Americans hit the road en masse this weekend. A little-known fact is that Columbus Day is actually the second most road traffic-producing holiday of the year, following only Thanksgiving. Nationwide, citizens have set out to leaf peep (in the Northeast), drink cider and enjoy the...
The 1859 management group had a loyalty problem — or more specifically they knew they had a problem rewarding loyalty. It wasn’t that guests didn’t like their hotels — quite the opposite. Their luxury and historical properties throughout Texas, Kentucky and Colorado were all very popular...
In retail it is always more or less raining data. With hundreds of millions of consumers, millions of stores, hundreds of thousands of miles of infrastructure and an ever-accelerating proliferation of products to make $4 trillion worth of buying and selling that happens each year...
Every merchant wants to build loyalty with customers, but — given the number of channels and access points that are available to the shopper — not all of them know how to make it happen. Brad LaRock, Vice President of Client Marketing Services at Digital...
Everyone has a friend or family member who can turn even the simplest restaurant order into a Herculean ordeal. The person who goes to McDonald’s and orders a Big Mac, only to ask for substitutions for a full half of the components, the cousin who...
Hurricane Joaquin may have weakened substantially as it made its way up the East Coast this weekend, but the torrent of news that was payments and commerce last week was anything but sparing. As always, the Data Dive is ready to refresh you about everything...
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After all the excitement and pageantry that was Apple’s Big Event in San Francisco last week, the team at Apple is now back at work. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
WhatsApp is one of the most expensive, if not valuable property in the Facebook stable. About time it started making money?
