April 27, 2023
eBay Doubles Down on Luxury Sector Despite Cudoni Shutdown
Cudoni, a luxury resale platform backed by eBay, announced its shutdown earlier this week, citing the economic climate as the reason for its unfeasible operations. This has raised concerns about...
April 27, 2023
Who Waits 7 Weeks for a Personalized Hairbrush? Apparently BaubleBar...
BaubleBar has made an entire business around customization, initially with jewelry and later expanding to phone cases. While this may appear to be a niche product at first glance, consumer...
April 27, 2023
From Payments Choice to Gateway Preference: Payments Orchestration 2.0 Helps...
With the rise of eCommerce bringing more retailers than shoppers could ever exhaust, consumer-facing businesses of all types fear cart abandonment above nearly everything else. Never has it been easier...
April 26, 2023
Houzz Adds Tap to Pay to Home Remodeling Platform
Houzz now enables residential contractors and design professionals to quickly collect electronic payments in person. The company has equipped Houzz Pro, its platform for home remodeling and design, with a...
April 26, 2023
Celerant and Sezzle Partner to Help Retailers Offer BNPL
Celerant Technology has partnered with Sezzle to enable retailers to offer buy now, pay later (BNPL). With this collaboration, retailers can add the Sezzle Pay BNPL consumer financing solution to...
April 26, 2023
Kroger-Albertsons Merger Presents Brick-and-Mortar Grocery Opportunity for Amazon
With Kroger and Albertsons’ merger expected to result in the divestiture of hundreds of locations, to meet antitrust requirements, there may be an opportunity for others looking to grow their...
April 26, 2023
Amazon May Buy Divested Kroger, Albertsons Stores
Amazon has the resources, and potential drive to buy hundreds of grocery stores that Kroger and Albertsons are slated to divest, according to analysts at Bernstein research firm, reports Business Insider. With Kroger and Albertsons’ merger expected...
April 26, 2023
GrubMarket Launches Payment Platform for Food Wholesalers and Distributors
GrubMarket has launched a payment platform designed for food wholesalers and distributors. The new GrubPay platform enables GrubMarket’s customers to directly accept and manage payments via ACH, credit card and...
April 26, 2023
Target Begins Nationwide Rollout of Curbside Returns Service
Target has begun the nationwide rollout of its curbside returns service. The retailer launched the service at about 500 stores last week, CNBC reported Wednesday (April 26). Target announced in...
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.
The United Arab Emirates boasts a robust digital market, with 89% of retail shoppers leveraging digital tools in physical stores and the second highest ranking in customer satisfaction among the six countries studied. A new 31-page PYMNTS Intelligence report, “2024 Global Digital Shopping Index: UAE Edition,” commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions, examines the state of digital shopping in this country where merchants are challenged to keep pace with shopper’s digital needs.