PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

It may be half a world away, but the belated and successful initial public offering (IPO) of Australia’s largest online bookseller this week has sent investors and industry watchers alike scrambling to figure out exactly what the heck is going on in an industry that has seen more than its share of ups and downs in recent years.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2020

In a 2019 PYMNTS eBook much like this, we made predictions for eCommerce in 2020 and the next decade. With an unprecedented number of physical locations closed, brick-and-mortar retail and restaurants needed to adapt quickly in order to stay open. Opportunities: New Channels of eCommerce.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of…” eBook. Use of technology in retail is no longer a trend, evidenced by a proliferation of solutions in 2016. Download the eBook.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

EMarketer reported a quarter of those people surveyed purchased travel or transportation from cross-border eCommerce sites, and close to as many purchased digital entertainment and education items, such as eBooks and digital music. As a result, eMarketer is forecasting that retail eCommerce sales worldwide will hit $1.9

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

Amazon’s piece of the retail pie is expected to end the year even bigger, with market research firm eMarketer boosting its estimates on dollars spent at the eCommerce giant. When considering all retail sales, eMarketer said Amazon accounts for close to 4 percent of all retail transactions in the United States. percent to $452.8

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Even traditionally offline retailers such as Walmart have to expand their omnichannel offerings to reach consumers. The retailer’s innovations come as 55 percent of customers shop both in-store and online, according to the PYMNTS Omni Usage Index. It requires no employee direction at all and, of course, no in-store shopping.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

In August, Walmart announced another partnership with the launch of its eBook service, Walmart eBooks by Rakuten Kobo, which provides customers with access to an all-new digital catalog of books in-store and online. Additionally, Walmart is selling the eReaders online. With a $9.99

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

The eCommerce retailer is said to be working with Catamaran and has started hiring workers for the operation per unnamed sources, Reuters reported. And, while the rising middle class of India has brought growth of the online food delivery sector, profitability is said to remain “elusive” per the report.

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MARCH 19, 2018

Credit card skimmers are a headache for fuel retailers, but there is more than one way that fraudulent actors can target fleet spend. These crimes certainly harm corporate spenders, but also expose issuers, acquirers and fuel retailers to security threats. commercial fleet sales manager Scott McGregor in a statement at the time.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

market today, accounting for over 90 percent of eBooks and audiobooks, and around 42 to 45 percent of print sales. But eCommerce startup Bookshop has decided to do exactly that – despite the fact that Amazon is the biggest force in book sales in the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Many long assumed that a great digital transformation of reading widely forecast about a decade ago would lead to an increase in eBooks. Unfortunately, printing companies decided years ago to stop investing in book printing on the assumption that eBooks would surpass that, the Times said.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of…” eBook. Omnichannel is no longer a trend or a prediction — it’s the new retail reality. All these elements are still absolutely key to tomorrow’s retail landscape.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Matt Redwood, head of self-service at Diebold Nixdorf , contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ 2018 year-end eBook. There has been an assumption that if SCO is installed, customers will use it, and the retailers will shave costs. This couldn’t be further from the truth. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

More practically, this means the consumer can buy and access Oprah Book Club selections via the Apple Books service (both eBooks and audiobooks), and Apple TV will feature the famous former talk show host out of Chicago interviewing authors. Streaming is by far the most common subscription service (70 percent), while online games (30.6

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

From selling a record number of Echo family devices , to beating out traditional retailers , to grabbing the attention of those last-minute shoppers , Amazon has had nothing short of a successful holiday season. The special day will feature and offer exclusive sales on digital content.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2016

The biggest question around Amazon’s Seattle brick-and-mortar bookstore — as well as the upcoming second location in San Diego — remains a philosophical one: Why would an online retailer that already sells books need to put up with the hassle of running a physical store?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

At the time, the retailer said it would leverage its stores and Shipt’s proprietary technology platform and community of shoppers to bring same-day delivery to Target customers around the country. But not all retailers are moving as fast as Target. In fact, retailers, overall, only saw a 37.9 But some retailers lead the pack.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

“Given the seismic shift to digital, the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing retail to achieve innovation in three to six months that would otherwise have taken three to five years. Online businesses need to be flexible in providing various ways customers can buy, and sticky.io Payments need to go where consumers expect them now, too.”.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

More practically, this means the consumer can buy and access Oprah Book Club selections via the Apple Books service (both eBooks and audiobooks), and Apple TV will feature the famous former talk show host out of Chicago interviewing authors. Streaming is by far the most common subscription service (70 percent), while online games (30.6

