March 20, 2023
Rite Aid Teams With Amazon to Offer 2-Hour Delivery
Amazon has added another retailer to its stable of home-delivery partners. The eCommerce giant has teamed up with pharmacy chain Rite Aid to offer two-hour delivery to Amazon Prime members...
March 20, 2023
Small Merchants Focus on Digital to Capture Sales From Enterprise...
Small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are sometimes portrayed as the underdogs in a fight against larger companies to win customers. It is said that the Amazons and Walmarts of the...
March 20, 2023
Why Mercedes Benz Is Building the Operating System for In-Car...
The idea of the car as a software platform on wheels is not new. The idea of the car as a commerce operating system is. Mercedes Benz, which traces its...
March 19, 2023
PhonePe Raises $200 Million From Former Parent Walmart
India’s FinTech platform PhonePe has raised another $200 million, this time with the help of Walmart. The funding, announced Friday (March 17), comes one month after the company announced it...
March 17, 2023
DoorDash Expands Grocery Offerings as Supermarkets Tap Robotics
This week in grocery, DoorDash adds merchants, and Co-op taps delivery robotics and retailers automate inventory. DoorDash, the United States’ leading aggregator, has been leveraging grocery to attract more customers. On Tuesday...
March 17, 2023
Grocers Split on How to Handle Demand for Free Delivery
Free shipping can be key to securing customer loyalty, but grocers struggle with the cost. The Context Shipping perishable foods and/or delivering them via courier can be extremely costly. As...
March 17, 2023
Grabango: The Next Generation of Shopping Is Checkout-Free
As self-checkout evolves, point-of-sale tech startup Grabango maintains all future shopping will be autonomous. In an interview with PYMNTS, the company’s Chief Revenue Officer Andy Radlow said that autonomous technology would eventually replace...
March 17, 2023
Smaller Retailers Without Rewards Programs Risk Losing Inflation-Weary Customers
Everyone loves a bargain, but small- and medium-sized business (SMB) retailers have been pulling back from promotional codes and rewards recently. As noted in proprietary data prepared for PYMNTS’ collaboration...
March 16, 2023
Inflation and Double-Digit Volume Declines Push FedEx to Realign Its...
In the face of macro headwinds, FedEx is pulling on the operational levers it can pull. And that involves throttling back on some operations — including air and international activity....
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.