PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Retailers are turning to accelerators to drive innovation, and Target is taking its program to the international stage: It is teaming up with Germany’s wholesale and food specialist METRO AG for its cohort this year. They will also visit the headquarters of Target in Minnesota and METRO’s Accelerator headquarters in Berlin.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

14) when an exclusive report from Reuters said that Alibaba wants to buy a stake in Germany-based Metro AG’s wholesale operations in China. The 2018 holiday shopping season did not exactly bring the most optimistic news about the ongoing prospects of physical retail, specifically in the U.S. That was demonstrated again this week (Feb.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

To help shoppers check out without waiting in line, grocery retailers are rolling out entire stores centered around cashierless shopping experiences, enabling consumers to purchase fresh food and grocery items with a mobile payments app. ABI Research predicts that one million automated retail units will be in the Asia-Pacific region by 2023.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

Is the store register on its way out in favor of other retail and payments innovation? In case you didn’t hear, Target faced a register outage that lasted for about 90 minutes on Sunday (June 16), which meant the retail chain couldn’t process cards or other forms of payment. That’s the message from a company called LISNR, at least.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

All of Mastercard’s issuing partners will participate in this new cashback initiative, including Clydesdale Bank, Metro Bank, Monzo, N26, Starling Bank, Virgin Money and Yorkshire Bank. Santander will join later this year. “As As an industry, we have committed to finding sustainable ways to maintain people’s access to cash.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The service availability has also increased to include 50 metro areas around the country. Just like when Amazon entered a retail market, the traditional players have to respond, and the same can be said of Amazon Home Services. What’s more, Amazon said the average rating is 4.7 out of five stars.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2020

Philippe also said per the report that limitations would remain for train travel of long distances and that Paris metro service would be bolstered to let individuals get to their jobs while still following social distancing. The HDE, which is a national organization of retailers, had panned the decision only to let smaller shops open again.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

It’s a good time in America to have a retail space ready to rent out — eCommerce merchants are on the hunt and signing large contracts. By category, the biggest lease signers were manufacturers, with 14 percent of the market, followed closely by beverage providers (11 percent), retailers (7 percent) and tech firms (4 percent).

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

Despite the nearly continuous drumbeat of doom and gloom from the world of physical retail, there is, according to Affirm CRO Rob Pfeifer, something of a curious side phenomenon unfolding at the same time: Online brands – famous and famously successful online brands – are branching out into physical retail.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 8, 2017

Seven years ago, the first new retail bank in almost a century got its licence to open: Metro Bank. Now, there are so many new banks starting up in Britain (and across Europe) that it’s sometimes hard to keep up with it all.

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Payments Source

AUGUST 8, 2019

InComm has partnered with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) to more than quadruple the number of retail locations at which customers can purchase and reload its contactless TAP transit fare cards.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

has tapped Adyen for online and in-store payments in Europe , and the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation in India is at work on a quick response (QR) code ticketing system. Adyen’s chief commercial officer, Roelant Prins, noted that the line between online and in-store has blurred as retail has become more fluid. In addition, Gap Inc.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

And it is not necessarily just a tire retailer – Komal said it is more of a logistics company that also happens to sell and install tires. There are also a lot of busy working professionals and big corporate headquarters in both of those metro areas. Both cities are relatively spread out, so people have longer commute times.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Via that API integration, Bond allows retailers to make the entire delivery process more transparent to their customers – not to mention more customizable. The hope, according to Hachmon, is to give retailers better end-to-end control of their consumers’ experience. No matter where it is, it will likely be a welcome add-on.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

By the time retailers get to Black Friday , they will have worked through almost two months of sales events – both proprietary and otherwise – from competitors ranging from Amazon to Target to Walmart. COVID-19 shows no signs of abating – in fact, fears of a second wave have already hit New York City, among other metro areas.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

Consumers may be curbing their spending , and perhaps even anticipating a new recession, but that could all serve as fuel for certain types of retail expansion — in this case, more brick-and-mortar stores for deep discount chain Five Below. But both efforts, along with other moves, show the ongoing life behind brick-and-mortar retail.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

Metro authorities in India are planning to launch automatic fare collection (AFC) gates that will work with the country’s National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) that was introduced in March by the Ministry of Finance , according to reports on Thursday (Jan. Right now, the smart card lets commuters skip the lines to buy metro tickets.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The world’s largest retailer plans to open 1,000 mini delivery hubs in suburbs and cities across the country, Bloomberg reports , citing sources familiar with the company’s plans. But Amazon’s search for an edge in the COVID-era retail wars extends beyond terrestrial warehouses and to the skies.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

