PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Video games are helping to drive retail innovation and growth, and that includes the hot area of subscription commerce. Video game manufacturers operated a different model of sorts: Create great games to get consumers to buy the hardware, then keep cranking out great games that would keep consumers on board and upgrading those devices.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

The National Retail Federation ’s annual convention may have come and gone but the sentiments, strategies and lessons learned from facing nearly a year of pandemic-led changes by some of the world’s largest merchants are going nowhere fast — especially when it comes to their embrace of increased digitalization. Stores As Social Centers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Despite COVID-19, we are encouraged by the increases we are seeing in shopper traffic, retailer sales and tenant rent collections across our portfolio,” CEO David Simon said in a statement. “We The company also announced that its portfolio net operating income for the period declined 22.4

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Now there are signals that a physical retail rebound is forming up. presidential election in the rearview mirror and 2021 right around the corner, a new shift is underway: the slow but certain move back to shopping inside retail stores — an experience that people still crave for the experiential joy it brings. With the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

Presented by Afterpay and featuring an interview with Daniel Demsky , co-founder of travel clothing retailer Unbound Merino , this report detailed the way installment payment plans’ popularity have surged during the pandemic, and research correctly suggested it would become only more popular during the holiday season. Buy Now, Pay Later.

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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. Tom Ward, senior vice president of digital operations for Walmart U.S.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

But in other ways, it was business as usual, as the two biggest retailers in the world – Walmart and Amazon – posted stellar earnings numbers and competed in more muted ways for the U.S. percent of total consumer spending in Q2 (spanning all categories, including retail) and 9 percent of total retail spending. That’s up from 9.6

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In a roundup of today’s top retail stories: The automotive market continues its comeback with a digital spin, conversational commerce is the next big pandemic-fueled trend, and Tiffany said that its preliminary sales results for August and September 2020 are positive. Conversational Commerce Finds Its Voice in Digital Retail.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Virtual reality could have more retailers reach more consumers in the coming few years — in large part by upping the consumer experience. Already, trends are emerging that promise to play out with greater steam in the 2020s. clothing retailer Topshop, which used it to take shoppers on a waterslide through central London.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

Don’t look now, but virtual reality and augmented reality are starting to make bigger gains in the retail world. These are still early days but trends are coming together — and expectations are rising, thanks not only the evolution of AR and VR technology, but the coming deployments of 5G mobile network ecosystems. Larger Trends.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 2, 2019

It's the beginning of a new year, and naturally new trends will take shape. The seed for some trends like voice banking and contactless payments were already planted last year, while others such like core overhauls went relatively untouched last year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

Visit our News and Trends section for more information on the impact of PSD2. In the past, typically retailers — not just travel companies — had to make a choice really between frictionless [payments] and security,” he said. That’s no longer an option with PSD2 — now, retailers need to provide both. About The Tracker.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ITMs and VTMs are popular retail banking innovations among community banks. What’s on the horizon for retail banking? According to a new report from PwC titled “Retail Banking 2025 and Beyond” (see sidebar), the retail banking industry is undergoing tremendous change—but, of course, community bankers already know that. “A

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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. The fast food operator recently announced an agreement to acquire Apprente. Voice promises to become a bigger part of retail in the months and years to come. That’s the signal sent recently by McDonald’s.

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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. These trends have given rise to a D2C market that is expected to total $17.75 billion in 2020.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

In an interview with PYMNTS, Tim Moran, senior vice president of product and marketing at Worldnet , told PYMNTS that the age of automated retail is dawning — but there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Moran said the overall trend toward automation is being driven by the consumer, and in particular, by millennial consumers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

Commercial landlords were greeted with some good news in July as rent collections for retail properties increased by double digits compared to May and June, GlobeSt.com reported. A survey by Datex Property Solutions, the California-based real estate portfolio management company, revealed that retail rent collections were 68.8

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 25, 2018

EXCLUSIVE — It’s not even a month into 2018 and already so much has changed. The cryptocurrency bitcoin, which shocked everyone by surpassing $17K, further shocked everyone by dropping below $10K. Then of course there are various other events sweeping the financial services space, from new tax laws in the U.S., to the rise of […].

