Sizzle Of The Week: AR/VR’s Retail Gains Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have spent much of 2018 generating buzz as a potential tool for retailers looking to bridge the digital/physical gap and deliver an all-encompassing, omnichannel shopping experience. Retailers and merchants — big...
A weekly trip to the grocery store has long been a fixture in most Americans’ lives. But as more consumers embrace the convenience and simplicity provided by eCommerce options, roaming the produce and frozen food sections of their local supermarket is becoming a thing of...
American dining habits are changing, and so is how consumers spend money on food. Millennials and younger portions of the population are now turning to convenient, customizable and healthy fare in search of sustenance that fits into their daily hustles. Rather than gathering around the...
Americans spent some $682 billion on groceries in 2017 alone. The bulk of that spending took place at brick-and-mortar grocery stores and supermarkets, but all of that is changing as consumers turn to digital channels. While many still head to brick-and-mortar stores, shoppers are...
Sizzle Amazon’s B2B Biz: Amazon is everywhere — and while retail is the name of the game, B2B is growing by leaps and bounds. In fact, Amazon’s B2B is growing faster than retail, as Amazon Business is on track to hit $10 billion in sales this...
Sizzle of the Week: Uber’s Ecosystem Ambitions Payments have always been central to the Uber customer’s experience. The magic of a better-than-a-taxi-ride ending and simply stepping out while the payment resolved quietly by itself on the backend was foremost a central appeal for Uber, particularly when...
The last days of summer here. The end of a quarter is approaching, and with that, we head into the end of a year. It’s been a dizzying few months in payments. Amid your Labor Day BBQ, we offer a few bite-sized nuggets gleaned from...
Sizzle Square: The firm, touted by some on the sell side as “FinTech’s best idea,” had a stock boost this week. At the same time, news has emerged that Square has filed a patent to help merchants accept bitcoin and other cryptos at its POS...
There’s a lot of sizzle in marketplaces. In fact, they have made tiny businesses into big ones, as even the tiniest one-man operation can gain the chance to jump from a hyper-local stage to a global one — with access to professional supply chain management and logistics...