Sizzle Self-checkout: Check yourself, as the song says. And in retail, the checking yourself is literal and increasing. As many as 70 percent of shoppers have used this option at grocers, per the PYMNTS Self-Service Kiosk report. Shows the lure of speed and choice in the checkout experience,...
Sizzle IPOs: See a renaissance of sorts, topping $35 billion in 2018, amid the fastest pace in 20 years and among verticals as far-flung as wholesale clubs and FinTech firms. The volume is the highest seen since 2014. Capital is flowing and investors’ pulses are...
Fizzle of the Week: Exactis “Records are made to be broken.” That famous quote has been assigned, in some variation, to Richard Branson, Michael Phelps, Red Auerbach, Karl Malone and Jackie Joyner-Kersee. And it’s possible that all of these people in fact said this at...
The best way to describe an initial public offering (IPO) that jumps double digits out of the gate? “Nothing new.” On closer look, however, the best way to describe one that jumps more than 70 percent the first day? If you’re a skeptic, it’s “too...
Sizzle of the Week: Retail’s 2018 Rebound Retail has had a rough couple of years, as most players that aren’t Amazon have struggled to cross the digital, omnichannel chasm. On the whole, with some notable exceptions, retail has landed on our Fizzle list more often than the Sizzle list in recent...
Snapchat’s Sizzly Fizzle, or Fizzly Sizzle Usually in this column the sizzles and the fizzles are pretty distinct. But every so often there’s a player that managed to do a little of both at the same time, and this was one of those weeks. The player:...
Sizzle of the Week: Autonomous Driving Gets Back in the Saddle It had been a rough few week for the much buzzed-about autonomous vehicles of the future. Just last week, it found itself sitting prominently in the Fizzle side of this column after emerging reports that...
Fizzle of the Week: Victoria’s Secret The results are in for Victoria Secret’s Q1 performance, and they’re nothing to swoon over. Following the quarterly check-in with parent firm L Brands, which also owns Bath & Body Works and the youth-oriented PINK lingerie brand, the reviews have...
Sizzle Of The Week: The Race for Grocery Gold Much of commerce activity is ruled by tastes, trends and the occasional fad; what we buy is very much dependent on popular mood. The Queen has requested that guests wear hats to this weekend’s royal wedding,...
