PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

With unemployment at new lows, staffing has become a challenge for retail companies. Retailers had 757,000 job openings in July, which is roughly 100,000 more than they had a year before, The Wall Street Journal reported. Retailers are hosting “recruiting marathons” to help hire thousands of people.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Amazon is pushing retailers to accept yet another digital wallet at the point of sale -- its own Amazon Pay, which until now has been used almost entirely in the e-commerce world, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Seattle locals dropped everything once word started to spread online that the yellow vending “Snapbot” was spotted at Dick’s Drive-In restaurant. Spectacles, retailing for around $142, are sunglasses that allow wearers to record 10-second video snaps of life from their perspective and then download those memories onto Snapchat.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

To provide a new shopping experience for wireless products, AT&T is opening a new 3,000-square-foot concept store in Seattle. 29), is intended to be “part retail store, part coffeehouse and part hangout space,” the company said in an announcement. The store, which is scheduled to open on Saturday (Sept.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

But the growing use of those brands to attract sales is also leading to more focus on potential challenges for online, private label retail over the next few years. Private brands, of course, are hardly new, and their use in retail predates the birth of eCommerce. Consumers can buy furniture anywhere. Private Label Pivot.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Apparel used to be mostly a brick-and-mortar retail experience, but that has changed drastically over the last few years – and has been one of the main innovations when it comes to commerce related to the clothes we wear. But at this point, it is also mostly table stakes in the race to bring apparel retail online. Better Fit.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2017

Seattle startup FLEXE looks to enable online retailers to compete against Amazon’s logistics capabilities. Earlier this month, the online retail giant dropped its free shipping threshold to $25 in a move to better compete against Walmart — the second such price drop in the past three months.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

Can cameras replace cashers in retail? The paper noted that many such retail innovation efforts for grocery start in Europe. often pioneer new technology like online delivery and self-payment kiosks that their American peers eventually adopt.”. The grocery industry is making a go of it. The latest effort comes from the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

No exact date has been given, but Business Insider reported that Amazon told one retailer to expect the event to be held around Oct. The Seattle-based online behemoth already twice rescheduled the event from a previously planned July date. A definitive date will be announced as we get closer to the event.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2020

When Walmart announced Q2 earnings earlier this week, the nation’s largest retailer announced twin blowout performances in both its eCommerce and same-store sales. Stop & Shop owner Ahold Delhaize NV announced plans earlier this week for putting more resources toward online shopping operations. the Seattle Times reported.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 14, 2019

Customers increasingly expect banks and other financial institutions to meet them where they are with full functionality, said panelists at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 in Seattle on Tuesday.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

By going head-to-head with Amazon, Target throws down the gauntlet not only to its Seattle-based competition, but to Walmart as well. In-store employees will pack online orders that ship directly to shoppers, continuing to fulfill more than 90 percent of Target’s digital demand.

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JUNE 11, 2019

comes after the online retailer opened one of the concept locations in New York City in a mall, CNBC reported. The retailer has been experimenting with the offering through an arrangement with Starbucks in Seattle.) The first Amazon Go opened last January at the online retailer’s Seattle, Washington headquarters.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving from cool concept toward everyday consumer reality, and signs of that innovation are increasingly appearing in the retail space. Take the issue of retail security as one example. Retail Trust and AI. Based in Seattle and two years old, Xnor develops low-power edge-based AI.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Four years ago, Amazon introduced its Amazon Pay digital wallet to increase online payments. It’s the latest effort by the Seattle-based online retailer with a headquarters in Bengaluru, the center of India’s high-tech industry, to intensify the competition in the mostly cash-based economy.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In today’s top retail news, holiday spending is expected to be flat this year, Bed Bath & Beyond rolls out same-day delivery and Target goes up against Amazon Prime Day with “Deal Days.” And the digital-first economy will drive the difference between success and failure for many retailers. But these are the easy points.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

retail economy is unprecedented. What are some of the retailing changes that could last beyond the end of the coronavirus crisis? Contactless payments, however, will fit nicely into what will be a need to have low-touch or no-touch retailing experiences. The partial shutdown of the U.S. So what sticks? They want convenience.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Paul, Nashville, New Jersey, the New York City suburbs, Raleigh-Durham, Richmond, Portland, Salt Lake City, Seattle, St. This is the moment of truth for eCommerce delivery and fulfillment as the pandemic continues to fuel heightened demand for online shopping and delivery amid the busy holiday season.

