June 21, 2016
Amazon Boosts Offline Sales In India With Vodafone
India only just gave Apple the green light hours ago to set up stores inside its borders, but Amazon has been operating there for quite some time. And while the eCommerce giant is...
June 21, 2016
What Apple’s India Victory Says About Amazon’s Paris Troubles
Apple and Amazon are so ubiquitous in just about every country in the Western world that it’s difficult to imagine an entire country resistant to the idea of one or...
June 21, 2016
‘Alexa, Who Won The 2016 PYMNTS/Alexa Challenge?’
“Alexa, show me who snagged the top spots in the 2016 PYMNTS/Alexa Challenge.” Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to...
June 20, 2016
Winners For The 2016 PYMNTS.com/Alexa Challenge
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June 20, 2016
Why Parisians Are Less Than Excited For Amazon Grocery Arrival
Of the hundred of things Paris is famous for, the thousands of independent bookstores, cafes and grocers that dot the corners of it arrondissements contribute to the City of Light’s...
June 20, 2016
SuperValu Heads Toward Grocery Spin-Off
TV spinoffs have plenty of blemishes on their record, with few surviving past their often mercifully short first seasons. The same story also plays out in the retail sphere: When...
June 20, 2016
Amazon’s Portland Plans Prove B&M Bookstores Aren’t For Books
A handful of years ago, the very mention of a physical Amazon bookstore would be enough to get laughed out of a room. How quickly things change. Friday (June 17)...
June 20, 2016
Another On-Demand Delivery Service Shifts Gears
Since Amazon made on-demand delivery the feature of choice for any retailer capable of delivering it, plenty of merchants who had no business doing so had no choice but to...
June 20, 2016
Payments’ Innovation Half-Year Progress Report
At the start of the year, I wrote a piece that outlined six trends that I suggested would set the agenda for payments innovation and commerce reinvention in 2016. The...
