March 27, 2024
Buybuy Baby Uses Expert Curation to Compete With Amazon
As specialty retailers are challenged to find ways to hold their own against retail giants such as Amazon, Buybuy Baby is leaning on its specialty selection to keep customers coming back to its...
March 27, 2024
Banks Need to Copy eCommerce’s ‘Friction-Free’ Experiences
Eric Foust, VP of Banking Partnerships, North America at Trustly, said that in the wake of the pandemic, consumers are looking toward banks to deliver the same ease of use and...
March 27, 2024
Bank of America: Digital Evolution Demands ‘High-Tech and High-Touch’ Approach
Rich Clow, managing director and head of innovation and strategy, Global Payments Solutions, Bank of America, told PYMNTS that omnichannel demands are pointing banks toward a seamless continuum of digital and...
March 26, 2024
Retailers Expand Smart Cart Adoption to Boost Self-Checkout and Lower...
Across continents, more retailers are adopting smart carts to lower their labor costs without driving up shrink. Instacart and Associated Wholesale Growers (AWG) shared Monday (March 25) that they have expanded their partnership to offer...
March 26, 2024
D2C Brand Builds Loyalty Offline, Gets New Customers In-Store
For brands relying on senses that cannot be communicated via eCommerce — smell, taste, touch — it can be difficult to build a pure-play direct-to-consumer (D2C) audience. Broken Top Candle...
March 26, 2024
Banks Invest in Digital Differentiation to Remain Relevant
If video killed the radio star, then what has digitization done to the banking landscape? Well, some observers believe it may have just given the industry a new lease on...
March 25, 2024
Instacart and AWG Partner to Ease Access to Grocery Technology
Instacart and Associated Wholesale Growers (AWG) have expanded their partnership to offer eCommerce and same-day delivery solutions to AWG’s member retailers. This extended collaboration will simplify members’ access to Instacart’s grocery technology...
March 25, 2024
Retailers Reduce Reliance on Shopping Centers Even as Gen Z...
Amid ongoing uncertainty, retailers are scaling back their reliance on in-mall locations, even as the new generation of shoppers flocks to these shopping centers. On the most recent wave of...
March 25, 2024
QR Codes and Faster Payments May Hasten Rise of Super...
Decades after being introduced, QR codes may help super apps take shape and gain even more momentum across the globe. Quick response (QR) codes first debuted in 1994 in Japan,...
