PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

22) the Justice Department unsealed an indictment —spanning 252 counts — against 80 defendants for alleged online scams that bilked firms and individuals of tens of millions of dollars. Late this past week, on Thursday (Aug. As reported, many of those indicted are Nigerian nationals. The indictment was unsealed by the U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2020

Walmart is selling two of its online brands in a continuing goal to concentrate on its website. Last fall, Walmart sold ModCloth , a vintage-inspired women’s clothing, shoes, handbags and accessories eTailer, to Go Global Retail , a Los Angeles investment platform that invests in fashion and retail, for an undisclosed amount.

Los Angeles 144

Los Angeles Branding Arkansas Retail 144

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Earlier in the week it was reported that the Los Angeles police department arrested a criminal gang composed of three teenage boys and one of their mothers in connection with a string of high-profile robberies. The trio allegedly had just robbed the home of Los Angeles Rams receiver Robert Woods. Pokora” Tota.

Los Angeles 148

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

The firm evolved into an online shopping website with a warehouse and delivery network in 2017. The company provides its offering in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Seattle. South Korean investment company Mirae-Naver and Alibaba, the Chinese online shopping giant, led the round of funding.

Los Angeles 143

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2018

As restaurant operators seek to bolster sales in the face of weak traffic growth, Yum! The new rollout will include cities such as Tucson, Prescott and Winslow in Arizona, and Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Sacramento and Santa Barbara in California. As it stands, over 1,700 Pizza Hut locations in the U.S. have liquor licenses.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

As restaurants continue to wrestle with the questions that come with food delivery — how to make enough money, whether to work with third-party operators, how to manage customer relationships — a new factor is gaining significance. Keatz already operators ten “ghost” kitchens in Europe. Keatz reportedly has raised about $13.5

Los Angeles 166

Los Angeles Operations Trends Industry 166

PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

News comes that, as reported in This Just In, Amazon’s shipping and logistics service is operational, at least in part. The shipping service is operational for sellers that have warehouses in the greater Los Angeles, New York/New Jersey and Chicago areas. And now, the last mile gets a bit more crowded. billion in 2018.

Los Angeles 124

Los Angeles New Jersey Chicago New York 124

PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2018

Amazon has had and still has its impact, of course, having bought Whole Foods and helping to send companies such as Kroger and Walmart into the meal kit market and to their own online delivery models, scrambling to get clicks and online sales. Shipt is joining Peapod and Instacart. Refreshing the Delivery Model – Literally.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2020

Not only have retail sales shifted online, but more consumers are buying more of what they want directly from the brand. Six in 10 consumers are shopping more online and less in stores than they did before the pandemic. Six in 10 consumers are shopping more online and less in stores than they did before the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

According to Bloomberg , the site is under construction on Topanga Canyon Boulevard in Woodland Hills, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, and documents filed with the city show the new location is more like a traditional big box supermarket than a high-tech, high-priced Amazon location. The latter operates without human cashiers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

Sondhi said that, when looking at omnichannel in practice today, it consists of consumers researching an item online, then going into a store and talking to salespeople, or just using their smartphones in the store to research the item there. Omnichannel is still clunky,” Sondhi told PYMNTS. Use Cases In Different Places.

Los Angeles 183

Los Angeles Online Data Retail 183

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

949 gigabytes of confidential data have been accessed by ransomware attackers targeting IT distributor Ma Labs , reports in CRN said, an attack that has stalled the company's operations and left its customers in limbo. million was siphoned from one New Zealand business in a scam linked to invoice fraud. According to Stuff.co.nz

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MAY 20, 2020

restaurants have permanently shuttered operations, and more than 110,000 anticipated closing their doors in April, according to recent estimates from the National Restaurant Association. Many eateries are thus reimagining their operations to offer guests touch-free ordering and payment experiences. Approximately 30,000 U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

The Ship-to-Store feature will be available in 47 Sears Auto Centers in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. We needed liquidity; I’ve provided it, but we can’t operate if we don’t have the necessary liquidity.”.

Los Angeles 102

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PYMNTS

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. SPOT serves cities including Los Angeles, Miami and Philadelphia, per a report last year. company-operated transactions. percent – of commuters – who did the same in 2017.

Los Angeles 183

Los Angeles Retail Philadelphia Miami 183

PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

Generally speaking, businesses that sense more demand on the horizon will ramp up operations and will, conceivably, ramp up staff to boost output to meet that demand. PYMNTS found that 71 percent use online channels, 68 percent use physical stores, 66 percent use the telephone and 59 percent use marketplaces.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Landlords at popular malls are warning that income is going to continue to slow down as more people continue to shop online instead of at brick-and-mortar locations. . which owns The Mall at Short Hills in New Jersey and the Beverly Center in Los Angeles. a share, from an earlier range of $7.04

Retail 132

Retail Los Angeles New Jersey Pennsylvania 132

PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2017

With the low cost of operation, businesses like Public Storage and other storage facilities have seen $538 million in revenue for booking units for the first three months of 2017. The cost to operate these new storage industry leases is a fraction of the profits at just $149 million.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

The needs of children are a driving force for online and mobile innovation and disruption. It’s not exactly unusual these days, of course, to find multiple eyeglass options online for both adults and children – the purchase of glasses was traditionally an expensive and friction-filled process before the spread of online sales.

