PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

Back in late March when the pandemic first started to lock down retailing, PYMNTS published the first in a series of tracking reports showing clear evidence that the overwhelming factor in economic recovery would be one thing: COVID-19 and the ability to mitigate its effects. Again, that scenario is playing out this week. percent increase.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

With Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s plan to open the state again, shops will start running on a retail-to-go basis Friday (April 24). Owners of business are aiming to operate with the new changes — from a children’s retail shop to a music store, according to a News4SA report. In another part of the country, Georgia Gov.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

“If we were to convert a Neiman’s and put a tech company in there with 2,000 employees, the traffic generated from incremental office space would bring much more business to the retailers down below than a different department store,” Blau said during a webcast on Wednesday, the news service reported. Blau isn’t just talking theory.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

District Court for the Northern District of Georgia with fraudulently obtaining more than $4 million in PPP loans. The accused include Darrell Thomas, 34, of Johns Creek, Georgia; Andre Lee Gaines, 66, of Dallas, Georgia; Kahlil Gibran Green Sr., Rabbitt of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. Justice Department.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In the meantime, the digital, mobile, delivery and other innovations that are taking place in this sector are also promising to impact retailers and the consumers who shop not only with mom-and-pop stores but with the bigger chains. The latest example of that comes from one of the biggest retail chains out there — Walmart.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

The retailer is said to have active postings for licensed insurance agents and Medicare sales supervisors that read, “Yes, you read that right, Walmart now has an insurance agency.”. The retailer has also formed a collaboration with an upstart called Capital Rx that offers current information on prescription prices.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 4, 2023

The CFPB has filed a lawsuit in a Georgia federal district court against USASF Servicing (USASF) in which the CFPB alleges that USASF engaged in various unfair acts or practices in violation of the Consumer Financial Protection Act. USASF services retail installment sales contracts (RICs) originated by its affiliate, U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Walmart 's partnership with insurance startup Clover Health to aid Georgia seniors marks the retail giant's foray into privately-managed Medicare Advantage plans, Bloomberg reported. Walmart has been making moves in the healthcare field for some time, including opening clinics in Georgia, Texas, South Carolina, Florida and Arkansas.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are expanding their efforts to provide customers with health and wellness services while taking steps to train their employees for healthcare roles. said in the announcement about the offering, “Walmart aims to be the market leader in providing retail workers a path to careers in growing fields like healthcare.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

To help merchants and other service providers convert more consumers at the point of sale, LendingPoint has unveiled LendingPoint Merchant Solutions, a platform that will provide fully integrated one-stop retail financing, the company said in an announcement.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

4) that it is moving quickly to open three new distribution centers in Georgia over the next 18 months. Retail has changed more in the past four years than in our company’s 40-year history. The largest of the three new Georgia operations, according to Home Depot, is a 657,000-square-foot distribution center in Locust Grove.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2020

began to get its early actual data (as opposed to theoretical predictions) as Alaska, Georgia, North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas and all began lifting some of the stricter parts of the social distancing regulations to allow slightly more social mobility, according to CNN. Retail President Leo Wiener told Bisnow. “I’ve

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The news comes as Walmart is aiming to take its expertise at developing retail stores and lowering costs and apply it to improving the health sector. The retailer has been slowly entering healthcare services, running low-cost clinics in South Carolina, Georgia and Texas.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2020

The world of retail might not be quite getting back to normal, but people are starting to pick up some pieces of their old day-to-day lives again. A few big-ticket purchases of digital apparel retailers like ModCloth and Bonobos didn’t turn out as planned. Those items are available for purchase, but are being stored in a secure room.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2020

There are already four such clinics, with three in Georgia and one in Arkansas. The retail giant is also looking at opening clinics in the Jacksonville area of Florida, and it will open two clinics in Chicago, which would bring the total number of Walmart clinics to 13.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 9, 2018

For Lasha Gurgenidze at Tbilisi, Georgia-based TBC Bank, this mandate combined with low operational costs were the two fundamentals he and his team followed in launching TBC’s digital-first Space Neobank. “We For a digital bank, time to market is one of the most important innovation mandates.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

“A granular look at the data shows there were mixed results at the eight malls, which are located in eight of the states that reopened, including Texas, Indiana, Georgia and Tennessee,” according to Placer. “At according to Simon Johnstone, director of retail insights for Kantar, as reported in Winsight Grocery Business.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Sizable blocks of absentee or mail-in ballots remain to be counted in such key states as Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona as of Wednesday afternoon, with the count in the Keystone State not expected to be done until Friday, if not later.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

