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PYMNTS Daily Data Dive: Lending Club Edition
May 10, 2016

It is been a full 24-hour period of news for online lending marketplace Lending Club, which has seen its founding CEO depart, its stock price crater and the future of its entire lending niche questioned all in a very short period of time. Get the Full...

Retail
Best Buy’s Two-Pronged Reinvention Attack
May 10, 2016

Amazon has been hard on Best Buy’s bottom line over the last several years, a situation that makes it almost entirely non-unique among the big-box retailers that exploded during the late ’90s and early 2000s. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...

Retail
JC Penney Is Jumping Back Into Appliances
May 10, 2016

Though recently dominated by large box stores and (even more recently) by online vendors, JC Penney is going old school and returning to the sale of home appliances. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all...

Regulation
Dollar Stores’ Gain Is Traditional Grocery’s Loss
May 10, 2016

As Dollar Stores of all stripes are increasing a booming business, analysts and experts are beginning to wonder if “big grocery” runs the risk of being the “big loser” in the equation. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

Retail
Keurig’s Parent Company Acquires Krispy Kreme
May 10, 2016

Krispy Kremes by Keurig — it has a pleasant, if vaguely Kardashianesque feeling about it. Something about all the Ks. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....

Retail
eBay And Sotheby’s Team Up For High-End Auctions
May 10, 2016

According to reports in luxury daily, high-end shoppers with a taste for buying online will get something of a unique opportunity to combine their dual passions next week, care of an effort undertaken by Sotheby’s and eBay. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

Payment Methods
QR Payments Are Having A Moment
May 10, 2016

There’s no single right way to design a mobile wallet, but it seems as if the industry agreed a few years ago that if there was a right way, QR codes definitely wasn’t it. There is something to be said about how the design aspects...

Merchant Innovation
Amazon Is Driving The Final Nail Into B&M Home Improvement’s Coffin
May 10, 2016

It was one thing when Amazon was selling physical things, but the game changed the moment it started offering services, too. Ripples were promptly sent flying into all corners of the retail universe with the launch of Amazon Home Services in March 2015, and now...

The Not-So-Sweet Smell Of Brick-And-Mortar
May 10, 2016

With physical retail taking a hit in so many areas from eCommerce, some brick-and-mortar businesses might be ignoring a simple but very important aspect of their operations: the presentation of their stores. Unlike online shopping, not “keeping up appearances” is a factor that — in...