Retail

Virtual Retail-ity
December 17, 2015

What can virtual reality technology bring to the retail space? According to Hrvoje Prpic, Founder and CEO of Trillenium, a whole new world. He shares his thoughts on what is perhaps the next revolution in online commerce.

Consumer Insights
Placemeter’s All-Seeing Eye For In-Store Retail
December 17, 2015

It’s no secret that brick-and-mortar retail is playing a high-stakes game of catchup against its online counterparts. It can seem like digital marketplaces have so many built-in advantages to running their businesses through the Internet — a medium where detailed data on shoppers is the...

How Much Data Do Retailers’ Apps Really Expose?
December 17, 2015

When it comes to their access to customer data, some retailers’ mobile apps might have landed on Santa’s naughty list this year. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...

News
Subscription Commerce In A Snap
December 16, 2015

Subscription commerce is one of the fastest growing areas of commerce, especially in the U.S. where 40 percent of revenue comes from returning or repeat purchasers who represent only 8 percent of all visitors, according to Adobe. So, the return on investment of offering this...

The Force Is With Mobile
December 16, 2015

With big movies come long lines, and no movie in history has been poised to be much bigger than ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’. The impending release of that event film, however, coincides with a boom of digital consumer behavior that could make waiting in...

Walmart’s Union (And Document) Woes
December 16, 2015

As its battle with labor unions goes on, Walmart has taken issue with the fact that the opposing side went public with the company’s tactics in that very conflict. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...

Why Amazon Is Gambling Big On Prime Now
December 16, 2015

Amazon’s immediate area of interest deals with, as it happens, immediacy. 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. By completing...

Why Hackers Will Target Wearables
December 16, 2015

This holiday season, consumers and cybercriminals might have the same thing on their wish list this holiday season: wearables. 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...

Merchant Innovation
Former Costco Exec Trying To Create Certs For Organic Food
December 16, 2015

Though “organic” might have meant something before the health and fitness craze of the last several years, it’s largely become another marketing buzzword to catch the eye of health-conscious shoppers. However, one former Costco executive thinks there can, and should be, meaning behind the word. Get...