Walmart has reduced its workforce by laying off hundreds in its logistics, real estate and retail location planning divisions as it simplifies its business and reduces its expenses, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources. Four such clinics currently exist: one in Arkansas and three in Georgia.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Santa: The Original Experiential Retail Strategy. Santa showing up in retail marketing, as far as historians can tell, dates back to the 1840s when some stores went as far as putting up life-sized models of jolly old St. And while much has changed in retail, Santa’s popularity has not. In fact, it is growing.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

After opening retail locations in four states, Kohl’s said it intends to open stores in 10 more states on Monday (May 11) as it follows a phased approach to retail reopening. The company said in an announcement that it will also open further retail locations in the weeks to come with “the same deliberate, measured approach.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

Demand continues to outpace supply, but we are working diligently to get products to our retailers as fast as humanly possible … We are prioritizing our bestselling sizes to maximize the amount of product we can ship to retailers, and we remain focused on making sure our products are available.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2016

By and large, things are not great for retail (particularly of the brick-and-mortar variety). Indeed, it’s popular — dare we say, trendy, even — to postulate that retail as we know it is doomed. And if doing so can increase profits — as has been the case with Sheetz — that could stand as a pretty solid example for other retailers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

Retail and hospitality technology firm NCR Corporation is looking to acquire ATM operator Cardtronics for $39 per share, or about $1.7 Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, NCR offers products and services that help businesses interact with their customers. 11) press release. . “The 11) press release. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

26 were in Maryland (3,619), Illinois (3,414) where layoffs in retail and healthcare fueled the number of applications, New Jersey (2,504), Michigan (2,358) and Massachusetts (1,886), while the largest decreases were in Texas (7,075), Florida (6,655), Georgia (5,895), New York (5,112) and Oregon (2,317).

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The initiative starts in the weeks to come throughout ALDI’s over 60 Georgia stores, while it will grow to over 570 retail locations throughout California, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Florida in the months to come. percent of the population in Georgia and disproportionately impacts communities of color.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

The tech company, which has 271 retail shops in the United States, has recently closed 47 stores again, CNBC reported. Locations in California, Alabama, Idaho, Georgia, Oklahoma, Nevada and Louisiana are set to shutter on Thursday, while shops in Mississippi, Texas, Florida and Utah were shuttered as of Wednesday (July 1).

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2020

Aggregated travel patterns compiled from Google users’ phone data compared daily traffic to retail stores, parks, public transportation, supermarkets and jobs from Jan. Foot traffic to retail and recreation locations was down 63 percent on April 12, but by April 26, that number declined to 42 percent.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

When the pandemic first took hold of the retail industry in March and April, the phrase “it’s hard to forecast during a pandemic” was heard in most every executive interview or earnings call. That’s part of the thinking behind Deloitte’s annual holiday retail forecast , released earlier this week. “The economic forecaster. “E-commerce

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

GreenSky: Georgia-based GreenSky is a fintech company that provides buy now, pay later (BNPL) solutions to merchants, enabling them to expand payment options for their customers and increase sales. Goldman Sachs , a financial services firm, acquired GreenSky, a fintech company, for $2.24B in an all-stock transaction.

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The Financial Brand

MAY 13, 2020

Covid-19 comeback: Sampling of financial executives plus views of two Georgia bankers suggests a 'return to normal' will be anything but. The post What Reopening Plans Reveal About Retail Banking’s Future appeared first on The Financial Brand.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

retail and culture, but which these days are often clinging to life thanks to the rise of eCommerce and other factors (including the rise of at-home retail activities and connected commerce, both a recent and ongoing focus of PYMNTS research ). The gaming part of the mall will reside alongside some 200 retail stores there.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

retailers instantaneously get funds for card transactions with actual fund availability depending on receiving bank and geographic area, according to a Thursday (Sept. In April, news surfaced that KyckGlobal , which is based in Georgia, is working with Visa to bolster the utilization of “push payments” to companies.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

“This natural partnership will enable both Skip and Paytronix to continue providing a robust value proposition for retail partners and a notable checkout experience for shoppers.”. One of the first retailers to go live with the new integration is Enmarket, which has 125 locations in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The initiative will start rolling out over the next several weeks in Aldi’s 60 Georgia locations. 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. percent of the population. Whole Foods’ New One-Hour Pickups .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

In the meantime, the digital, mobile, delivery and other innovations that are taking place in this sector are also promising to impact retailers and the consumers who shop not only with mom-and-pop stores, but with the bigger chains.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2020

The properties in Texas, Indiana, Alaska, Missouri, Georgia, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Arkansas and Tennessee will not be limited to curbside-pickup reopening like the ones happening in Texas, the report said. Simon is also encouraging retailers to use technology, such as Apple Pay, for contactless transactions.

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