In-store retailers spend the better part of early November saturating the airwaves with news of their irresistible promotions come Black Friday in order to get shoppers up from the dinner tables and in line for doorbuster deals. However, this year food and beverage delivery startups...
Some good news in the form of funding this week for much hyped, but still struggling, Jet.com. The burgeoning eCommerce effort confirmed that it has raised $350 million of fresh equity in a new funding round that values the startup at $1.35 billion. Get the Full Story Complete...
As successful as Apple has been with most of its product launches, it still has some products that haven’t taken off, such as Apple’s beleaguered iBeacon platform. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
Some people go to great lengths to secure their digital identities, spending hundreds of dollars on anti-spyware software and avoiding any site that might look the least bit suspicious. However, even the most careful users of Dell computers are learning that all their caution against...
Email marketing drove 18 percent of holiday spend in 2014 – as did the Monday and Tuesday after Thanksgiving – and not the weekend in-between. Digital River’s holiday shopping list for retailers offers new advice on how they can grab consumers’ attention across the growing...
What can the payments industry learn from retail (and vice versa)? PYMNTS breaks that down -- plus explores the seasonal hiring boom’s effect on retail security, as well as the continued gaps in consumer password protection -- in this Thanksgiving edition of the Retail Security...
More bad news for physical retailers going into a Black Friday that seems to be successfully collecting yawns from consumers this year. Now, it seems, there is an honest to goodness threat on the horizon for those brave enough to hit the stores this Friday...
In the retail horse race that is the holiday shopping season, merchants who can get word of their deals out faster and further than their competitors stand to gain when the doors open on Black Friday and the computers boot up on Cyber Monday. Get...
If cash is king, then it has a serious revolution on its hands with what seems like an endless stream of digital wallets storming the castle at every opportunity. However, while retailers and software developers might be backing the cause of mobile payments, customers are...
