As the big merger between Delhaize and Ahold nears the final lap, it looks like the 86 stores to be divested from the herd have found buyers. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...
Who can ever forget that memorable Staples commercial from the 90s of that father dancing around the store and joyously placing back-to-school items — like staplers, backpacks and pencil sharpeners — in his cart, while his two young children looked on in horror as the...
The Children’s Place, the Secaucus, New Jersey-based retailer that is the “largest children’s pure-play specialty apparel retailer in North America,” revealed plans on Thursday (July 14) to team up with Alliance Data on a new loyalty-driven, private-label credit card program, the two companies announced in a...
Pokémon GO — you might love it, you might hate it, but you’ve most certainly heard of it by now. Retailers had to get hip to the idea of sudden hordes of phone-toting pedestrians showing up at their store fronts when the red-hot mobile app launched...
Every halfway-casual sports fan knows that, no matter what’s going on in the game itself, it’s not over until the fat lady sings. Well, in the case of the beleaguered Sports Authority brand, it seems as if she mercifully might. Get the Full Story Complete...
In the beginning of online shopping, it was brick-and-mortar brands that cried foul over the seemingly unfair fact that their new, nimble rivals didn’t have to contend with the costs of running a business in the physical world. Free from the chains of commercial rents,...
Years from now, parents will struggle to describe to their kids what life was like before Pokémon GO was released and countless millennials were suddenly loosed from their houses into the wide world around them. The mobile game is still barely a week old, but the sheer...
Sainsbury was awarded $91 million by a London judge following a long-running dispute over fees charged on card transactions with Mastercard Inc. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...
Startups have been aiming to disrupt pretty much every aspect of our lives, and that is particularly true of the fitness class market as well. Aiming to become the de facto app to help customers find local fitness classes, Zenrez of San Francisco raised $2...
