PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

Despite the nearly continuous drumbeat of doom and gloom from the world of physical retail, there is, according to Affirm CRO Rob Pfeifer, something of a curious side phenomenon unfolding at the same time: Online brands – famous and famously successful online brands – are branching out into physical retail.

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PYMNTS

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.”.

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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. In terms of Walmart’s other efforts, the retailer is also focusing on features such as grocery pickup.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

has tapped Adyen for online and in-store payments in Europe , and the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation in India is at work on a quick response (QR) code ticketing system. In addition, Gap’s brand, Banana Republic, will also use the payments platform. In addition, Gap Inc. to other countries, the company said in an announcement.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Online retailers are expanding their brick-and-mortar footprints – and using feedback from eCommerce customers to inform the selections in their new stores. A data team from the eCommerce retailer determines what is sold at the locations, Amazon Physical Stores Director Drew Sheriff told MetroWest Daily News.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Allbirds has always been a somewhat unique company in the world of digitally-native brands attempting to take the world by storm. And as the buzz around the brand grew, so did its product line. metro areas. But it’s a jump the brands needs to make, Co-CEO Zwillinger noted. To date, there are 14 Allbirds stores in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Digitally native brands often test the retail waters with pop-up shops, and, after some offline success, they may expand their concepts with permanent locations. It will also offer a larger jewelry selection and exclusive brands like Sidney Garber, who has bracelets that sell for $8,600 and up. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2018

In response, unattended retail operators are finding new ways to embrace alternative payment methods, ranging from mobile wallets to cryptocurrencies. In the new Unattended Retail Tracker , PYMNTS charts the latest ways that companies are working to accept more non-cash payment methods, from the common credit card swipe to biometric scans.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2017

But, while more consumers are heading to mobile retail channels, the personal experience and ability to touch and preview items in-person offered by physical stores still holds allure for roughly 70 percent of shoppers. People aren’t [going] online anymore — they’re online all day,” Schambach said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The eCommerce retailer has reportedly seen its furniture business increase in the country by more than 120 percent during the last year, The Economic Times reported. More than 65 percent of its sales originate from shoppers outside the metros in cities like Raipur, Vellore, Nasik, Udupi, Kollam, Kota and Palakkad.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

Reuters , citing Reis, the real estate research firm, reported the vacancy rate in 28 of the 77 metro areas increased during the first three months of 2019. As the retail sector continues to undergo restructuring, a number of retail real estate markets face more vacancies and falling rents. New construction plummeted 53.9

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

From there, consumers are given a “large assortment of different tires to choose from,” including all of the major tire brands across all price ranges, Komal said. And it is not necessarily just a tire retailer – Komal said it is more of a logistics company that also happens to sell and install tires.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

To get more millennials on board, the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer is rolling out offerings designed to attract younger, well-to-do consumes in urban areas. That service option ups the ante for speed and flexibility through Jet.com, as the retailer previously had a relatively early 9 a.m. Private Labels and Brand Resellers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

To open 14 locations through next year, brand incubator and shopping website Verishop made a deal with U.S. Aside from being an online marketplace where consumers can buy from trendy apparel brands such as LoveShackFancy and Vince, the company has chosen to roll out some of its own brands. mall owner Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

They looked at the marketplace and saw an opening for a new kind of spiked seltzer, this one with tequila instead of the malt liquor used in most seltzer brands. The original business model for Onda was to launch at retail. Any sales must be routed through a distributor and eventually a retailer. Technically, “onda” means wave.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

“Last October, Kroger introduced Home Chef retail meal kits, and we’re now expanding to add the easy-to-prepare recipes to hundreds of new locations, providing convenient access to the meal solution at more than 700 stores. .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The retailer also announced yesterday (Nov. as well as grocery delivery at about 600 locations in 50 metro areas. Amazon, by comparison, has grocery pickup at 22 Whole Foods locations in 48 metros. eCommerce business, recently said that Walmart could one day own more than 40 independent eCommerce retailers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Walmart may be America’s biggest retailer and jockeying for a position as one of its biggest grocers, too — but millennials aren’t buying it. The big box retailer has ramped up its efforts to reach this generation — to little avail, so far. Walmart’s new strategy suggests it may be a question of branding.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

In the longer run, the service will grow over the next several months to the grocer’s 570 retail locations throughout California, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Florida. Amazon Fresh, a new physical retail concept from Amazon, is setting up shop in four locations in the Chicago market, the Chicago Tribune reported.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