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MAY 15, 2020

District Court in Seattle, alleges Washington-based Robojap Technologies and Quatic Software Solutions in Punjab, India have scammed Amazon users by offering help to install Alexa on their devices through fake websites and applications. The lawsuit, filed last week in U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

From telehealth to new financing options for patient treatments to big retailers like Walmart , Walgreens and CVS mashing up retail with healthcare, everyone from startups to incumbents are using the pandemic as an opportunity to disrupt — and reinvent — healthcare. Here’s a look at some of the latest developments. We’re in healthcare.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

This spring, Seattle-based Amazon went on a hiring spree, unable to keep up with the boom in online sales. Also, its Amazon Fresh grocery delivery arm was unable to handle all the stay-at-home consumers attempting to go on online COVID-19 shopping sprees. In a COVID-19 world, the eCommerce scene changes quickly.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

As Prime Day continues to roll along, retailers are doing anything and everything possible to capture consumers suddenly inspired to go on a midsummer shopping spree. The plan, Metzger noted, wasn’t to start a retail recycling revolution — or even a business at all. It pretty quickly spread from there. “And

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The eCommerce operator reportedly is leasing some 500,000 square feet of space in a three-story warehouse in Amazon’s hometown of Seattle, according to The Wall Street Journal. That might not sound like such a big deal, but it really is – at least when it comes to Amazon and retail fulfillment in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

According to The Seattle Times , a company spokesperson confirmed that employees received an email notification and apology from Co-president Blake Nordstrom last week regarding the breach. The retailer isn’t the first to be hit with a breach.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Big retailers are opening smaller-format stores in major U.S. Already, the retailer has opened a Planning Studio across the pond in London in October. In the announcement, IKEA Retail U.S. Pizza Hut plans to acquire online ordering software provider QuikOrder. In Other Brick-And-Mortar News. restaurants.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 13, 2018

The Toronto-based startup, which demoed at Bank Innovation 2015 in Seattle […]. Its engineers were also looking for a side project. What they came up with was a way to make billpay easier, and a bot, called Kbot, to smooth the way.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Gray will discuss corporate banking and blockchains on March 1 in Seattle with JP Jolly of Citigroup and Deva Annamalai of Fiserv. Bank Innovation is pleased to welcome Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of technology strategy for blockchain and financial services, to our speaker faculty.

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AUGUST 31, 2018

That arguably describes the recent acquisition of Seattle-based Blueprint Registry , an online universal gift registry, by David’s Bridal , the privately held wedding retail chain that traces its roots back to the first years after World War II. The retailer has a $520 million term loan due in Oct. Online Advantages.

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JULY 21, 2020

The Seattle-based coffee chain’s offerings are now available on multiple platforms run by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. , Starbucks ’ customers in China now have more ways to order drinks. the global technology company specializing in eCommerce, Reuters reported.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

It’s difficult to determine how one could manipulate one’s fingers to represent a retail store while cantillating that paraphrased nursery rhyme (not a lot of them have steeples, to begin with), but it would be a fitting depiction of the current situation that has befallen major retail chains recently.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2019

Interested in joining us for Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 on March 11-12 at the Hyatt Olive 8, Seattle? In Seattle, you’ll see four Ignite Ideas sessions from the following fintech innovators: Lisa Frazier, Head […]. You’d better hurry! Early registration ends this Friday, February 1 at 11:59 PM.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2017

The Tower holds, retrieves and dispenses online orders by scanning a barcode displayed on the customer’s smartphone screen. The Pickup Tower basically works like a huge, high-tech vending machine for online order pickup. It requires no employee direction at all and, of course, no in-store shopping.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2018

It’s not uncommon for online brands to open brick-and-mortar stores, and it seems that Google may be the latest digitally native brand to take the plunge into offline retail. In the past, the Chicago Tribune noted that retail and technology experts had thought Google would build stores to create a place to highlight its electronics.

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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.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

But the store’s selection will differ from traditional retail stores that carry multiple choices for, say, lipstick: It will only offer one product per category and that option will come with the magazine’s famous seal of approval. Earlier this year, Amazon launched its first Amazon Go store in Seattle.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

Omnichannel features are becoming more crucial as tech-savvy millennials gain more spending power and influence, according to the PYMNTS Enterprise Retail Grocery Report. purchased groceries online at least once a month. That percentage dropped to 4 percent when respondents were asked if they shopped for groceries online weekly.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

And so two years ago Worthy purchased a local physical thrift shop in Seattle that was on the doorstep of shutting down — the eponymous Kids on 45th — and decided to expand its mission. In short, she put consignment on subscription for parents. .

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