PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Luxury brands, jewelry stores and women’s ready-to-wear stores tended to be top spending destinations, according to research from First Data. As consumers seek to impress their special someone, they turned to “big ticket” items in 2017: Retailers saw average ticket sizes of $711 for luxury brands and $378 for jewelry.

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MARCH 11, 2019

That was on display this week in payments and commerce, as cashless jumped forward in Atlanta with a big partnership, only to get the cold shoulder in Philadelphia where it is now banned by law. The city of Philadelphia certainly worried it is …. The Philadelphia measure does have some exceptions. So too, is Costco.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That Amazon is a widely lionized yet simultaneously imitated force in retail is not surprising. Ever since Amazon introduced a one-click checkout, a loyalty program that people willingly paid for, two-day shipping that has compressed to same-day delivery, attempts at reinventing retail by everyone in it have been never ending.

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MARCH 11, 2020

The advance of Amazon’s cashierless technology is not a new story to the retail beat as of 2020. We’re not trying to replace them,” Cameron Janes, vice president of Amazon’s physical retail division, told CNBC. “I Have other retailers signed on with the service? We’re not trying to be Whole Foods.

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JULY 11, 2018

And now, Amazon is bringing its annual retail holiday “Prime Day” to Whole Foods. As a result, local merchants could stop spending money on third-party apps and loyalty programs that require a huge spend on customer acquisition to get a small number of consumers to convert — only then could the retailer have a relationship with the customer.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

BNPL is a thoroughly mobile experience that completes the retail trifecta: less expensive, easy to use and totally portable. cities (LA, Chicago, Brooklyn, Houston, Philadelphia) seeing the greatest action. Sneakers, Makeup and Money. Afterpay reported $160 million in BNPL sales during Black Friday/Cyber Monday 2019, with five U.S.

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OCTOBER 5, 2018

Spring’s online store carries fashion items as well as accessories from brands like Gucci and Levi’s. And ShopRunner, which was started by Michael Rubin, provides two-day shipping for free to its members from eCommerce retailers such as Bloomingdale’s and Cole Haan.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Walmart ‘s online home brand Allswell has announced the launch of its Tiny Home retail concept. Released last year, the design-centric, digitally-focused brand boasts a line of home goods, mattresses and bedding. Allswell is affiliated only with Walmart and not with its online counterpart Jet.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Digital delivery service goPuff will acquire BevMo , a specialty beverage retailer based on the U.S. Philadelphia-based goPuff, which bills itself as a kind of catch-all service for helping customers with various everyday shopping needs, is hoping to use the announcement to enter into the California market, the blog post stated.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Startups in the eCommerce space have long enabled their customers to experience their products in real life (“IRL”) through temporary retail shops, and now, digitally-focused brands belonging to major retailers are taking a similar approach. Fashion retailer Charlotte Russe , which has over 500 stores in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2019

When it comes to fulfilling consumers’ need for instant gratification, physical retailers might have an upper hand, but they can struggle to gain the depth of insights that eTailers have on their customers’ demographics and buying behavior. Around the Unattended Retail World. Catering to “Immediate Gratification” with Automated Retail.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2016

Despite being placed front and center on jerseys, those are actually the brand names (or slogan, in Emirates’ case) that sponsor teams whose actual names are Arsenal FC , Chelsea FC and Manchester United , respectively, all members of the English Premier League. There’s one that clearly says “Chevrolet,” so that’s obviously the team’s name.

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MAY 20, 2019

Kiosks are increasingly becoming part of the retail landscape. As reported in the latest Unattended Retail Tracker , done in partnership between PYMNTS and WorldNet Payments, unattended retail is gaining traction worldwide, on the heels of growth in consumer demand and as employers look to increase their operating profits.

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MARCH 5, 2019

The department store retailer reported revenues of $6.8 And, according to a statement from Kohl’s, the retailer ended its fiscal year with 1,159 brick-and-mortar locations in 49 states. With that aim in mind, the company plans to experiment with an “outfit bar concept” in 50 brick-and-mortar locations in Philadelphia and Chicago.

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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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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

After running a three-store pilot approximately one year ago, home improvement and appliance chain Lowe’s has announced news it will partner with software-powered electronics retailer b8ta to launch its “Smart Home powered by b8ta” connected-home shopping experience. Smart Home powered by b8ta is available in select major U.S.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then.

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JULY 23, 2020

It’s just sort of like nonstandard versions of food that traditional retailers either are not able to buy or refuse to buy.”. Those “misfts” have helped this Philadelphia-based, 2-year-old startup turn “rescued” produce into a fast-growing online grocery platform. So we see things that are too small or too large.

