consumer insights

Germany’s eCommerce Love Affair, US Businesses In The Dark And Waves Of Wearables
Germany’s eCommerce Love Affair, US Businesses In The Dark And Waves Of Wearables
November 23, 2015  |  B2B Payments

Few industries have the stream of data that retail does to self-reflexively judge itself in real time. However, last week brought a trove of information...

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Can Amazon Gift Card Rewards Save Coin?
Can Amazon Gift Card Rewards Save Coin?
November 23, 2015  |  Mobile Commerce

Rewards programs often falter because the kickbacks customers receive can be hard to redeem at best and downright useless at worst. However, the digital card...

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REI Plays With Black Friday PR Fire, Gets Burned
REI Plays With Black Friday PR Fire, Gets Burned
November 20, 2015  |  Hmmm

REI might have been riding high after its announcement to close stores on Black Friday, but a Reddit interview with CEO Jerry Stritzke turned sour.

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FTV Capital Predicts Year Of Payments Growth In 2016
FTV Capital Predicts Year Of Payments Growth In 2016
November 19, 2015  |  Mobile Commerce

The PYMNTS team caught up with experts in the payments field to ask them their views on industry trends, predictions for the coming year and...

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Macy’s Customers Drive A Discounting Addiction
Macy’s Customers Drive A Discounting Addiction
November 18, 2015  |  Consumer Insights

In an age when retailers fight tooth and nail to retain every customer, brands are used to offering extra incentives to sweeten the pot for reluctant...

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Millennials Can’t Hold Onto Their Gift Cards
Millennials Can’t Hold Onto Their Gift Cards
November 18, 2015  |  Hmmm

There’s no gift that says, “It’s the thought that counts,” quite like a gift card. The last-minute choice of harried shoppers and slackers alike, the...

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Will Shoppers Tighten Their Holiday Purse Strings?
Will Shoppers Tighten Their Holiday Purse Strings?
November 18, 2015  |  News

Until now, the main struggle retailers had to contend with was the push-pull relationship between online marketplaces and brick-and-mortar stores. Now, though, retailers might have to...

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Elle’s Beacon Breakthrough Uses Curated Fashion Deals
Elle’s Beacon Breakthrough Uses Curated Fashion Deals
November 16, 2015  |  Cool

A hundred years ago, Hearst’s broadsheets and Pulitzer’s newspapers dominated not only how average Americans got their news, but also how advertisers reached their audiences....

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