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MAY 13, 2019

In the unattended retail space, vending operators are also becoming more aware of the shifting behaviors of their shoppers and the need for swift and digital payment options. That smaller size opens up whole new markets, and gains access to spaces that have never had a retail experience [as] a part of it.”.

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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. percent of Q2 2020 rent as of the end of June.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

Tiffany added that operating earnings “increased approximately 25 percent from the comparable 2019 period," and that "globally, eCommerce sales continued to show strong growth, nearly doubling in the two-month period from the comparable period in 2019 and representing 13 percent of total net sales year to date through Sept.

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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. And in retailer news, there is an increasing push to integrate Alexa into the purchase path.

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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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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

DECEMBER 6, 2019

And groups such as LVMH are also investing in retail ventures. From acquisitions to new or revamped brick-and-mortar stores, beauty, as well as cosmetic brands, are taking steps to evolve their retail operations. Glossier is opening temporary shops in Nordstrom stores, including the retailer’s New York flagship.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2019

Unattended retail is having a moment – a bad moment, as it turns out, in China, according to reports. The challenges there come as kiosks and other forms of unattended retail continue to develop globally. For one, selling fresh groceries via unattended retail is not an easy business. Unattended Failure. Global Growth.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

Webrooming, before the pandemic, was a full-on retailing trend. But as the pandemic-driven digital shift gains traction, retailers have to be wondering if consumers will use websites to comparison shop for brick-and-mortar retail (webrooming) or whether they’ll go back to shopping retail to order online (showrooming).

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PYMNTS

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

MARCH 16, 2017

car insurance comparison tool that’s now being made available via Facebook Messenger. Removing the shackles of the traditional 9-to-5 hours typical of a telecommunications customer service center, chatbots seem to be leading the charge for a business operations revolution. Through its $4.6

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

Hot on their trail are machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) technology — the software and algorithms promising to reduce the risks of overstocking and understocking, and providing other benefits that can boost retailers’ revenue. Depending on what predictions you believe, most retail warehouses could be fully automated by 2030.

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PYMNTS

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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AUGUST 16, 2016

The business of retail apps is booming. And 303 of the world’s top 500 retailers now have an app. The study, conducted by ARC from Applause, a research group that analyzes the apps economy, looked at 50 of those top retailers that received approximately half of their total sales through mobile apps. billion from $35.48

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

In retail these days, it’s all about the ecosystem, and it’s also sometimes about rewards and discounts. The platform works with more than 30,000 retailers in all shopping categories. and works with products from five major retailers: Best Buy , eBay , Amazon , Walmart and The Home Depot. Amazon Focus.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2019

That is, retailers are taking a page out of a playbook set by retailers like the now-closed B. Saks Fifth Avenue is one of the retailers falling into this trend with a new eatery called L’Avenue at Saks in New York City, which is the same locale where Lord & Taylor is closing to make way for a WeWork headquarters.

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JUNE 18, 2020

The company operates almost 1,000 retail stores under names like DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse and The Shoe Company. percent for the first quarter of 2020, in comparison to a 3 percent rise in the same quarter of fiscal 2019, according to an announcement. .” In separate news, retailer Express Inc. percent to $482.8

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

For those who haven’t seen the news earlier this week, here’s what happened: Amazon reported that its online B2B operation , which launched in 2015 and is officially called Amazon Business, has achieved more than $10 billion in annualized sales — with more than half of those sales coming from third-party sellers using the company’s platform.

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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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MARCH 20, 2019

From SPOT to Starbucks , online platforms and retailers are providing consumers with new ways to place orders or make purchases from the car. company-operated transactions. By comparison, mobile ordering and payment accounted for 9 percent of those transactions in the fiscal third quarter of 2017. Currently, 58.7 times a year.

