March 02, 2023
Sam’s Club Logistics Push Gives Walmart More Firepower in Grocery...
For Walmart, omnichannel may be the way to beat Amazon in the war to stock the pantry. And Sam’s Club may be a way to get some incremental firepower in...
March 02, 2023
Instacart to Add Chatbot as Grocers Push Boundaries on Digital...
This week in grocery, Instacart taps AI as supermarkets test shoppable content and new formats. OpenAI, creator of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT, announced Wednesday (March 1) that developers are...
March 02, 2023
BNPL’s Consistent Market Share Underpins Installment Plans’ Staying Power
Data demonstrates that any rumors of the installment plan’s demise may have been greatly exaggerated. By most accounts, buy now, pay later (BNPL) and similar installment plans are having their...
March 02, 2023
Kroger Gains Share From Restaurants as Consumers Rethink Food Spending
Kroger is leveraging consumers’ inflation anxieties to capture spending that would otherwise go to restaurants. The nation’s leading pure-play grocer said on a call with analysts Thursday (March 2) discussing...
March 02, 2023
Big Lots CEO Says Higher-Earners Turn to Big Lots for...
Off-price and discount retailers are responding to an increasingly clear divide between deal chasers compared to other bargain shoppers as the opportunistic value-seeking trend has become more defined. This dynamic...
March 02, 2023
B2B Payments Go Digital — or Go to Die
Once businesses go digital, they don’t go back. After all, the future only moves in one direction. That’s according to Luke Trayfoot, chief revenue officer of online marketplace payment technology...
March 02, 2023
Payments Orchestration Saves Merchants Time, People and Money
Payments orchestration can be a valuable resource in meeting the demands that come with adopting new payment methods, Spreedly CEO Justin Benson writes in the new PYMNTS eBook, “2023 Payments...
March 01, 2023
CarGurus, Vroom Show Connected Car’s Journey Starts at Point of...
There are plenty of bumps in the road for auto sales. Inventory is improving but is still constrained, and inflation continues to keep car prices lofty. For the end-to-end platforms...
March 01, 2023
DoorDash and Chase Count on Convenience to Drive Rewards Card...
DoorDash has launched a co-branded credit card as aggregators work hard to gain ground. The San-Francisco-based company Wednesday (March 1) launched its DoorDash Rewards Mastercard, created in partnership with Chase,...
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.