Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2023

The acceptance of cash has started to trend upwards again, but payment technology is helping businesses to deliver consistently better experiences, so what does the future hold? And how can businesses be ready for evolving payment technologies? Consumers, too, preferred to use contactless payments or to shop online.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

CoStar Group, a commercial real estate firm, estimates there were a record-breaking 12,200 brick-and-mortar store closures in 2020 as a result of the pandemic. As a result of these new approaches, customers now expect a secure, seamless shopping experience whether they are shopping in-person or online.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 23, 2021

Flexible payment provider Affirm is expanding its range of services to include the post-purchase experience with the acquisition of online returns solution Returnly for approximately $300 million. Retailers such as Walmart , Bonobos and Peloton currently use Affirm to offer customers flexible payment options such as Buy Now, Pay Later.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In May 2020, McKinsey issued a report stating while the COVID-19 pandemic was shaking up small businesses across the board, it was disproportionately affecting minority-owned small businesses. Think food services, retail and personal and laundry services, for instance. Reasons cited were that the country’s 1.1

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2021

The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated demand for buy now, pay later (BNPL) payment options. Surges in online shopping during the pandemic helped fuel the growth of point-of-sale loans — a market that is forecast to grow at an annualized 9.8% Consumers are using BNPL to stretch purchase payments between paychecks.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Operating food delivery, video streaming and payment services in Asia, Coupang made its IPO debut on the New York Stock Exchange in 2021. It is reasonable to expect that the US$300 million convertible senior notes issued by Farfetch Limited to Richemont in November 2020 will not be repaid,” the company said.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 15, 2023

An investigation by the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) found that Harris Scarfe did not correctly compensate several employees who were working more than 38 hours a week. The retailer self-reported to the regulator regarding the underpayments following an internal review in 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

While Party City operated approximately 275 temporary Halloween locations last year, it plans only about 25 this year. In addition to online shopping, Party City offers contactless shopping experiences at its stores through curbside pickup, same-day delivery and contactless mobile payments.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2021

The pandemic accelerated not just ecommerce but also digital payment methods: digital wallets reached 29.3% ecommerce share in 2020, up from 23.7% The wallets are expected to unseat credit cards as the preferred online payment method in the coming years, according to the FIS Global Payments Report 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2022

The good news is that since its global popularization in 2020, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) has become a real game-changer for merchants looking to boost their business. For shoppers, BNPL is a seamless payment method that helps break up their purchases into several installments, bringing more cash flow and budgeting flexibility.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 4, 2022

We’ve seen panic buying, the rise of the “homebody economy” and a strong shift towards contactless shopping. As we emerge from the worst of the pandemic, it seems the right time to reflect on the most important changes in consumer behaviour we’ve seen, and to make some predictions about COVID-19’s lasting and pervasive effects on how we shop.

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365 Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2023

iwoca , one of Europe’s largest small business lenders, today announces the integration of its B2B payment solution iwocaPay with leading commerce platform, Shopify. As the number of online B2B businesses grows, so does demand for more tailored solutions around purchase and payments processes.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Manhattan’s Fairway Market grocery chain has partnered with Instacart to develop a new convenience-focused service called Fairway Now that will offer delivery of last-minute grocery items and household essentials in as fast as 30 minutes. This enables Instacart to expedite deliveries for Fairway Now, particularly during peak in-store hours.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 11, 2021

But while blending of in-store and online provides consumers with significantly more flexible shopping, it also creates operational challenges. Consumers’ new shopping habits picked up during the pandemic show no sign of waning. Curbside pickup increased by more than 500% from the end of 2019 to August 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2022

Merchants in particular had to quickly shift from in-store sales to online and learn how to accept payments digitally. Concurrently, the summer of 2020 brought the highest number of new business applications in the past 15 years, and this trend has continued, with Americans filing a record 1.4 Thankfully, there is a better way.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In conjunction with the upcoming National Consumer Protection Week, the Retail Gift Card Association (RGCA) is promoting a public service announcement to inform consumers about steps toward secure use. At the beginning of the 2021 holiday shopping season, gift-card purchases experienced a surge in demand. Postal Service.

