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APRIL 10, 2020

Cities are starting to supplement the federal government in an effort to save Main Street businesses from the destructive economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our goals are to help businesses, brands and cities increase individuals’ peace of mind around sanitation, contact and visit frequency.”. And speed is of the essence.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The PYMNTS August/September 2020 Order To Eat Tracker® done in collaboration with Paytronix looks at how restaurant operations are turning to digital menu management tools to keep offerings dynamic and orders flowing during a time of reopening and reinvention.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Main Street businesses are optimistic about their longer-term survival — meaning that they believe their businesses will be around two years from now. That’s important, given the fact that Main Street SMBs are responsible for driving a significant portion of the economy, employing roughly 40 percent of the workforce.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2019

Struggling to compete with online brands, famed Big Apple luxury retailer Barneys New York has put itself up for sale and filed for bankruptcy protection, according to a report by Reuters. . Barneys wants to keep its main store in Manhattan, and also four other locations.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Activewear brand Fabletics , which was co-founded by Kate Hudson in 2013, announced plans for a retail expansion across the U.S. The company confirmed that the new locations will bring the brand’s total retail store count to 30 locations throughout the U.S. “Our

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

How consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands and subscription-based businesses respond to this important trend will be make-or-break for many. The D2C And The New Brand Loyalty Opportunity study contains telling statistics on the growth of D2C, and only a few are needed to show the trend.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

When you've got a legacy business that's so used to going directly to the consumer and to a specific segment of the consumer, you build your operating model around that.”. But Knutson said the company is happy to hand over the front-end consumer interaction and life-cycle marketing activities to partner brands.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Two famous North American-based quick-service restaurant (QSR) brands are preparing to duke it out in China for chicken-meal supremacy, the most recent sign of how Western brands are trying to increase their footholds in that massive country. The news comes as more Western brands – including those based in the U.S. –

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The times they are a changin’ — as the People’s Bank of China has ordered local banks to stop issuing co-branded (bearing both the logo of UnionPay and a foreign card network), dual currency payment cards in mainland China, according to reports emerging this morning. dollars while traveling abroad.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

As Huang noted, brands and merchants always want to remain in full control of their consumer-facing experiences, so developing these web workflows in-house is not a bad investment. Once they find a company with sufficient reliability, brands can begin to focus on what they stand to gain from outsourcing. How To Successfully Outsource.

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JULY 30, 2019

He will also be the main contact person for the regulatory agencies tasked with oversight of Visa in the more than 200 countries in which it operates. Before that, Fabara worked at Barclays Bank as global chief operating officer for Barclaycard.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2020

Shopic’s core product is a mobile checkout app (white-labeled or branded) that lets consumers track and pay for items through their mobile devices without visiting the cashier station, and also allows associates to “line bust” and act as cashiers from any point in the store at any time. percent), have shorter lines (34.7

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The company offers FDIC-insured bank accounts and a Visa -branded payment cards for teens (aged 13-18) with budgeting features and other financial education tools built in. I got my first bank account at 14 from Wells Fargo, and it's still my main account today,” MacDonald said. Creating A Balance.

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JULY 7, 2020

Fast fashion already claimed a victim this week as Lucky Brand filed for bankruptcy, and H&M announced it was shuttering 170 stores across the globe due to the pandemic-driven digital shift. “We non-licensed goods) by way of self-owned and operated channels),” says fashion trade magazine The Fashion Law.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

As well there should be — those are among the main traits set to define payments in the 2020s. As you can imagine, digital disbursements stand as one of the main areas of innovation and disruption for the practice of payments going forward. We here at PYMNTS don’t mean to wear you down with all our anticipation about the new decade.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

That’s reportedly the case when it comes to luxury retail brand Gucci. These platforms bring urgency to fashion and serve as a newsfeed for brands. Gucci Operation. In fact, the popularity of luxury brands with Chinese consumers has also impacted the payment industry in the U.S., percent year over year.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

With Aloha Essentials, NCR gives restaurants robust yet easy-to-use tools in a single, simplified package to run your operations, so you can focus on great food and customer experiences.”. There are also add-on tools to advance brand loyalty. With NCR Aloha Essentials, it was all there.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

Zelle’s operator, Early Warning Services, reported a Q4 payment volume of $35 billion, which is up 12 percent from Q3 and 61 percent from a year before. Zelle has outperformed Venmo with volume, but not with PayPal’s branded money transfers. Also, 135 million transactions were processed during that same time.

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Perficient

JULY 20, 2020

There are two main types of healthcare personas, each with different goals. They indicate not just one overarching message, but the finer points of what motivates them, what stops them, what expectations they have for your brand, and more. What are marketing personas versus UX personas?

