Perficient

JUNE 17, 2020

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, retailers were already seeing enthusiasm from customers for more convenient ways to interact during the purchasing process. While some retailers have offered limited order pickup options for some time, this was often limited to certain verticals or a small sub-set of products. The Challenges.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Every year for the last 110 years , members of the retail trade group, known as the National Retail Federation (NRF), have assembled to discuss the slate of issues pertinent to its members. COVID-19, of course, didn’t cause physical retail’s steep decline — it just accelerated it. Retail is now about logistics and the last mile.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 19, 2020

For insights into these questions, Bank Innovation and INV Fintech, its sister banking innovation services platform, will present a special Zoom meeting on […]. How will banks and startups work together?

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South State Correspondent

MARCH 14, 2022

Investors Await Wednesday’s FOMC Meeting. The FOMC meeting that concludes on Wednesday afternoon has the market’s attention, even though a 25bps rate hike is a foregone conclusion. More likely, the Fed will move from three hikes expected at the December meeting to five hikes in 2022. – – – – 2.17.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Despite a recent surge in coronavirus cases, retailers are fighting for a rework and loosening of shopping restrictions before Black Friday and the holiday season. Retailers that sell essential items alongside their other products have been labelled “essential,” giving them an unfair advantage over other stores, some allege.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 16, 2020

EST, Bank Innovation will host a Zoom meeting for subscribers titled “Regulators’ and Financial Institutions’ Pandemic Responses: What Do We Know, What Can We Know, and When Can We Know It?” On Tuesday at 12 p.m.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2020

Current sales are split at 70 percent through the Abingdon site and 30 percent via retail partners that include Amazon and the AAFES , which is the Armed Forces’ retail network. Post-COVID, Mullin and her team have focused on social channels and a fascinating series of Zoom meetings.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

“We are essentially taking glass doors that were probably underutilized and not asking the retailer for any additional physical space.”. From a business standpoint, we believe that things like sales lift are obviously a really important metric,” Dravenstott said, “and you don't hear that much in brick and mortar retail.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 8, 2020

While chip cards are becoming a mainstay at brick-and-mortar retail checkouts, gas pump payment technology lags behind. Visa and Mastercard have given U.S. gas station owners until October of this year to upgrade pumps to accept EMV chip cards, rejecting a deadline extension request from the Merchant Advisory Group.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

From where things stand in Q4 2020 it’s not hard to imagine physical retail going extinct. Noting the ways COVID has permanently changed retailing, CNBC recently reported , “As more and more stores go dark at the mall, some major retail executives are looking to grow outside of it — a tactic they hadn’t touted so publicly before.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

Physical brick-and-mortar retail was suffering long before the pandemic. Highlights include grocery, retail and contactless, he said. In addition, retailers are searching for more flexible fulfillment options spanning online pickup in store, pickup curbside, and a number of variants of that continuum of reaching end customers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

This in a week that has seen news reports that the world’s largest retailer has terminated its contract — and a 3-year-old automated shelf-stocking experiment — with San Francisco’s Bossa Nova Robotics , having found that existing “human” employees were able to do the same work just as well. Not Just Walmart.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

The dramatic consumer shift to Digital 3.0 — predicted months ago by the PYMNTS COVID-19 tracker work — is accounting for almost half of the retail growth in the US. It found that eCommerce growth as of May 1 was up 68 percent, surpassing 40 percent of total retail sales. Overall Chinese retail sales of consumer goods dropped 2.8

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

The retail bankruptcy watch intensified Tuesday (April 21) as the department store sector was hit by reports of yet another major player looking at that option. Lord & Taylor, now joining Neiman Marcus, is considering a bankruptcy filing as the COVID-19 lockdown continues to decimate non-essential retail. billion in sales.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 15, 2018

EXCLUSIVE – Welcome BMO Bolt, Bank of Montreal’s virtual assistant on social media platform Facebook Messenger. The bot, announced today, was created in partnership with conversational banking technology company Finn.AI. BMO customers shouldn't get too excited about handing over control of their financial lives to the bot yet, though.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

Mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) terminals that are enabled for contactless have to meet certain specifications to gain EMVCo 3.0 From CVS to T-Mobile , retailers and technology providers are catering to the trend of contactless payment acceptance with new solutions and methods of handling cards from customers. cities each year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

Google Cloud is rolling out Product Discovery Solutions for Retail, a new suite of services that will use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to help eCommerce firms deliver personalized consumer experiences during a shopping journey’s initial phase. "As Vision API Product Search.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Target’s event, first reported by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, will feature “digital deals on thousands of items, more than double what the retailer offered last year, as it adjusts to the surge of consumers who have shifted to shopping online during the coronavirus pandemic.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Rakuten , a Japanese tech company specializing in digital eCommerce solutions for retailers, is introducing a new subsidiary to bolster physical stores. Tentatively called Rakuten DX, the new unit will launch schemes for digital transformation at retailers’ physical shops, Rakuten said in a statement on Monday (Nov.

