May 02, 2023
How D2C Brands Like Warby Parker Are Making Physical Stores...
As shoppers resume their in-store experiences, brands and retailers are reassessing their selling strategies. Retailers are seeking to enhance their interactive displays to entice more consumers, while brands are striving...
May 02, 2023
Tuesday Morning Shuts Doors Amid Retail Bankruptcies
After declaring bankruptcy twice in as many years, discount retailer Tuesday Morning is folding. “Starting today, we have begun the process of closing all our stores,” the company said in...
May 01, 2023
GoDaddy Lets Merchants Accept Payments Via Microsoft Teams
GoDaddy and Microsoft have teamed to let small businesses accept customer payments during Microsoft Teams meetings. “GoDaddy is one of three commerce providers Microsoft selected for this launch, citing GoDaddy...
May 01, 2023
BigCommerce Retools B2B eCommerce Platform and Adds Multi-Stores
BigCommerce has added new functionalities to its B2B eCommerce platform for suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers. The latest release of the company’s B2B Edition introduces multi-storefront compatibility, a modernized buyer...
May 01, 2023
Consumers’ Mid-Inflation Shift to Home Cooking Creates Contextual Commerce Opportunities
As consumers seek budget-friendly alternatives to dining out, shoppable recipes are catching on, according to Chicory. The contextual commerce platform, which announced last month the expansion of its partnership with...
May 01, 2023
PYMNTS Intelligence: How Payments Orchestration Can Help Marketplaces Retain Merchant...
Consumers are craving digital payment experiences, the pandemic having whetted their appetites by expanding digital use to a wider range of retail transactions. PYMNTS research found that 30% of consumers...
April 30, 2023
China Seeks Spike in Travel and Shopping Following Pandemic
China is reportedly seeing a sharp increase in post-COVID travel and consumer activity. A Sunday (April 30) report by Bloomberg News, citing data from local media and the government, said...
April 28, 2023
Amazon Fresh Goes Stale as New Grocery Options Considered
As Amazon continues its brick-and-mortar grocery efforts, it seems likelier that Amazon Fresh is history. On a call with analysts discussing the eCommerce giant’s first-quarter financial results Thursday (April 27), CEO Andy Jassy built...
April 28, 2023
Big Tech Leans on AI to Stabilize After Brutal Year
It has been a challenging period for even the largest players in the tech industry. But this week’s earnings show that sector leaders like Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta are...
The U.S., U.K. and Europe are intensifying their efforts to develop and deploy the policies and infrastructure necessary to advance the use cases and real time payments volume of their domestic networks. This month’s “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, explores the progress and future developments of real-time payments across these regions.
Despite the tremendous growth in Click-and-Mortar™ shopping in Brazil over the last three years, the country’s retailers don’t offer 39% of the features that consumers want. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study, the “2024 Global Digital Shopping Index: Brazil Edition” commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions, draws on insights from 2,200 consumers and 622 merchants to reveal what Brazil’s merchants need to know to drive consumer satisfaction and loyalty.