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Crate And Barrel: Personalizing The Shopping Experience For A Digital-First Buyer
Crate And Barrel: Personalizing The Shopping Experience For A Digital-First Buyer
September 17, 2020  |  Commerce Connected

Consumers were shopping, transacting and interacting with merchants via online or mobile channels well before the COVID-19 pandemic’s onset, but the global health crisis has...

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Federal Workers Allowed To Purchase Supplies From Online Retailers
Federal Workers Allowed To Purchase Supplies From Online Retailers
July 06, 2020  |  B2B Payments

Federal workers, through partnerships with several online retailers, will now be able to purchase equipment like desks or office supplies through an eCommerce network for...

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AI Powers Digital Shift In Grocery
AI Powers Digital Shift In Grocery
May 26, 2020  |  Retail

Artificial intelligence (AI) is entering the retail mainstream. Domino’s uses it to set pizza delivery times. Sephora’s ColorIQ scans shoppers’ skin to provide custom recommendations for foundation...

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Grocery Startup Missfresh To Close On $500M In Expansion Financing
Grocery Startup Missfresh To Close On $500M In Expansion Financing
May 22, 2020  |  Investments

Beijing’s Missfresh Ecommerce Co., a Chinese grocery delivery startup, is expected to receive more than $500 million in expansion financing as COVID-19 has fueled demand...

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Wine For The Win: Consumers Stock Up With Online Retail
Wine For The Win: Consumers Stock Up With Online Retail
May 14, 2020  |  Retail

Consumers may not have returned to their pre-crisis shopping behaviors, but they are setting records for drinking wine. Every online wine company that reports sales...

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Balancing Gig Workers’ Desire For Work Flexibility, With The Need For A Steady Paycheck
Balancing Gig Workers’ Desire For Work Flexibility, With The Need For A Steady Paycheck
May 08, 2020  |  Gig Economy

Businesses and consumers still see the new coronavirus’s reverberating effects upon their finances and lives. Gig workers have been particularly affected by the pandemic, as...

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Square Merchants Shift Online As POS Volumes Sink
Square Merchants Shift Online As POS Volumes Sink
May 07, 2020  |  Earnings

Square reported earnings Wednesday (May 6) for the first quarter that showed slowing gross payment volumes, impacted by the pandemic and the shuttering of merchant...

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When Digital First Became Digital Only — And What It Means For Digital Identity
When Digital First Became Digital Only — And What It Means For Digital Identity
April 08, 2020  |  Digital Identity

Before COVID-19 arrived on the scene at pandemic scale and upended nearly every corner of day-to-day life for consumers and businesses all over the world,...

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