Target made its name off of aggressively priced yet mainstream chic apparel selection, but a new partnership with a forward-thinking startup could add an even more affordable category of clothes to its stores. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
Retailers have always worked on a sliding schedule: release a product, wait a few months, check the sales data to measure performance and adjust prices accordingly. In the age before computers and eCommerce, this was a comparatively leisurely timetable. Now, retailers that fail to adapt in...
As the business week comes closer to a close, there's still plenty of big news breaking across the payments and commerce world. Square's IPO, First Data's public price plans, MasterCard's mobile push, Uber SMB delivery, and Apple's court troubles.
Banks and businesses both want a faster way to move money, data and a variety of other financial services products across physical and digital borders, and for different reasons. Theories abound about how to do that – and why David Kretz, Head of Global Payments...
While Amazon is known for trying its luck in a number of different ventures (think grocery delivery, streaming devices and even drones), travel will no longer be one of them. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...
As eCommerce retailers continue to siphon off sales from their in-store counterparts, brick-and-mortar merchants across the country have tried to come up with a way to attract customers back through their doors. At the same time that high-tech solutions — such as location-based beacon marketing...
Halloween isn’t usually thought of as a big consumer holiday, but the lead-up to it has given rise to a peculiar trend among U.S. shoppers: a deep and abiding love for pumpkin flavoring. Fast becoming a symbol of the start of fall, pumpkin flavoring can now...
The world’s largest watchmaker by revenue, Swatch, is attempting to develop the next big thing in wearables for the Chinese market. This places it squarely in competition with Apple, which has been working overtime lately to push its high-end smartwatch to the average Chinese consumer. Get...
Once businesses manage to get a handshake deal in place with a client, the modus operandi is usually to remove any and all obstacles in the client’s way to closing that sale. With a streamlined sales quote system from a fast-rising startup, frictionless transactions may...