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JULY 16, 2020

The gloves are off in the retail landlord leasing battle, with Simon Property Group now suing mall tenants who aren’t paying their rent. On Tuesday (July 14), the country’s biggest retail real estate investment trust filed a lawsuit against Eddie Bauer for $6.2 Other retail real estate analysts are a bit more optimistic.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

According to a press release, the Texas-based airline is launching what it calls “Flagship Cellars,” a joint venture with online wine retailer Vinesse that will offer home delivery of a specially curated menu of selections normally only sold to its super-premium Flagship passengers. “We million per day. Tough Times, New Thinking. “We

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Klarna , a payment solutions provider, has acquired PriceRunner , a shopping price comparison platform, for $124.4M. products from 22,500 retailers across 25 countries. PriceRunner operates in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and the UK. The company operates in 17 countries and is supported by a team of over 4,000 employees.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2019

The golden age of product reviews and price comparisons. That’s the story told in a new PYMNTS interview with Jason Hardy, chief operating officer at AgeChecker.Net. Retailers are trying to stay ahead of the curve, and are sometimes on their own raising the minimum age to 21. The golden age of delivery and quick fulfillment.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Retailers are aiming to help consumers manage chronic diseases as well as their overall health and wellness through new brick-and-mortar experiences. Through HealthHUBs, consumers are at the center of an unmatched retail health experience. CVS Health, however, is not the only retailer to bolster its health offerings.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

For instance, shares of Brinker International, which operates or franchises about 1,600 Chili’s Grill and Bar locations and other eateries, were up 15 percent as of midday Monday. Shares of Domino’s Pizza , which operates 17,000 stores, and Papa John’s International, which has about 5,500 pizza shops, were both down about 5.5

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JUNE 12, 2019

Azoulai continued, “Goodwill prioritizes sustainability over ownership, and we’re proud to bolster their rapidly growing eCommerce operations by making it easier for people to purchase items from across the country.”. Price Comparison Shopping.

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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. 23 that is scheduled for operation through October.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Increased retail trading activity has also boosted interest in early-stage SPAC targets. Many firms, among them less established ones, perhaps with rocky operating histories ahead of them, may garner SPAC interest if valuations continue to be stretched, as markets soar higher. equity strategy, said in a note quoted by the site.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2019

cities, an effort that comes as the eCommerce operator continues to make the most of its Whole Foods acquisition. As PYMNTS data shows in depth, Amazon has a lot of room to grow in grocery, to gain ground on competitors and work toward the type of relative dominance it has in other retail categories. percent share of U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2018

26 ,with products from the eCommerce operator averaging nearly 14 percent lower than competing retailers including Walmart and Target, according to an analysis from Profitero. You can thank increasingly sophisticated algorithms for much of that, along with the increasingly fierce nature of online retail competition.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

That look has many of those same pundits now fretting over how to value both adequately, since apple-to-apple comparisons, they say, are hard. And they are – mostly because there’s not an apple-to-apple comparison to be made. million drivers and operations in 300 cities. A Single Focus. The company reports 30.7

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

To aid in that pursuit, Mallzee created a digital mall where consumers can compare scores of retail brands. However, Mallzee offers its retailers more than just a space to sell their wares. Retail data mining operations of the past, he noted, suffered from the weakness of “not really bring[ing] in other data sources.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2018

operates more than 65,000 stores in 18 countries worldwide. Grocery stores, by comparison, have gross margins of 27 percent. Enter Amazon Go, a brick-and-mortar convenience store the eCommerce retailer opened last week in Seattle. And so, the company’s other stores followed suit. Seven & i Holdings Co., Eleven, Inc.,

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JANUARY 11, 2019

But consolidation looms, according to some observers, and online food delivery services will eventually have to shift more focus away from consumers and toward restaurant operators in order to thrive in a crowded marketplace. Meanwhile, the eCommerce operator and logistics heavyweight continues investing in its delivery fleet.

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MARCH 19, 2018

Amazon Go operates in a very controlled space with a very controlled population of customers. Yang told PYMNTS how AiFi aims to do this, with the goal of making artificial intelligence (AI) as ubiquitous in retail as WiFi. The average retailer doesn’t have the flexibility to do that, said Yang. The Limits of Amazon Go.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In comparison, California ‘s marijuana market has struggled since sales began in January 2018. These businesses handle significant economic activity, yet they are forced to operate under the table and with little government oversight, as if they’re a black market operation,” said State Sen.

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