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Best Buy Offers Free Shipping For The Holidays
November 09, 2018

For the fourth consecutive year, Best Buy is offering free shipping on all online orders with no minimum purchase for the holidays. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...

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American Eagle Leads $3.45M Investment In Dormify
November 09, 2018

Dormify announced a $3.45 million Series A investment led by American Eagle Outfitters. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today....

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Starbucks Expanding In Japan
November 09, 2018

Starbucks announced it is expanding its presence in Japan, building 100 new stores annually over the next three years to bring its store count to 1,700. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

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Bread Finance On Why The Early Financing Offer Catches The Conversion Worm
November 09, 2018

Offering financing to consumers can be a tremendous marketing and customer retention tool for retailers that do it right. The trick, Bread Finance CTO and Co-founder Daniel Simon told PYMNTS in a recent conversation, is doing it right to ensure that consumers know about financing — and whether they can...

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Thoughts Of Holiday Retail Cheer Tempered By Memories Of Failure
November 08, 2018

It’s the big stage for retailers, the holiday shopping season – when all the consumer world is watching (and, merchants and payments providers hope, buying more than they did last year). Successes bring profit, bonuses and gilded reputations. Failures — well, they bring social media...

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Xiaomi Launches Mi 8 Pro Smartphone In UK
November 08, 2018

Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone maker, is now operating in the U.K. market, launching its Mi 8 Pro handset in the country on Thursday (Nov. 8). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...

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How J.Crew, H&M, Others Push Hard On Payments Innovation, Loyalty
November 08, 2018

In a bid to increase loyalty, merchants are driving innovations in their stores. To that end, some brick-and-mortar retailers have begun to offer rewards programs for the very first time to bring shoppers through their doors. The idea? Retailers are taking new approaches to the...

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An Australian Taxi Bidding Model In The Age Of Rideshares
November 08, 2018

In the dot-com era of the 1990s, Priceline came onto the scene with a revolutionary idea for travel: Travelers could use a “name your own price” feature to bid for airline tickets, before the company ended the feature when it became too difficult for consumers...

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JetBlue’s Inclusive Take On Loyalty
November 08, 2018

Airlines are not quite the inventors of the points-based loyalty model, but they do perhaps deserve credit, historically speaking, for perfecting the art form. Points are undeniably a popular selling point for consumers, some of whom will literally go to great lengths to travel on their...