November 10, 2020
Who’s Starting An SMB Amid The COVID Crisis?
The late Roy Ash, financial adviser to U.S. presidents and instrumental in establishing the government’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quoted as saying, “An entrepreneur tends to bite off...
November 03, 2020
Wayfair, Home Furnishings Sector Looks Past COVID Winter
Go home and stay home until we sound the all-clear, they said. So, we did. Being Americans, always seeing new possibilities, it didn’t take long for work-from-home lockdowns to transmute...
November 02, 2020
What Sticks? Digital-First Changes Show Signs Of Permanence
In years to come, it’ll be hard to find anything as studied and surveyed as COVID-19’s effects on commerce. And while most predictions are at best, informed speculation, certain aspects...
November 02, 2020
Pandenomics
PYMNTS DATA AND ANALYTICS Pandenomics This study series measures the impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic on consumer and merchant behavior and explores the accelerated shift to a digital-first world....
October 20, 2020
‘Pandenomics’ Report: Digital-First Dominates COVID-Era Spending
It’s that time of the year when the leaf-peepers and early-gifters start thinking about the winter holidays and familiar routines of budgeting and buying. This year, of course, there are...
October 17, 2020
Hard Times For Soft Drinks As Coca-Cola Puts The Lid...
Tab, shift, delete. It’s our cryptic way of conveying the hurtful news that Tab, one of America’s proto-diet colas and the “drink of beautiful people” since 1963 will shuffle off...
October 16, 2020
Direct-To-Consumer Surges As Physical Stores Languish
Direct-to-consumer (D2C) selling has taken wing with the ascendance of eCommerce to retail’s throne. What was once a small but meaningful constituency — online shoppers — suddenly seem to be...
September 29, 2020
Building Better B2B Payment Practices In The Construction Trade
Time is money. The manual processes behind B2B payments translate into inefficient use of human capital, and a lag in the time it takes to get paid. Accounts receivable (AR)...
September 17, 2020
Digital Onboarding Comes To Higher Education
Universities are getting schooled in “pandenomics” — a portmanteau of “pandemic” and “economics” coined by PYMNTS to describe manifestations of COVID-era financial change in different verticals. Higher education is not...
