PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

For Main Street businesses, to say 2020 was challenging is an understatement. According to PYMNTS data, more than 60 percent of Main Street firms have at least three channels operating to drive sales: online, at physical stores and mobile. Aid has notably come in from all corners, particularly the card networks.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

One of the more notable differences is their tendency to favor credit cards online and other options such as digital wallets over debit cards. consumers have shifted to digital shopping channels to purchase retail products, a fourfold increase since the start of the pandemic. The report finds that 45 percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

When it comes to online shopping, one of the greatest frustrations for consumers — and friction points for merchants — is having to manually enter credit or debit card information for each purchase. In the latest Mobile Card Services Playbook , a collaboration with Ondot , PYMNTS surveyed more than 9,500 U.S. It’s no wonder that 78.9

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ITMs and VTMs are popular retail banking innovations among community banks. What’s on the horizon for retail banking? According to a new report from PwC titled “Retail Banking 2025 and Beyond” (see sidebar), the retail banking industry is undergoing tremendous change—but, of course, community bankers already know that.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

All eyes may be trained on Wall Street now, and Main Street too as the latest tranche of business lending gets underway. The company also launched a gift card portal in order to help buyers search for and support Square sellers. Card-present volumes were down by 60 percent year over year.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

If your business touches retail in any way, it might pay to follow a few important breadcrumbs. Worse yet, some analysts fear the triggering of break-lease clauses for retailers in malls if anchor stores leave. All of this will only make malls an even tougher sell to consumers, and to retailers that want consumers to buy their stuff.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

In today’s top news, Amazon could be in talks to buy JCPenney, and 4 million stimulus payments will be sent to consumers via Visa prepaid debit cards. Treasury: 4 Million Stimulus Payments To Be Sent Via Visa Prepaid Debit Card. Treasury: 4 Million Stimulus Payments To Be Sent Via Visa Prepaid Debit Card. Here’s what you missed.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Many Main Street SMBs, local restaurants and designer boutiques are doing it for the first time. Capturing and then enabling card-on-file payments when consumers buy the products or services they consume in the physical world. But given the absence of contactless card penetration in the U.S., Gas stations are encouraging it.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

trillion opportunity for eCommerce retailers. Fraudsters are just as excited by this opportunity as merchants, unfortunately, making it essential for these retailers to craft robust protections to keep the data and the payment information of their consumers safe. Around The Next-Gen Debit World.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

We have deep dives on Main Street’s digital shift, ATM innovation and PPP loans. NEW DATA: Inside Main Street SMBs’ Digital Shift. Retailing 2020: Five Things To Watch. Retail Reopening Hinges On Dangerous Discounts. The Flaw In Demonizing Big Tech. SBA reports show that $510.5 Trackers And Reports.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2020

While it’s clear that the digital shift will stick in the retail ecosystem, other elements of the landscape are harder to predict. On March 24, knowing that some kind of government program was being considered, one in four Main Street SMBs didn’t think their businesses would survive the pandemic, and four in 10 said they weren’t sure.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2017

Once upon a time, investors in retail stocks counted cars in parking lots, measured mall foot traffic and kept an eye out for discounts to keep track of what the marketplace really looked like. That credit card data may be distorting the price of retail stocks — and making them oddly volatile. The problem? Today it is 1.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

In today’s top news, the European Central Bank outlines use cases for a digital euro, and Goldman Sachs will buy GM’s credit card business. The European Central Bank says Europe should be ready to adopt a digital euro so residents can access money amid the evolving retail payment landscape. for General Motor's Credit Card Business.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The ascent of eCommerce and the digital tools that support it have made it easier — in both theory and practice — for retailers to not only see how consumers browse and what they buy (to analyze the entire path to purchase), but to get to know them in the same ways as those old-time general store operators who served small towns.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2016

It’s no wonder why retailers love gift cards – they are known to drive foot traffic, increase revenue, boost their customer base and complement retention efforts. But as consumers continue to move toward a digital option for their gift card needs, could a retailer’s dream turn into an actual nightmare?

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2019

That’s when there is generally another point of frustration and friction: checking out after the dental work, perhaps giving over a payment card and signing up for another appointment. In fact, the vast majority of the growth NMI is seeing is happening almost entirely outside of retail. She was able to simply go home. “It

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

In the inaugural QR Code Payments Tracker® , PYMNTS explores the latest in the world of QR codes, including new implementations at retailers and payment providers, the security concerns facing this payment method, and the pandemic’s effect on the development and rollout of QR code-enabled payment options. Retail Environment.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

There seems to be no such thing as a Christmas vacation when one’s main profession is defrauding consumers and businesses. It appears the ever-inventive thieves of the world have found a new way to make gift card fraud work for them this holiday season, according to the Better Business Bureau (BBB).