Retailers are turning to voice assistants to make it easier for customers to shop for groceries amid strong competition. If a shopper instructs Google Assistant to add milk to the shopping cart, for example, the feature will add the size, brand and type of milk he or she regularly chooses. households.”. households.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The chain was held as one of the pioneers of the so-called fast fashion movement that dominated retail, particularly retail targeted at young female customers, for approximately a decade and a half. In the U.S. many of those hundreds of locations are located in malls, and suffering from the ill effects of falling consumer foot traffic.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2016

While the eCommerce giant has managed to narrow this window to one or two days, an unlikely brand is saying that it should take no longer than an hour. ” While Luedorf and American Apparel might be hitting the express delivery point hard, it only applies to a subset of 50 products the retailer is dubbing as “basics.”

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

At the same time, major brands have backed integrations taking place during conferences. The news comes as lifestyle brand Goop was opening its first permanent store in New York City’s SoHo district after experimenting with a pop-up shop on Long Island, among other locations.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

has an updated look and a new focus: the shopping needs of major metro consumers, particularly around grocery. For food, they want to see the brands and the products and confirm they will be fresh and quality. Same-store sales, one of the favored metrics for judging retail, excluding fuel, increased 1.6 percent increase.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

In 2016, the company announced it had opened 23 “flex-format” stores — smaller stores less than 50,000 square feet designed for urban shoppers — in metro areas like Chicago, Philadelphia and Berkeley, California. According to Retail Dive , the project was allocated with $7 billion last March. ”

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Chris Skinner

MAY 8, 2017

Market Share of the UK Banks Source: Statista Change in UK Banks Market Share, 2005 to 2014 Source: The Competition and Markets Authority Investigation into Retail Banking Twenty years ago, we thought banks would be challenged by new entrants … but they weren’t.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Amazon is opening a 1 million-square-foot warehouse in metro Detroit and plans to hire 1,000 employees to fill it. Township leaders are ecstatic, yet some fear the company could kill more jobs than it creates because of its threat to the retail sector. Whole Foods-branded product sales tallied $500,000 in the first week.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2018

The pop-up store , in an era where retail is resetting rapidly all around, has become a popular option for all types of businesses, including eTailers looking to put feelers out into physical commerce without a big commitment, or even physical retailers trying to test-drive an expansion into a new market. ”

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

The retail news is full of companies that have made brilliant and sometimes dramatic pivots to catch up with the shift to Digital 3.0. While Wallace and her team will continue to build that channel, she expects that recent retail successes will carry the year. But sometimes the pre-pandemic plans work out just fine.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2017

number one grocery delivery brand. The Alabama startup eliminates grocery store trips for 20 million families in 47 metro areas. Customers pay $99 a year for unlimited free deliveries of groceries, household goods and even alcoholic beverages sold by Shipt’s retail partners.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

In two massive hiring tranches, the headcount has almost quadrupled, making Instacart an even more desirable destination for traditional brick-and-mortar retailers looking to grow their customer bases on the back of digital.”. The move represents an aggressive brand extension for Kroger, but will not pose much of a threat to Amazon.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

The goal is to roll out Prime Now Grocery via Whole Foods to metro areas across the U.S. The move comes as Amazon is moving to consolidate more of its Whole Foods offerings within its parent brand. The service’s more recent expansions are, according to Amazon, only part of what is planned for the rest of 2018.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Amazon is hoping that the wider focus combined with its own in-house talent and content from brands developed in the Amazon Live Creator will find a wider and more engaged audience than its last attempt. retail feather in cap of Ant Financial-owned Alipay, it seems thousands of U.S. Creating a live stream is easy. With Walgreens.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2017

Yes, last week, customers in many major metro areas — and the pedestrians on the streets outside their locations — were treated to the site of Lush employees stripped down to their skin but for their tastefully placed black aprons emblazoned with Lush’s equally subtle slogan: Get Naked! This time, it doesn’t seem Lush has.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

Robotics and automation were areas of focus for both retailers this week as they seek to upgrade their operations in an effort to capture more consumer spend. The move comes as cities and states are passing bans on cashless retail establishments, on the argument that such retail discriminates against unbanked consumers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2016

The world’s most famous and recognizable jewelry brand Tiffany reported holiday sales down 5 percent — a reality the company chalked up to “restrained consumer spending tied to challenging and uncertain global economic conditions.” metro Area and one in Portland.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 1, 2015

China UnionPay already entered into the South Korean market, and even a brand of my credit card issued in South Korea is UnionPay. T-money is available not only transportation including metro, bus and taxi but also for payments at convenience stores and other selected shops.

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