And while the numbers have eased some since May, a much higher share of consumers are buying retail items, takeout food and groceries online more than before the pandemic began: For instance, the digital shift has dramatically changed the morning coffee routine for millions of people who now work from home instead of commuting to offices.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

14) that German retailer Metro AG is looking to offload its Real hypermarkets via sale, and the firm, said Reuters , “remains confident” of a transaction. Metro has said it wants to train its sights on its wholesale business. Metro said it has had interest from a number of parties, Reuters reported Friday.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

metros, with plans to expand further this year. The recent woes of Sears and other struggling retailers are seen as an opportunity for the online retail giant. Finance at the time that the company is visiting sites of now-defunct retail spaces. Amazon said it will continue to expand the service throughout this year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2018

In response, unattended retail operators are finding new ways to embrace alternative payment methods, ranging from mobile wallets to cryptocurrencies. In the new Unattended Retail Tracker , PYMNTS charts the latest ways that companies are working to accept more non-cash payment methods, from the common credit card swipe to biometric scans.

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TheGuardian

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Chief executive’s boast that there is nothing wrong with its business model will sound hollow to those nursing a 97% loss Once upon a time, Metro Bank was going to shake up the old guard in the banking world via the radical strategy of opening branches while others were closing them. Those investors have now received a harsh lesson.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

Friction bedevils all types of retail — and that holds true for transactions inside stores or via eCommerce sites. LISNR is taking part in the METRO Target Retail Accelerator , certified by Techstars. Not only that, but history, in a sense, is catching up with retail. Solving For Friction.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2017

But, while more consumers are heading to mobile retail channels, the personal experience and ability to touch and preview items in-person offered by physical stores still holds allure for roughly 70 percent of shoppers. People aren’t [going] online anymore — they’re online all day,” Schambach said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

And in fashion retail, Gap Inc. 30: Approximate number of retailers in New York for which Bond manages post-purchase logistics. $15 6: Number of additional nano distribution centers Bond plans to open in the NY metro area by March. All this, Today in Data. 56 million: Number of women who bought secondhand products in 2018.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Online retailers are expanding their brick-and-mortar footprints – and using feedback from eCommerce customers to inform the selections in their new stores. A data team from the eCommerce retailer determines what is sold at the locations, Amazon Physical Stores Director Drew Sheriff told MetroWest Daily News.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 27, 2024

This can be seen in the observed deposit betas below from a group of retail and commercial accounts. In the same vein, duration buffering accounts are more important to commercially-focused banks than retail-focused banks. We have many rural areas of Florida where the beta is higher than it is in metro markets.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

With the positive response of shoppers, Walmart says, the company is growing the offering to all 200 metro areas where Grocery Delivery is currently available. Walmart started experimenting with Delivery Unlimited in Salt Lake City, Miami, Houston and Tampa earlier in the year.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

We saw that retailers themselves are too slow to deliver, while delivery startups that work with third-party stores don’t have real-time access to their assortment and often have to replace goods in the order,” Maxim Firsov, head of the division that includes Lavka, told Bloomberg. Sales are in excess of 127 billion rubles ($2 billion).

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Bank of the West recently added 143 ATMs across the Denver and Sacramento metro areas through an agreement with ATM operator Cardtronics. One target? Millennials, actually.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Digitally native brands often test the retail waters with pop-up shops, and, after some offline success, they may expand their concepts with permanent locations. In preparation for the holiday season this year, the retailer has updated its website and also plans to have a larger array of electronics, toys and fashion products.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Roadie is using the three partnerships to expand its presence in 224 metro areas across the U.S. Many of the metro areas were first launched with consumers and small businesses and now the company is scaling to cater to enterprise customers delivering anything up to 100 miles around each city in the country. “In

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BankInovation

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Metro Bank is considering growth strategies and digital investment plans following a tumultuous month that nearly ended in a collapse similar to Silicon Valley Bank’s downfall in the spring. Last week, the London-based bank’s stock plummeted 30% and talks of a necessary capital raise and potential sale swirled.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The retailer also announced yesterday (Nov. as well as grocery delivery at about 600 locations in 50 metro areas. Amazon, by comparison, has grocery pickup at 22 Whole Foods locations in 48 metros. eCommerce business, recently said that Walmart could one day own more than 40 independent eCommerce retailers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Innovation in retail comes from many places, and that includes pets. Finding a good dog sitter in a crowded urban metro area can be challenging — particularly if one is looking for an offering with flexibility. Take the example of doggie day care.

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Payments Source

JUNE 20, 2016

Malaysian remittance company Metro Money Exchange has selected Dragonfly Fintech, a Singapore-based blockchain technology provider, to power its remittance business.

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