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JULY 3, 2019

Among the more interesting storylines of this era of digital commerce and payments is the maturation of vending machines — sorry, “unattended retail.” Look to the Ritz-Carlton in Philadelphia for the freshest evidence of that. The eCommerce retailer reportedly plans to install 100 kiosks in malls across India by the end of 2019.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

For retailers, it’s the Hunger Games. largest eCommerce marketplace is that it can devalue merchants and entire brands by overly discounting their items. The move comes as Amazon is making changes in other areas of its sprawling retail business. For consumers, the holiday shopping season is the most wonderful time of year.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

Those two retail trends have recently collided in Southeast Asia, where Carro, an automotive marketplace and financing provider, reportedly has bought Jualo, an online marketplace for used goods from some 300 product categories. The trend is not confined to famous automotive luxury brands, either. Toyota’s Move.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The first big news over the wires was official confirmation that the eCommerce giant will open an Amazon branded grocery store next year in California. Additional locations are reportedly being considered for Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles. The move ends a two-year eCommerce partnership between the two brands.

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MARCH 11, 2020

billion, on an 82 percent increase in retail sales. That is the most organic growth of any automotive retailer ever in the U.S. According to Carvana Chief Brand Officer Ryan Keeton, opening new markets brings an uptick in overall business. “We Apparently that will get you in trouble on the Street. New Markets. Ontario (L.A.),

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

“Consumers have begun to care more about sustainability and excessive packaging, but there is also the sweeping success of trendy and not-at-all sustainable celebrity-backed brands. I founded the company to tell stories about brands that were creating products that are exceptionally clean.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2018

The service will run in partnership with Mercedes-Benz dealers and will launch as a pilot in June in Nashville and Philadelphia. We engage people with a brand that they usually wouldn’t,” Zellmer said. We’re conquesting a target group, and engaging them with a brand, who do not want to commit to a three-year lease.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Sometime brands hit it lucky, sometimes a very concerted marketing effort makes all the difference — but what flavors define a food trend have heretofore mostly been mysterious. But Tastewise, an Israeli startup, thinks it can fill in the holes here — and actually use data to figure out the consumer palate and possibly where it is going next.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

The latest issue involves eSports – one of the rising trends in digital commerce , and one of the ways through which some mall and brick-and-mortar operators hope to revive those retail properties. The issue isn’t really about brand-new taxes, but is about enforcing existing tax laws and applying them to eSports. The Wayfair Impact.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Trips to Whole Foods in September were down 25 percent from a year earlier, according to Placer.ai, which gathers estimates of retail foot traffic from about 30 million mobile devices. Of the eight brands analyzed, only three saw year-over-year declines in August 2020. That number follows a 22 percent drop year over year for August.

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MARCH 5, 2019

That “Game of Thrones” has spawned in its wake a host of retail concepts and products in unsurprising — where there is success, there is merchandise, and there is no shortage of GoT branded items out there. It is an opportunity to create an entire retailing event.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Most people know some version of an apocryphal legend about how retailers need the holiday shopping season to get their sales “into the black,” and Black Friday is named for the beginning of the profitable season. As with many things commerce and retail these days, Amazon can rightly be held responsible for setting the pace.

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MARCH 15, 2019

However, even as the use of cash declines, there is mounting evidence that it’s not going anywhere, whether it be the ongoing political backlash to the concept of a cashless retail economy or merely the realization among many consumers that using cash instead of credit cards is a better way to keep from sinking into debt.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

That said, mobile order-ahead apps — as can be the case generally when comes to many types of retail innovations — have lower adoption among smaller QSRs. More than 400 Dunkin’ restaurants throughout New York City’s five boroughs are now offering delivery through Seamless, Grubhub’s New York brand. Mobile-Order Ahead.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

We are also expanding into retail partnerships as a “last mile” service. By promoting and offering in-store access to the Truxx service, retailers drive sales by conveniently solving a problem for customers for no additional cost. TruxxRetail is for pickups at a partner retail location. TruxxMe is driver-only.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Boston, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. For food, they want to see the brands and the products and confirm they will be fresh and quality. The world’s largest retailer announced it has acquired the crowdsourced, on-demand delivery marketplace Cornershop for $225 million. are reportedly next on the list of expansions.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Lots of brands include exotic-sounding ingredients, the report notes, not in such small amounts that they likely have no nutritional impact. They are very careful about the brands they select to work with, and we felt like they would do a great job at helping protect our brand.”.

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JUNE 20, 2019

At the same time, he noted that they increase speed of service, access, and convenience for the restaurant’s guests while also driving digital sales and building more love for the brand. Over 400 Dunkin’ restaurants throughout the five boroughs of New York City are now offering delivery through Seamless, Grubhub’s New York brand.

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MAY 10, 2017

Philadelphia, Penn.; According to Larry Hambro, vice president, brand operations, Hawthorn Suites, consumers’ lives are increasingly oriented around having what they want available to them at the tap of their phone – and that there is not reason for that to change just because a guest is traveling. Hartford, Conn.;

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