination. The Omnichannel Advantage.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Months after Toy R Us sought to liquidate its holdings in the United States, merchants have taken up space left behind by the toy retailer. The buildings are said to have modest rents and longer leases in comparison to modern-day standards, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Enter Shping , an Australian startup seeking to change the way consumers research products — and the way brands market them. But the product evolved into a mobile product search engine for consumers and a marketing tool for brands. In those cases, brands pay a website for access to their audience. Changing Customer Behavior.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2018

might simply be the latest mall brand caught in the retail whirlpool — things are beginning to turn around. Banana Republic , by comparison, was up 1 percent year over year, while growth at its namesake Gap brand remained flat. With, of course, a few qualifications. Stores Matter”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Those are the types of retailers that Bulletin, a retail tech firm looking to disrupt brick-and-mortar retail, wants to work with – because they are the brands that are most interested in offering the types of highly curated physical experiences that Branston’s company specializes in building.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

For retailers, nothing really ever comes easy — and things aren’t getting any easier, at least when it involves gaining and retaining customers. The webinar featured Karen Webster from PYMNTS and Amy Parsons, senior vice president of global acceptance at Discover Financial Services and its payments brand, Discover Global Network.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

The company also pointed to several new features as it continues to be position itself as an accessible promotional and shopping platform for retailers. He also said Alphabet is seeing advertisers embrace YouTube as a “mid-funnel” to build brand awareness even if someone isn’t yet in buying mode.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

retail economy is unprecedented. Terror attacks on 9/11 happened well before the internet was a factor, and are therefore not relevant as a comparison. What are some of the retailing changes that could last beyond the end of the coronavirus crisis? Suddenly, this issue is front and center for every retailer and every customer.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2019

Today, Lam said her concept is a “vegan and gluten-free lifestyle brand and baking mix company that gives back.” (The Some other gluten-free or vegan mixes use almond flour, by comparison, which someone with a nut allergy may not be able to eat. It also has an email marketing strategy and does festivals to gain brand recognition.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

Retailers in the physical world are at a real disadvantage when it comes to knowing the customers in their stores, and what they do once they get there. The list goes on, but suffice it to say, the jokes about digital retailers knowing more about customers than they know about themselves didn’t appear in the culture out of nowhere.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

The team at my Mystore-E believes they can solve that problem, with an AI tool called Tore-E that is specifically designed for retail environments. Our goal is to create a personalized shopping experience that benefits retail stores, while also catering to the customers’ wants, needs and style preferences.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

In 2014, it was hard to pick up any article about retail and not end up reading an obituary for the mall. Consumers weren’t done with physical retail; they just wanted something different. It’s a retail center “designed around solving to provide everything that brands said they wanted and needed out of a physical store.”

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are changing the way they manage their workforces in the age of Amazon: Walmart , for instance, is testing multiple versions of a new team structure called the “Great Workplace” in some of its locations. billion for its stores in comparison to $1.63 billion in the year prior. In Other Brick-And-Mortar News.

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JUNE 7, 2018

The goal for all retailers is, of course, to deliver an excellent experience, both online and in stores, and to find ways for those disparate experiences to mesh seamlessly with one another. The Swedish furniture retailer seems to be making the opposite transition. IKEA is slowing the growth pace it has sustained in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

It hasn’t been a very good year for conventional wisdom, though, and a recent Internet Retailer survey just poked a big hole in the aforementioned theory. By comparison, 55.3 By comparison, 55.3 percent of shoppers navigated to a seller’s native online marketplace after finding their products on Amazon.

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JUNE 20, 2016

Retailers often treat millennials with mix of attraction and disdain that mirrors the “can’t live with them, can’t live without them” way of life. For comparison’s sake, that metric has edged up just 3.6 For comparison’s sake, that metric has edged up just 3.6 percent between 2012 and 2015.

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JUNE 20, 2016

Retailers often treat millennials with a mix of attraction and disdain that mirrors the “can’t live with them, can’t live without them” way of life. For comparison’s sake, that metric has edged up just 3.6 For comparison’s sake, that metric has edged up just 3.6 percent between 2012 and 2015.

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AUGUST 28, 2018

What about retail stores, restaurants and hotels? Technology is making it easier for the workforce to put in the daily eight (or 10, or 12) hours from their own homes, but another change is taking place: Using commercial space left behind by retailers, or in eateries or hotels, as communal areas of work. WeWork Efforts.

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JULY 16, 2018

Amazon is rolling out its annual Prime Day event, and other merchants are taking note: Retailers from eBay to Target are rolling out their own promotions as they compete with Amazon for customers. As a result of Prime Day’s popularity, retailers are stepping up to the plate to offer shoppers deals on their own sites.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

As the rise of eCommerce marches onward, physical retailers increasingly rely on store transformation initiatives to reinvent brick-and-mortar stores to maintain majority market share and boost consumer interest. One such retail reinvention shifts the role of store associates from a sales position to one of service.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

In comparison, nearly a third of millennials and bridge millennials (those born between 1979 and 1988) express the same level of interest in getting vaccinated.”. Consumers’ interest in the vaccination is largely generational. Interest is particularly high among older generations, with 46.5 Many Digital Shifters Keeping Their Distance.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

We are beyond excited to announce the launch of our co-branded Credit Card with RBL Bank. The RBL Bank-BankBazaar SaveMax co-branded Credit Card comes equipped with a wide range of benefits and features. 100 spent on all other retail categories. Experience rewards you have only dreamt of with this lifetime-free Credit Card.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

When it comes to a retailer protecting its assets — digital and otherwise — the intrinsic assumption might be that the focus ought to look outward. But the reality is that the greatest security threat facing retail companies, according to a number of recent surveys, often comes from within. In a story posted yesterday (Feb.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Can good food restore consumers’ appetite for brick-and-mortar retail? Luxury brands seem to hope so, with several designers introducing food experiences in an effort to gain an edge in the increasingly challenging realm of physical retail. Only 5,000 of the tins will be produced, and each will retail for $110.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

In a time of increasing change for retailers and consumers, the current global climate has begun accelerating the future of retail trends at a much quicker pace than previously envisioned. mobile wallet landscape is fragmented in comparison to that of Asian markets. By contrast, U.S. Capturing the New Customer.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Showing the continued struggles of retail stores in the pandemic era, Nordstrom reported a 22 percent net sales decline for the nine-week holiday period that ended Jan. In 2019, by comparison, they only represented 34 percent. 2, according to a press release. The trends for sales went up compared to the third quarter, though.

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