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2017

Most people have at least heard of mobile wallets at this point — driven in part to the ever-lengthening list of retailers that are offering them in some form or other. Retailers are] seeing it not just as a process to be managed, but as an opportunity. Merchants are thinking about mobile wallets. Or they can adopt a phased approach.”.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Carleigh Jaques, SVP, global head of merchant digital products at Visa , contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ 2018 year-end eBook. To deliver on customer expectations, merchants need solutions that work across online, mobile, and physical environments to provide fully integrated commerce solutions at scale.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

Amazon is gearing up to roll out kiosks in India that will enable consumers to purchase its hardware including its Kindle eBook reader, Echo, its smart speaker, and the Fire TV stick. The kiosks could be the early stage of Amazon creating more of a physical retail presence in the country.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2016

The massive online retailer’s Japanese offices were reportedly raided based on “suspicion of pressuring retailers to offer products at lower prices than on rival sites,” according to Reuters. Amazon may be in a bit of hot water in Japan. The news was first reported on Monday (Aug.

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JULY 12, 2018

According to FT reports, Walmart has been approaching bankers to explore an exit by sale from Japan, as the international retail giant is seeking to divest itself of the struggling Seiyu supermarket chain. The Japanese market for mass merchandisers fell 6 percent in retail value to ¥6.7

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APRIL 17, 2020

Payoneer worked with online sellers to help them identify new suppliers, infrastructure partners and routes. On the one hand, it’s clear that many consumers are avoiding retail stores and are instead shopping online. There are also theories that people could increase online shopping, as they’re sitting at home with little to do.

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JULY 16, 2019

Streaming is by far the most common subscription service (70 percent), while online games (30.6 The online gaming market is valued at approximately $15.3 Generation X also spent the most on digital media subscriptions ($3 billion) and online gaming ($5.3 percent) and online gaming (83.3 percent) and digital media (27.7

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

A Year of Innovation in the Face of Adversity Digital and omnichannel consumer journeys have accelerated during 2020, as click and collect, buy online pick up in-store (BOPIS), and contactless payments and touch-free shopping have all seen an enormous boost this year. 2021 is likely to be the year when omnicommerce moves from hype to reality.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

MercadoLibre users in Brazil and Mexico will now be able to use PayPal for online checkout at merchants integrated with Mercado Pago, dubbed the “eBay of Latin America.”. 52 Mondays 2019 is an eBook that features all of Webster’s commentaries — a look back at her take on the payments and commerce landscape as it unfolded.

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OCTOBER 2, 2020

Amazon has reportedly debuted the newest contactless way to make a payment at checkout through its Amazon One offering, which allows users to make a payment with a palm at some of its retail locations. 34 Payments Execs Weigh In On Payments, The Pandemic And New Possibilities (Q3 eBook). Target Pilots Buy Now, Pay Later With Sezzle.

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DECEMBER 28, 2018

Mike Camerling, CEO of AEVI , contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ 2018 year-end eBook. Where those strategies will lead is still unclear to many, but no one can afford to ignore the changes that eCommerce has brought to traditional brick-and-mortar retail.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2019

That Amazon, by the numbers, is a massive force in retail and consumer spending is not much of a news item. retail spending (and growing) and its ongoing war with Walmart for ever greater levels of control are the reason this entire tracker exists. Amazon has noted that Walmart, the biggest retailer in the U.S. It has a 6.3

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

They know payments can be smooth, fast and invisible – because, as Cambridge Global Payments COO Mark Frey pointed out, they have been riding in Ubers and booking through Airbnb for over a decade.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

With the shift to online shopping greater than ever, businesses were forced to convert to online. Even as they converted to online payment transactions, they faced yet another major challenge: online payment fraud. retailers incur $3.13 retailers incur $3.13 of costs.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

Visa , meanwhile, will be establishing virtual payment relationships through its network of retailers and providing secure authentication capabilities. Said points can then be applied toward discounts or freebies from retailers. It’s something retailers don’t get to see — that ‘last mile’ to their retail destination.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2018

As those devices communicate more efficiently with each other, and enable a range of commerce- and payment-related tasks (such as personalized advertising, anticipating retail purchases, automated ordering and bill settlements), the security risks will evolve and grow. All those connected devices will, by 2025, represent an estimated $6.2

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JUNE 11, 2019

Being early is a huge advantage on Amazon, as it was on Facebook in 2012,” Meeker told Modern Retail. The Amazon experience itself is designed around a series of sub-memberships and subscriptions undergirding that Prime offering – like Unlimited for eBooks, or Subscribe and Save for lower-margin replenishment household staples.

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JUNE 22, 2017

The company recently published a new eBook , Managing The Risk Of Fraud: The View From Corporate Finance, in which Vesta and CFO Research surveyed 155 senior-level finance executives in the U.S. billion in fraud losses incurred by retailers in 2016 alone, a figure representing 5.7 Citing Nielsen Report statistics, Vesta noted $16.3

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