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American consumers bought more goods and services in the second quarter of 2016, according to a report on Tuesday (Aug. 2) from Reuters. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no...
It doesn’t matter if they sell snacks, cosmetics or a collection of nerdy knick-knacks – subscription retail programs have taken the market by storm. There’s not a retailer out there that wouldn’t jump at the chance to automate and optimize the steady revenue that these services provide, but with...
Payments innovators had to do away with a pretty large assumption early on in the process of updating worldwide payments systems – societies need not achieve peak-cash-using status before moving onto a cashless stage. Southeast Asia is full of examples of this payments sublimation, and...
When the phrase “consumer confidence” is thrown around, it’s usually in relation to how convincing a brand has been at telling shoppers they’re the one to buy. However, fast-casual restaurants are finding out that, when things get ugly in both the political sphere and that...
It was Mark Twain who said, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.” And while that’s all true, a new study appears to highlight an added effect of cross-border sojourns that Twain missed: a willingness to spend, spend, spend on luxury goods. Get the...
Of all the changes wrought in the retail world as it navigated from bricks and mortar to clicks and servers, somehow the impulse buy has managed to stick around. At first, it might have been just candy bars and packets of gum in checkout aisles,...
It hasn’t taken long for retailers to fall in love with chatbots. Everyone from mega-corporations like Facebook to small businesses looking for a helping hand on the customer service front have at least experimented with the automated messaging tools, and a simple Google search will...
Ready or not, automation is coming to retail. Whether it’s Amazon’s delivery drones or in-store robots that scan a warehouse’s worth of inventory in a matter of minutes, unattended commerce will be a fact of future life. Until that happens, though, retailers better not lose...