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Abrigo

MARCH 21, 2025

The latest CRA framework categorizes banks (CRA requirements are not extended to credit unions) into three tiers based on asset size, with differing compliance requirements: Small banks (assets under $600 million) Can opt-in to the new CRA tests or remain on a streamlined lending test that focuses on retail activities.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Voice recognition could soon play a bigger role in retail — especially in the world of quick service restaurants. That’s not the only recent major move that involves voice recognition and the biometric authentication method’s potential use in retail and payments. That’s the signal sent recently by McDonald’s. Other Moves.

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Perficient

MARCH 3, 2023

In our last blog, How Embedded Finance is Changing Purchasing & Borrowing Behaviors , we looked at embedded payments and loans and why companies would want to offer (increased sales, lower inventory, processing costs, data gathering) these bank-like services.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are doubling down on digital as they look to staff their stores for the busy holiday shopping season. The retailer noted that all seasonal hires will have a minimum hourly starting wage of $13 an hour. To keep tabs on the latest retail trends, check next week’s Retail Pulse.

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Perficient

AUGUST 10, 2020

The office also has a fitness center plus restaurants and retail on the ground level. They have plenty of opportunities to do so, as South End boasts some of the city’s best-known restaurants, breweries, and bars – all in perfect proximity for a lunchtime meeting or an after-hours gathering. I enjoy the new location for many reasons.

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South State Correspondent

APRIL 23, 2025

In this article, we explore why now might be the right time to reduce rates before the next Fed meeting. As such, moving rates down ten basis points since the last time you moved rates allows your bank to maintain the relative level of deposit rates as you intended since the last Fed meeting. Markets are dynamic.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

United Parcel Service (UPS) is limiting shipping volume for big retailers like Nike and Gap as a means of keeping up with eCommerce delivery demands, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday (Dec. Retailers are now largely dependent on online sales and home delivery.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

These moves seem logical for consumers who have been barred from visiting brick-and- mortar retailers or who are wary of contact with cashiers or payment terminals due to the potential for viral transmission, but they are also likely to have a dramatic impact on the future of digital and in-store commerce. The rise of omnichannel .

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 18, 2023

Retail Sales & PPI Reveal Softening Activity. The first of those is retail sales for December which declined by 1.1%. The so-called core retail sales rate, or Control Group, dipped 0.7% The post Retail Sales & PPI Reveal Softening Activity appeared first on SouthState Correspondent Division.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In a world where retail has changed and consumers remain at home, how do brands reimagine the task of getting products to customers? Meet the Hosts. She specializes in digital experience, retail, and digital. She specializes in digital experience, retail, and digital. In Episode 4 of the What If? LinkedIn | Perficient.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The hot new thing in “Big Retail” is offering in-house advertising on your website to your vendors – because why get paid only once on a purchase if you can get paid twice? In short, retailers get paid to place the ad, and then get paid again when the merchandise is sold. Enormous Potential.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2020

Companies may have to adjust the two-week payment cycle to a process that meets the changing needs of the workforce. And in next-gen payments, companies and workers are seeking quicker and more flexible payroll solutions , particularly in a time of uncertainty. All this, Today in Data. 4.8M: Number of jobs U.S. employers added in June.

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Perficient

JANUARY 27, 2021

Meet the Hosts. She specializes in digital experience, retail, and digital. Jim Hertzfeld is Principal and Chief Digital Strategist for Perficient and works with clients to make their customers and stakeholders happy by delivering insanely great digital experiences. LinkedIn | Perficient.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Businesses of all types are deploying new initiatives to meet this demand, with merchants like CVS Pharmacy rolling out QR-based payment integrations at store locations across the country, and payments providers like Square and PayPal introducing QR codes at their point-of-sale (POS) systems. Retail Environment.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2020

Consumers are unlikely to return to stores and business districts in the near future, nor can businesses simply rely on longstanding relationships with suppliers and retailers to keep production lines moving and shelves stocked.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It became the first brick-and-mortar retailer to earn the majority of its revenue from eCommerce as 54 percent of its third-quarter take came from digital channels. “We Nordstrom crossed a critical digital-first economy threshold in its earnings announcement on Tuesday (Nov. So the way we're thinking about it, is we.

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South State Correspondent

JULY 11, 2022

Investors Brace for Hot June CPI Report and So-So Retail Sales. Two factors will probably drive most of the price action this week and that’s Wednesday’s June CPI Report and Friday’s Retail Sales. The week ends with June retail sales which are expected to increase 0.9% The year-over-year is expected to hit a new cycle high of 8.8%

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2020

More and more retail and commercial customers are demanding a seamless banking experience. Financial institutions will need to leverage technology to meet these expectations if they want to retain existing customers and attract […].

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