As has been long forecast, not to mention strenuously requested by the CDC, the 2020 shopping season is shaping up to be a rather digital affair, with customers eschewing stores in favor of digitally enabled shopping paths. The shift in consumer preference is altering the...
Thanksgiving is America’s most traditional holiday as, for generations, families have sat around the table to a turkey dinner with all the trimmings. And though there is some variety of opinions on what constitutes the correct, traditional trimmings line-up — mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, stuffing and...
The shutdowns are on in the European Union as COVID-19 cases rise and local leaders work overtime to bend back the curve because their hospital ICU beds are outstripped by the exploding number of new cases. In the U.K., the government of Prime Minister Boris...
Smart cities powered by 5G networks have long been forecast as coming soon to major metros all over the world. But actual progress has been limited by various regulatory and technological headwinds that have kept the connected smart city more a vision of the future...
Echelon Fitness is finding itself in hot water with Amazon over Echelon’s new “EX-Prime Smart Connected Bike,” which it claims was developed “in collaboration with Amazon.” The bike lists for $500, well below roughly $2,000 that Peloton’s popular connected bikes cost. The only problem? “This...
The digital shift is rippling across channels, with buying journeys that often start on smartphones and conclude at curbside, as buy online, pickup in-store (BOPIS), delivered to the door or in-store. PYMNTS September Commerce Connected Playbook: Omnichannel Edition, done in collaboration with Fiserv, examines the...
Today in digital payments sees the developing deal between China’s ByteDance, Oracle and Walmart for the sale of TikTok, the big move among retailers to merge the physical and the digital into a single omnicommerce experience for consumer and Gojek’s latest addition for the Chinese...
Today in the changing world of how we eat, Blaze Pizza finds ways to fight friendly fraud and quick-service restaurants (QSRs) digitally delight for National Cheeseburger Day. McDonald’s Burger King And Other QSRs Celebrate National Cheeseburger Day With App-Based Discounts McDonald’s, Burger King, Smashburger, BurgerFi...
Most eCommerce shopping tools and sites that have seen usage surge during the pandemic have never been stressed to this extent. Consumers have shopped online, via mobile devices and at brick-and-mortar stores in various capacities for years, but the pandemic is dramatically expanding the connections...