- September 5, 2023
Luxury retailers have established a reputation for their exclusive and upscale offerings, catering to a limited clientele characterized by discerning preferences and substantial financial resources.
Their primary emphasis on premium goods ...
- August 11, 2023
Generative artificial intelligence (AI), particularly OpenAI’s ChatGPT, has become a major trend in retail.
Brands and retailers are integrating it due to consumer demand for interactive experiences. In recent forays, the use of plug-ins ...
- July 16, 2023
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or haven’t been reading your PYMNTS newsletter, you’ve probably noticed that there’s been a massive shift in the way brands and retailers approach customer ...
- April 18, 2023
Mercari has added a ChatGPT-powered shopping assistant to its marketplace platform for secondhand items.
With the new Merchat AI, which is now available in beta across the United States, customers can ...
- March 18, 2022
There’s an old song — ancient, really — that croons, “What a difference a day makes.”
As applied to PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Shopping Apps, it’s a month, not a day, ...
- September 1, 2021
The Japanese secondhand eCommerce site Mercari is partnering with New York buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm Zip (formerly Quadpay) to bring people an easier way to shop for gently ...
- October 6, 2020
Residents of Manhattan and Brooklyn can now use Mercari’s new Mercari Now service in conjunction with Postmates to sell each other goods without having to physically connect, the company announced ...
- August 10, 2020
If America ever needed a digital estate sale — or even a garage sale, for that matter — it’s right now.
Tens of millions of financially strapped or suddenly unemployed people ...
- August 7, 2020
Mercari, the Japanese shopping platform that allows users to buy and sell almost anything, reported its net sales surged nearly 48 percent for the fiscal year ending June 30, but ...
- July 20, 2020
After a boardroom battle in which one side wanted eBay to get back to its roots, the company was rewarded Monday (July 20) by word that it’s close to selling ...
- January 24, 2020
Mercari, the flea market app in Japan with nearly 15 million users, announced Thursday it is purchasing Origami, a payments platform also in Japan. The purchase amount is undisclosed, according ...
- January 13, 2020
There is no shortage of online marketplaces for consumers seeking luxury goods, slightly used. The challenge, however, is knowing they are actually getting the real deal. Counterfeiting is a thriving global ...
- March 27, 2019
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes the tie-up between Mercari and Line for payments in Japan. Mobile payments are on the ...
- June 22, 2018
The best way to describe an initial public offering (IPO) that jumps double digits out of the gate? “Nothing new.”
On closer look, however, the best way to describe one that ...
- June 20, 2018
Flea market app Mercari saw its shares rise 77 percent in its Tokyo stock market debut on Tuesday (June 19) as the rare Japanese unicorn looks towards expansion in the ...
- June 18, 2018
One of the biggest initial public offerings (IPOs) in Japan may herald a sea change across a number of fronts: in payments, how the Japanese population views budgeting and how ...
