Starbucks’ DoorDash partnership, which came after years of the coffeehouse chain holding out, is expanding. The quick-service restaurant (QSR) giant first announced its deal with the aggregator in September as part of the chain’s reinvention plan after years of Starbucks’ notable absence from the country’s popular delivery marketplace. Now,...
Meta announced on Thursday (Nov. 17) that it has launched a new business search feature for WhatsApp that will allow users to search for businesses by name or category. The feature is live in Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Colombia and the U.K. with the latest WhatsApp...
Most grocery shopping continues to be done in physical stores, but eCommerce is slowly gaining share. By the Numbers According to data from the latest edition of the Digital Economy Payments study, “Digital Economy Payments: The Rise Of Mobile eCommerce,” for which PYMNTS surveyed more...
The pandemic has been a time of change in many areas, particularly the rise of eCommerce for all categories of shopping. For example, 15% of consumer purchases are now made via eCommerce compared to 11% prior to the pandemic. PYMNTS’ data shows there have been...
In a move well-timed for the resurgence of physical retail ahead of holiday foot traffic, PayPal is bringing its PayPal Zettle Terminal mobile POS solution — ‘Terminal’ for short — to U.S. retailers with a set of features to make it an attractive checkout tool for...
While there are still payments friction issues and digital some awareness work to be done, Mexico’s merchants are all-in on smartphone-assisted shopping. According to “The 2022 Global Digital Shopping Index: Mexico Edition,” a PYMNTS and Cybersource collaboration that surveyed 2,137 Mexican consumers as part of...
Conversational commerce firm Attentive is partnering with eCommerce platform Shopify to make it easier for shoppers to make direct purchases after receiving a text message from a brand. Built with Shopify’s Shop Pay checkout flow, Attentive’s text-to-buy solution enables consumers to purchase items directly through...
In-store shopping is seeing a renaissance of sorts as the pandemic fades a bit into the rearview mirror. But shopping in the aisles has changed a bit, as Debbie Guerra, head of merchant, ACI Worldwide, told PYMNTS in an interview. “Even within the digital realm,...
TikTok has debuted a new service called Pulse, which a company blog post says will add more advertising options for brands to get more in touch with cultural issues and events. The blog says Pulse is a “contextual advertising solution” and will let advertisers put...