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Online brands spend tons of money to ensure that consumers have the absolute best user experience while on their website, yet they are forced to entrust couriers to deliver products with that same level of care and attention – and all too often, they don’t.”. That is accomplished with two main tools.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Last week, administrators for the department store chain said it would be wound down, and that all locations would be shuttered following 242 years in operation. The news came after Arcadia Group, Debenhams' largest concession operator, fell into administration. Arcadia comprises roughly 5 percent of Debenhams' sales.

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MAY 27, 2020

As The Wall Street Journal reported, the eatery hoped to avert a complete liquidation of its 98 locations in New York, the Mid-Atlantic, California, Illinois and Florida with a proposed $3 million sale of the business to Aurify Brands LLC. Under the terms of the deal, Aurify Brands would allow at least 35 of its U.S.

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APRIL 2, 2019

Innovation is one of the keys to advancement — and that increasingly means opening tech hubs, incubators and other such operations. Retailers and brands regularly announced their intention to up their game — and provide those treasured consumer experiences instead of mere transactions.

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

With nearly three decades of experience directing commercial lending, corporate finance, and insurance for leading brands, Perficient’s Insurance Principal, Brian Bell, stands at the forefront of our financial services practice. SEE MORE PEOPLE OF PERFICIENT   It’s no secret our success is because of our people.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

More than just ensuring safety, this reduces [public transit operators’] operational costs incurred by their current ticketing systems.”. Integrations that would have likely taken years to get off the ground will become operational in a matter of months. They can just tap and go. Rapidly Meeting Global Demand.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Digitally native sleep brand Purple Innovation, Inc. The company reported that operating expenses were 34.2 reported as part of its Q3 results that its direct-to-consumer (D2C) revenue surged 97.5 percent and its wholesale revenue rose 6.9 percent compared to Q3 2019, according to an announcement. percent for the year ago period.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Some operations like Chipotle are even rolling out store designs that feature pick-up windows to let order-ahead diners collect their items without having to enter the restaurant. The brand is now piloting a new store model intended to better support such takeout and delivery purchases. A strong delivery strategy can help U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2018

Direct-to-consumer advertising on Facebook has reportedly hit a rough patch, with spending by brands decreasing there. The trend comes at a time when brands are facing other changes on the social media site. That’s not the only recent news that involves brand and Facebook. Unwanted Transparency.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 1, 2024

Honkook Kim and his Gentle Monster Brand is a perfect example. The Banking Innovation Playbook – Step 1: Find a Niche Kim looked at the market and knew he needed traction in at least a single segment where he could create a brand and a following for Gentle Monster. Find the gap in one segment and build success from there.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In a press release , The Dalumi Group said Zoara.com has sales in more than 40 countries around the globe and is a main player in the online sales of loose diamonds, diamond engagement rings and diamond jewelry. This expansive operation will contribute to optimizing Zoara’s sourcing and production.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

Huawei is the second ranked smartphone brand in the world, but its computer business is fairly new. Huawei’s consumer division accounted for almost half of its revenue in 2018, and the company has previously said that it wants to pass Samsung as the globe’s number one smartphone brand. We have to wait a bit longer to achieve that.”.

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MAY 23, 2019

has joined the ranks of companies and brands setting up innovation labs. In the case of PepsiCo, the company said it plans to make use of “proprietary and syndicated research into restaurant and food ordering interactions” to “teach operators how to identify and deploy technology solutions that benefit their business.”. QSR Innovation.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Fast food and quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are much more about mass production than customization, no matter how many personalized options those operations offer hungry consumers. Boston Market, for instance, is among the restaurant brands making their first forays into loyalty rewards. The main problem? Granular View.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

It seemed like a no-brainer to me – an opportunity for Amazon users and restaurant brands to create the order-ahead and delivery experience without having to download a branded restaurant app or use an aggregator. Today, restaurant operators are dealing with their own version of the so-called “Amazon experience.” Time flies.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2020

They can route in a single step part of the payment to the delivery person, part of it to Uber Eats, and part of it to any other operator. They want Netflix, they want to be able to order from Amazon and they want to be able to access global brands for the same reason everyone else does.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

While the company’s main targeted demographic was budget-focused customers, it has since expanded to include travelers, mostly in the business field. China has been particularly promising for the company, because it has a huge room inventory. Moreover, OYO Hotels Japan offers various values ??for ”

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JUNE 5, 2019

Triad’s main business is selling advertising space on the websites of retailers and helping brands create digital advertising campaigns. As for Amazon , the eCommerce operator wants to capture a piece of the $129 billion digital advertising space and reportedly will sell video ad spots on its mobile app. billion this year.

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