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Inside Retail

JULY 12, 2023

Documents listed by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) show Calia Australia, which operates the flagship restaurant and retail store in the city’s Emporium shopping complex and a spin-off restaurant at the Chadstone shopping centre, appointed voluntary administrators on June 28.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The AI-powered autonomous shopping experience just got bigger, in the form of a 4,000-square-foot hybrid convenience market called AI Go in Shanghai. The store combines a manned checkout with the use of computer vision as part of checkout-free shopping powered by AiFi Solutions.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 7, 2020

While we shouldn’t expect online sales to remain at their peak levels when the safety risks of in-person shopping dissipate, merchants cannot hope to weather the storm and return to business as usual. As we move forward, these capabilities are critical for all retailers: Accept Contactless Payments. Traditionally, U.S. And the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2022

Amazon ’s One palm scanner payment technology will reportedly expand to more than 65 Whole Foods stores in California, according to TechCrunch and other media outlets. Amazon One was launched in Amazon Go stores in 2020 and early 2021 before expanding to an Amazon Fresh supermarket later that year.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Here, we chat with Missfresh about how the DMWs operate, how it’s digitalising fresh markets and its plans for the future. We also own our user acquisition channels and after-sales services, which ensures the best products and services being delivered to our customers. In June, the brand went public on the NASDAQ.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Meituan, for example, which has over 600 million users and is valued at US$100 billion, provides almost every type of lifestyle service and entertainment. Online grocery shopping has become routine in many countries, but in the future you should expect every kind of purchase to become faster and even more convenient. Social commerce.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 3, 2021

In 2020, 23 million children missed out on basic vaccines through routine immunisation services, leaving them at risk to devastating but preventable diseases,” said UNICEF Australia chief executive Tony Stuart. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2021

In 2020, data security specialist Varonis calculated that close to 10 billion data records had been lost or stolen since 2013 — a third more records than there are people. From a shopping perspective, the scene of the crime has evolved from the POS to the internet, and the number of victims is huge. alone, 19 per inhabitant.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 6, 2022

Today, cybersecurity is more important than ever, especially because 1 in 8 UK retail stores have suffered cyber attacks in 2020 and 2021, with 28% being small businesses that experienced a data breach. It is very unlikely that a shop owner won’t accept card payments. Tips for Retail Businesses to Avoid Risks.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2021

Verizon Media — a division of Verizon Communications that includes AOL and Yahoo — will launch Yahoo Shops , a combination marketplace and advertising solution. The Yahoo Shops marketplace will feature a personalized digital storefront. Yahoo Shops is unique in that it is part of the larger Verizon digital media ecosystem.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Despite having just officially begun, this holiday shopping season already is marked by supply chain disruption, persistent inflation and mixed consumer confidence. Holiday shopping insights from the Adobe Digital Economy Index predict that ecommerce will become even more ubiquitous, with U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

American Dream missed a payment of $8.8 1, 2022, and the balance in the reserve account previously used to make payments on the loans is $862.12. However, the missed payment didn’t constitute a default nor did it require the megamall to pay back the $287 million loan it was for. million on Aug.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2021

A year of quick pivots for the retail industry, 2020 required brands to rapidly adjust their spaces to account for social distancing and the safety measures of consumers, staff and everyone in between. In order to lean into creating safer environments, we saw the rise of flexible fulfillment and contactless payments.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2022

Through the Aldi Shop&Go app, shops track customers with a number of high-tech cameras as they make their way through the store; they are automatically charged once they leave – mirroring the model set out by Amazon’s first Go store, launched in 2016, which offers a range of packaged ready-to-eat meals.

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A1 Retail

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Barclaycard Payments’ data shows quarterly SME transactions have risen by 38.1 per cent (compared to 2019) as Christmas shopping gets underway. The quarterly SME Barometer combines billions of merchant transactions, processed by Barclaycard Payments, with research data to provide an in-depth look at the UK SME economy .

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2023

According to a statement provided to Inside Retail by The Iconic, an internal review of the company’s payroll systems identified underpayments and overpayments of casual employees – with 814 current and former employees impacted between 2013-2020. The brand is not seeking to recover any overpayments.

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Retail Minded

OCTOBER 27, 2022

For example, retail businesses now integrate omnichannel strategies like M-commerce or mobile commerce to enable mobile shopping. Many consumers now rely on mobile devices to research products and services, make an order, and complete transactions. Also, it facilitates better personalization. Accept Mobile Payments.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2023

Online shopping platform Zalora expects e-commerce to remain resilient despite the economic uncertainties facing businesses in Southeast Asia and an increasingly dimming global economy. One example of this in the world of fashion is the transition from live streaming to augmented reality shopping. What’s next?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 17, 2023

The retailer began offering same-day delivery in partnership with DoorDash in December 2020. More than 10,000 products from Petco are now available for delivery nationwide via the DoorDash Marketplace, including food, treats, toys, beds, bowls and other supplies.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2022

Amazon has unveiled a new and improved version of its smart shopping cart — called the Dash Cart — and plans to roll out the carts at select Whole Foods Market stores for the first time. First deployed in 2020 , Dash Carts are already available at many Amazon Fresh stores across the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2021

Up to 70% of people still agree that the coronavirus situation concerns them “hugely,” a slight drop from 79% in April 2020. Approximately one in three people are now comfortable resuming going to the office, to the hairdresser, sending children to school, non-food shopping, going to bars/restaurants and traveling within their own country.

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