Mobile 153

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2017

Just as recent as this January , ethereum-based blockchain technology company adChain partnered up with decentralized application studio ConsenSys with the goal of specifically developing a blockchain solution for the online advertising industry.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

The company also opened a permanent store in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California last year. The brand’s new digs in the Big Apple, however, will be somewhat different than its brick-and-mortar location in Los Angeles. to pick up online purchases via curbside services.

New York 116

New York Los Angeles Retail New York City 116

PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

News comes that, as reported in This Just In, Amazon’s shipping and logistics service is operational, at least in part. The shipping service is operational for sellers that have warehouses in greater Los Angeles, New York/New Jersey and Chicago areas. From online commerce to contactless commerce through Amazon Go.

Los Angeles 100

Los Angeles New Jersey Chicago New York 100

PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

That’s driven dealers and automakers to rewrite their business strategies with an eye toward creating new digital-sales tools that offer consumers more personalized, online services. The people that [bought online] thoroughly enjoyed it, but right after that, they went to the old way of doing business,” Sullivan said.

Los Angeles 135

Los Angeles Online Digital Strategies Strategy 135

PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

In a press release , the two firms stated that the new extension has MasterCard operating as the presenting sponsorship, with a pact beginning with the 2016 All-Star Game. In addition to the expansion, MLB has integrated MasterPass as a conduit for payments on its online store or app.

Los Angeles 100

Los Angeles New York Online Branding 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In a twist on contemporary retail trends toward online channels, consumers still largely prefer to return in-store. The easiest way to describe what we do,” said David Sobie, CEO of Happy Returns , “is that we’re the buy online, return to store option for retailers that don’t have stores.”. and Houston. and Houston.

Los Angeles 107

Los Angeles San Francisco Retail New York City 107

PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

The pandemic’s onset triggered a mass migration of consumers to online channels to meet their everyday shopping needs, with merchants following suit. Los Angeles-based logistics online marketplace Cargomatic is one firm that saw supply chain conversion accelerate immediately with the pandemic-induced surge in online sales.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2016

An online-only grocery store has expanded its potential base of health food shoppers. TechCrunch reports that, yesterday (April 6), Thrive Market launched a version of its app — previously only available on iOS — for the Android platform.

Los Angeles 100

Los Angeles Marketing Comparison Retail 100

PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

Inaccurate addresses, in particular, can be a huge strain, resulting in failed deliveries, inefficient operations and poor communication with customers. He said that the growth of online banking and the need to protect personal data makes the banking sector’s failure to use geolocation information almost inexplicable.

Los Angeles 148

Los Angeles Survey Data Retail 148

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Ripco Real Estate Principal and Chief Operating Officer Mark Kaplan told CNBC that retailers can attract shoppers from online retailers “if the in-store experience offers something more.” The atmosphere comes as brick-and-mortar retailers have to differentiate themselves from their eCommerce counterparts.

Retail 166

Retail US New York City Los Angeles 166

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Maxx, is “growing steadily” in the words of the Los Angeles Times , and has brought in $36 billion in yearly sales. But even in an age where online retail sales are set to exceed $700 billion by 2022, analysts believe that only roughly 2 percent of TJX’s sales are made via eCommerce channels.

Retail 170

Retail Los Angeles Trends Branding 170

PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2019

Taziki’s Mediterranean Café , for instance, has seen its online and to-go orders increase by 200 percent over the past three years. These are just some of the ways that QSRs have recently sought to reinvent their mobile and online ordering experiences to encourage diners skip the line and order ahead: The total number of U.K.

Los Angeles 158

Los Angeles San Francisco Mobile DC 158

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

FedEx, which had announced shipping surcharges recently, is dealing with the capacity crisis by closing on its deal to acquire ShopRunner , which directly connects brands and merchants with online shoppers. in a statement. “We The report said the 2020 holiday season delay rates could be double the delays of past years.

Los Angeles 157

Los Angeles Branding Retail New York 157

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2017

25), 10 Kohl’s locations in Los Angeles and Chicago will be selling Amazon smart home devices and accepting Amazon returns in stores, CNBC recently reported. Amazon products will be sold through kiosks operated entirely by the online retailer, Gass said. Kohl’s employees will be performing Amazon’s online returns.

Los Angeles 100

Los Angeles Chicago Retail Examples 100

PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2017

BCBG announced plans to close stores and restructure the company due to mounting pressure from its debt burden and more consumers opting to shop online. The global fashion brand has operated more than 570 boutiques, including more than 175 in the U.S. told Bloomberg in an emailed statement.

Los Angeles 100

Los Angeles Retail Branding Operations 100

PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2016

Just when it looked like online-only brands would take every last penny of brick-and-mortar retailers’ lunch money, digital merchants started opening up B&M store fronts like it was the newest fad in town. With any luck, the gaming tournaments and celebrity appearances that have put the L.A.

Los Angeles 100

Los Angeles Retail Online Branding 100

PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2016

Staples announced on Tuesday (June 14) that it had officially launched its “Staples Rush” program that provides same-day delivery service to a handful of metropolitan areas, including parts of Boston, Dallas and Manhattan, with Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle to come.

Los Angeles 100

Los Angeles San Francisco Houston Dallas 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

Traditional retail locations, ranging from fashion and home furnishings to hardware and department stores, have been forced to make significant changes in the face of heightened competition from eCommerce giants like Amazon and omnichannel powerhouses, like Walmart and its online unit, Jet.com.

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