April 10, 2023
Amazon Ups Its Share of Health and Personal Care Spend...
Amazon is closing in on one of Walmart’s traditional areas of dominance — consumer spending on personal health items — as the two titans continue their contentious dance. As is seen...
April 10, 2023
TikTok Ban Threat Scares Off US Merchants
TikTok is reportedly having trouble attracting American merchants to its online shopping service. A report Monday by The Information says U.S. merchants are both more interested in expanding their brick-and-mortar operations and concerned...
April 10, 2023
ReserveBar Plots Online ‘Destination’ for Alcohol Sales
eCommerce platform ReserveBar has teamed with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS). The partnership, announced in a Monday (April 10) press release, will let consumers who take...
April 10, 2023
Payments Execs Say Q1 ’23 Forced a New Kind of...
While some dark first-quarter 2023 recessionary imaginings came to pass — witness the tech job cuts and the collapse of important financial institutions — so far, 2023 isn’t the apocalypse...
April 10, 2023
South Africa’s RTP Scheme Hopes to Turn Highly Banked, Cash-Centric...
Compared to other African markets which have high levels of unbanked populations, more than 80% of South Africa’s population has access to a bank account. However, that access to financial...
April 07, 2023
Amazon Closes the Book on Book Depository, Underscoring eCommerce’s Evolution
Every so often, we get a reminder of how far we’ve come — and where we’ve come from. It’s hard to recall, at least for some of us, that eCommerce...
April 07, 2023
Asia Innovations Group Adds AI-Powered Capabilities to eCommerce Platform
Asia Innovations Group (ASIG) has added artificial intelligence (AI)-powered capabilities to its eCommerce platform. The Singapore-based company’s international online marketplace, Hekka, now uses its own ASIG_AIGC platform to deliver AI-generated...
April 07, 2023
Retail Drone Delivery At Scale Needs More Runway, But Datasets...
As robotics and drones get added to the tech roadmaps of retailers of every stripe, the fact remains: it’s hard creating commercial robots and autonomous vehicles, as several programs fall...
April 07, 2023
Walmart Hopes Amazon-Like Website Will Boost Subscribers and Revenue
It is an understatement to say that Amazon and Walmart have a strong presence in the U.S. retail shopping space; the two giants dominate the industry and define the market,...
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.