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2016

To ACI Worldwide ’s top executive, that beckons toward a wholly-changing payments landscape for retailers. In an interview with Karen Webster, Philip Heasley, president and chief executive officer of ACI, stated that the biggest disruptions in retail stem from a changing of the old bricks-and-mortar (and cash register) guard.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2020

What makes the story stand out among the reams of local retail crime reporting is that the crime was actually committed. Botched crimes in local retail are common. Organized Crime’s Physical Retail Expansion . Brown rejected suggestions that it could be a current or past employee, telling local news affiliates, “It was a pro.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2019

When it comes to retail innovation — changes that promise to influence commerce not only this year, but in the 2020s — cameras could have a significant role. This data certainly isn’t nothing, but it pales in comparison to the data troves that digital retailers have. That’s not the only way innovation with cameras can help retailers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Refunds in the hundreds of millions might be in store for retailers with the ruling, the Financial Times reported. Schurder told the FT , “ATMs are part of the retail offer of the stores they are situated in and the VOA should never have treated them as separate businesses. Consumers used their debit cards 13.2 Still, the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

This marks a change for Target — a retailer that had, up to this point, enabled mobile pay only for its own mobile wallet app and the Target-branded REDcard linked to it. That is consistent with what we have seen around the world when it comes to contactless card adoption,” Sanford said. stores over the next several weeks.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

Consumers confronting the COVID-19 outbreak are buying less and saving what they can, and retailers’ revenues are plummeting as a result. Retailers are passing this financial uncertainty onto their vendors, too, forcing many to take drastic measures to stay afloat. percent say they could use their personal credit cards, 25.5

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

But years later, shoppers traded Woolworth’s along with other Main Street stores for locations near the highways. That retailer would be Five Below, which, after opening its doors in 2002, called itself “the Five-and-Dime for the iPod Generation” in a 2011 press release. The New Five-And-Dime Store.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

These three main segments of the Fleet Solution are said to provide better control over operations and increased protection against fraud. Shell employs 8,500 people in India and retails fuel in six states. . The global smart fleet management industry was valued at $290.9 billion in 2016 and is projected to grow at a rate of 7.6

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

As PYMNTS researchers recently wrote, “news of the availability and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines has Main Street SMBs feeling optimistic about their chances of survival, yet uncertainty remains around when things will return to business as usual. Findings support the idea that moods have perceptibly lightened on Main Street.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2019

That’s because cameras are playing a much bigger role in retail, a trend that will keep gaining steam in the new decade. The Associated Press reports that cameras are, at least somewhat quietly, making inroads into a number of retail outlets in a bid to, well, get to know you. are now looking to follow suit.”. Security Cameras.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

To help local companies continue to bring in revenue amid COVID-19 restrictions, Instagram Co-founder Mike Krieger and his wife, Kaitlyn, rolled out a directory of eateries in the Bay Area offering gift cards called SaveOurFaves. Visitors can browse by location or query for restaurants in the region, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

Capital One ’s domestic card loans increased 8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018 , the bank said on Tuesday (Jan. 22) as company executives gave an update of its card deal with Walmart. The financial institution (FI) said that, as of the end of Q4, the domestic card loans ending balance stood at $107.4 percent, down from 2.89

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Retail innovation comes from various places – and for the new decade, that includes quick-service restaurants (QSRs), the site of massive technological change. It is all but certain that in the new decade, QSRs will continue to drive retail innovation. Pickup Windows. The concept is meant to accommodate on-the-go diners.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

The two most powerful forces shaping the future of retail payments have nothing to do with payments at all. It’s a world in which new retail models and new places to shop have emerged to satisfy that need, blending the online and offline worlds in ways that benefit the digital and marginalize the physical – at least as it operates today.

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PYMNTS

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. consumers have largely relied on cards, were comfortable with them as a main purchase tool and the U.S. By contrast, U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2019

And the race to provide such apps – along with better mobile financial and transactional services – is heating up, with fuel coming from such products as Apple Card along with changing consumer preferences. An Apple Card-Like Experience. And there has been at least one early surprise in these infant days of Card App, he said. “We

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2018

.’s construction industry continues to struggle with late supplier payments, a new commercial card product from Barclaycard aims to address some of the cash flow issues among small businesses (SMBs) in the sector. In an email to PYMNTS, Barclaycard announced the rollout of a co-branded commercial card suite for SMBs in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them novel) are only half the battle. To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009. Take payroll cards.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2017

In a report, Business Insider said Costco cards saw more than $52 billion in purchase sales during the first six months of the cards and more than $6 billion in loan growth. branded cards business growth. While Citi is enjoying a lot of growth since taking over the Costco card, it’s also resulting in an increase in costs.

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