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

Retail reopening events continued to draw light foot traffic on Monday, as Florida joined Texas in allowing non-essential stores to reopen. It showed that consumers are in no hurry to go back to physical shopping, a trend that is accelerating. The retail industry is at a critical juncture. percent from 35.5

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

Or the start of a troubling trend? businesses to create jobs, months into a global pandemic that, as is well-known, has disrupted Main Street SMBs’ operations. One rough jobs report does not a trend make – but it certainly bears watching as we head into a new year. On Friday (Jan 8), we saw a disruption in efforts by U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2020

While the advancement of open banking regulations may be seeing a small skip due to the spread of the coronavirus , many countries saw business and typical banking operations halted right after deciding upon new online privacy rules. For more on this and other stories, visit the Tracker’s News And Trends section. Security .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2020

The pressure on cash-strapped retailers is intense and potentially consequential. At stake are the early returns on some issues that will determine the nature of consumer behavior and spending patterns, which are the lifeblood of retail for any season. Larger retailers may need to look at reformatting as a reinvention strategy.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Dramatic shifts are underway in the retail sector as it adjusts to consumers’ increasingly digital preferences. Merchants are optimizing their eCommerce operations, but this is posing challenges for some, including luxury merchants. This is partly due to the growing participation of luxury retailers that have signed onto the platform.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2018

The solution, Azure Sphere, includes three elements: a new microcontroller unit chip, a customized Linux-based operating system and a turnkey cloud security service. You want to change your operations? Microsoft isn’t the only company upping its game. Israeli firm Armis recently raised $30 million in new funding.

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Perficient

JANUARY 13, 2021

Rabbior highlights the importance of understanding each unique capability of every marketplace type, “[With a marketplace], you go from running a retail store and the branding outside it to bringing all your wares to a flea market. Would you put up the same signs? Probably not.”. Conditional Promotional Factors.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2019

Automated retail might conjure up images of robot cashiers, but beyond a few convenience stores in Japan and Korea, that sci-fi development hasn’t yet become reality for the wider world. The latest Automated Retail Tracker explores these trends and new developments in the unattended retail space. smartphone users.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 23, 2023

Credit Trend Summary In general, the average probability of default increased by 65% over last year. Below are the current delinquency trends and projections. The operative question is when commercial PODs will show a spike. The result is higher probabilities of default and greater credit volatility. This quarter, it is 2.58%.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Sezzle , the installments payments platform, will be working on buy now, pay later (BNPL) services with Target , a press release says, which will test how the popular payment trend works with the retail giant's operations.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

One example in retail and payments is tech incubators — specifically, those run by specific companies and brands, a trend that shows signs of growing even more in the 2020s (which, let us remind you, are only a few months away). This QR code can lead to a more expensive transaction and a less seamless experience compared to NFC.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

Retail apocalypse? Whatever you want to call the decline of brick-and-mortar retail – and it’s getting worse, according to a few recent reports – it’s not good. Among the latest dim figures about brick and mortar (or, if you prefer, the latest bright news for eCommerce operators)? Mere culling of the herd?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

The department store sector had mixed news last week, with Dillard’s displaying signs of recovery and a new report showing a reversal of some of the positive trends that had led to a measured optimistic outlook. 265.8M: Dillard’s operating expenses for the 13 weeks ending Aug.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

Retail is getting more visual, and that stands to be the case for locally-focused merchants as they compete for attention and consumer dollars with the likes of Amazon and Walmart. Indeed, augmented reality is among the tools that local retailers look ready to adopt for further use. Contextualizing Commerce.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Brick-and-mortar commerce has rebounded in recent months, but consumers are still heading online for many of their purchases, maintaining trends set in the early months of the pandemic. Payment trends are expected to continue to tilt toward eCommerce through the remainder of 2020 as well, with some experts predicting that more than 2.1

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Consumers shopping in droves via eCommerce channels is hardly a piece of breaking news — for the better part of a decade, that has been obvious to anyone watching the retail space. They are, Fiserv Senior Vice President of Retail Solutions John Nicola told Karen Webster in a recent conversation — and in great numbers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The worlds of drones and 5G mobile network technology – two of the most promising trends in digital payments and commerce – are colliding. UPS , too, is going down the drone path – one that Amazon pioneered for retail delivery uses – and is seeking a certification to operate commercial drone flights.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amid the great digital shift , retailers and financial institutions (FIs) must walk the fine line between challenging transactions and letting the consumer journey proceed frictionless. That’s driven the retailer to require merchandise, risk-driven signatures that can be dynamically altered, said Thompson. The Scope Of The Problem.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2021

is close to a deal to buy ATM operator Cardtronics , fending off two other bidders, according to the Wall Street Journal on Sunday (Jan. Cardtronics boasts 285,000 ATMs in 10 countries, and is one of the biggest cash machine operators in the world, WSJ writes. billion, those with knowledge of the matter told WSJ.

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