Karen Webster

Walmart’s Bid To Go From Supercenter To Super App

Walmart’s Bid To Go From Supercenter To Super App
Walmart’s Bid To Go From Supercenter To Super App
February 23, 2021  |  Retail

Thirty-three years ago, in 1988, in Washington, Missouri, the first Walmart Supercenter opened its doors. The store concept itself took a page from the European...

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Face-To-Face V.2021: What Zoom Teaches Us About The Connected Economy
Face-To-Face V.2021: What Zoom Teaches Us About The Connected Economy
February 01, 2021  |  Commerce Connected

An article published in the Harvard Business Review in August of 2009 posed a question that many airline and travel industry CEOs are pondering 11...

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Retail 2021: The Five Things Retailers Should Be Talking About At NRF This Week
Retail 2021: The Five Things Retailers Should Be Talking About At NRF This Week
January 18, 2021  |  Retail

Every year for the last 110 years, members of the retail trade group, known as the National Retail Federation (NRF), have assembled to discuss the...

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Framing 2021: Six Trendlines That Will Define Payments And The Connected Economy
Framing 2021: Six Trendlines That Will Define Payments And The Connected Economy
January 04, 2021  |  Payments Innovation

Let’s start 2021 being provocative instead of safe with wishy-washy predictions. Karen Webster says let’s drop the prefixes from commerce. Then get our heads wrapped...

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Today In Payments: Trump Signs Stimulus Bill; Square Said To Mull Buy of Jay-Z’s TIDAL Music-Streaming Service
Today In Payments: Trump Signs Stimulus Bill; Square Said To Mull Buy of Jay-Z’s TIDAL...
December 28, 2020  |  News

In today’s top news, President Trump signed the pandemic relief bill Congress passed last week, and Square CEO Jack Dorsey is reportedly interested in buying...

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52 Mondays 2020: The Year Of Speed, Scale And Seismic Shifts in Payments
52 Mondays 2020: The Year Of Speed, Scale And Seismic Shifts in Payments
December 28, 2020  |  Karen Webster

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Is It Time For Apple To Allow Others Access To The iPhone NFC Chip?
Is It Time For Apple To Allow Others Access To The iPhone NFC Chip?
December 21, 2020  |  Payments Innovation

You can see it in the quarterly earnings reports this year of just about every publicly traded company and among the list of companies that...

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Google’s Super App Wakeup Call
Google’s Super App Wakeup Call
November 23, 2020  |  Payments Innovation

In June of 2019, PYMNTS asked a national sample of 1,037 smartphone users about their interest in having a single app that would make their...

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