December 28, 2022
Foot Locker Winds Down Sportswear Brand Business Eastbay.com
Foot Locker is sunsetting its Eastbay.com sportswear brand business. The unit’s distribution operations are to start winding down in January, and its Wausau, Wisconsin, facility is to be shut down...
December 28, 2022
Credit Unions Set Sights on Financial Wellness for 2022
For credit unions, helping consumers achieve financial wellness will be top-of-mind in 2023. But as Yvonne Stelpflug, senior vice president of Advisors Plus Consulting at PSCU, told PYMNTS, CUs will...
December 27, 2022
UK Boxing Day Retail Footfall Down 25%
Compared to 2019, U.K.’s Boxing Day retail traffic dropped by about 25%. A popular shopping day, when retailers in the country launch their after-Christmas sales, Boxing Day (Dec. 26) has...
December 27, 2022
Digital-First Shoppers Top 2022 Retail Technology Trends
In 2022, trends in retail technology materialized or matured in a year that defied predictions. Confining our scope to just what happened in retail, PYMNTS notes that many, if not...
December 22, 2022
The Digital Markets Act, EU Competition Enforcement and Fundamental Rights:...
This article discusses some of the implications of the entry in force of the Digital Markets Act for the future application of the EU Competition rules in digital markets and...
December 21, 2022
Amazon and Walmart Market Share Battle Crossed New Lines In...
The epic battle for wallet share between Amazon and Walmart entered uncharted waters in 2022. Tracking the action in the PYMNTS Amazon Versus Walmart report series, the year began with...
December 21, 2022
FedEx Earnings Put Discretionary Spending In Spotlight as Package Volume...
Declining package volumes in the latest FedEx earnings report stoked new concerns about discretionary spending. This was after the company reported its fiscal second-quarter earnings Tuesday (Dec 19) night, which included its...
December 20, 2022
Online Habits Highlight Digital Economy Gender Gap
Gender equality hasn’t yet reached the digital economy — and retailers can capitalize on this divide. PYMNTS research has found that women overall make fewer transactions than men in nearly...
December 20, 2022
Effects of Government Surveillance on Competition
Following on from the shock of the Snowden revelations, it is now well established empirically that chilling effects from government surveillance and other privacy violations exist, that they can at...
