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834RetailWhat To Expect From Back-To-School Shopping
There is no set national date for the beginning of school in the United States because there is no set date to go back...
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3.1KDigital PaymentsMoney-Inspired Music And Why Hip Hop Tops The Charts
It used to be all about the Benjamins, all about the cold hard cash – in this case, U.S. $100 bills, as...
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3.3KRetailTo Dream The Impossible Meatless Dream?
In the year 2000, if one had stood on a street corner and predicted that in two decades, the biggest craze to...
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5.1KRetailThat Inexplicable In-N-Out Burger, And Marketing Stunt #Fails
This week, the world was presented with a truly unusual retail mystery: The Case of the Inexplicable In-N-Out Burger. The story starts...
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3.7KInnovationCan Elon Musk Turn The Human Brain Into A Connected Device?
It can never be said that Elon Musk has a problem thinking big. That can be seen from his early days as one...
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2.7KInnovationMonopoly Goes Cashless And Board Games Gain Popularity
In this age of live multi-player online gaming, and virtual reality, and all things digital, it can be easy to think of...
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2.5KRetailStranger Summer Payments Things
While there are many things to love about summer – vacations, the beach, BBQs, fireworks, amusement parks and so on – in...
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7.8KInnovationeCommerce … The 1950s Way
Despite the fact that eCommerce has become a way of life in the last two decades, it is harder than it might...
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2.0KInnovationInnovative Approaches To The $4.2T Health And Wellness Market
It seems every firm is trying to find a way into the expansive — and ever-growing — “health and wellness” market. As...
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1.7KTravel PaymentsAdventure Travel And Beyond — Summer Vacation’s New Norm
Summer is here and while schools nationwide are emptying, families across the U.S. are readying for the annual pilgrimage to beaches, national...
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1.5KCashWhy Cash Is Still King On Graduation Day
For the last several weeks, and for a few more to come, students at the nation’s high schools and colleges are donning their gowns...
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2.0KRetailOutside The Box (And Inside The Storage Container) Solutions To Sky-High Rent
More American adults own their homes than rent them – fewer than two-thirds own, while a little over one-third rent. Those numbers have been relatively...
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1.8KRetailThe Unofficial Guide To Buzzworthy Grilling And Beyond
This weekend, Americans will celebrate Memorial Day – the official recognition of all who have served in the U.S. armed forces and lost their...
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4.1KInnovationHave Consumers Fallen Out Of Love With Robots?
We confess: We hate doing household chores, cooking and running errands – and we suspect you do, too. And the promise of a modern-day version...
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4.9KRetailWhen QSRs Think Really Outside The Box In The Innovation Race
The realm of quick service restaurants (QSRs) is and actually always has been a pretty innovative space. The drive-thru window, for example,...
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1.9KSubscriptionsPayments Goes To The Movies
There were two very different stories about the American movie business floating around in the media this week. One was big and...
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5.0KInnovationSpring Break Goes High-Tech
From smart bags to social media, spring break is becoming a surprisingly digital and high-tech travel period in the U.S. The words...
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4.5KRetailWhat’s Your Commerce Horoscope?
There are many mechanisms in the market designed to help match consumers to offerings that are suited to them. Better algorithms, visual...
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6.4KRetailWhat ‘The Simpsons,’ Art And Millennials Have In Common
The art world can be a strange place. While this is a fact well-known to art collectors, even non-collectors got a taste of just...
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6.1KRetailPutting A Famous Face To A Product
Celebrity-backed brands are nothing new. As PYMNTS has previously reported, the original celebrity-endorsed products date back as the far as the 1760s, when the...
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4.0KRetailSpace: The Final Travel Commerce Frontier
“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek...
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6.8KInternet of ThingsThe Great Facebook Fumble – And The Economic Damage Done
Every day, in nearly every corner of the world, 1.4 billion people log onto Facebook and 500 million people log onto Instagram. On Wednesday (March...
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5.2KInternationalThe Tie That Binds? The Royal Instagram And Brexit Preppers
Over the centuries, the British have gained a reputation for a certain steadiness of character, best epitomized via the “Keep Calm and Carry...
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5.7KRetailCracking Down On The Counterfeit Culture
All Deborah Copaken really wanted was a warm coat. A good coat. A Canada Goose coat. Sure, it cost more than $900...
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9.1KNewsVenmo, Girl Scouts And Bitcoin: The Week In Unexpected Upsides
Usually when we talk about unintended consequences here at PYMNTS, we are talking about something that has gone terribly wrong, or at...
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4.8KNewsAmazon HQ2, JPM Coin And The Weird, Wild Week Of Payments’ Left Turns
There is no such thing as a boring week in payments, of course. Every seven-day period is good for at least one unexpected twist....
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4.7KPayments InnovationBeyond Flying Cars: Predictions That Weren’t Necessarily On The Money
Welcome, valued PYMNTS readers, to the weekend. No doubt you worked hard, and chances are you put in more than 40 hours...
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4.7KRetailWhy The Dollars Are Actually The Greatest Show On Turf
Rumor has it, there is some sort of football competition happening in Atlanta this weekend. We are mostly kidding about that. As PYMNTS is Boston-based,...
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5.5KInnovationBitcoin And Dented Radishes: This Week’s Hype Penalty Box Nominees
“Hype” is defined by Webster’s Dictionary as “to promote or publicize (a product or idea) intensively, often exaggerating its importance or benefits.”...
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4.9KRetailWhy The Sweet Smell Of Tech Success Can Be Rife With Failure
In 1946, a few weeks before Christmas, Frank Capra’s Christmastime classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” was released in theaters. It was mostly...
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5.7KRetailBots And Outside-The-Bots, CES 2019: Payments And Commerce Highlights
There was a lot about CES in Las Vegas last week that was predictable. Google and Amazon competed for voice-activated mindshare. There...
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8.3KRetailHow Fortnite Turned ‘Free’ Into $3B In Profits
Until extremely recently, the word “fortnight” was a fancy way to say “two weeks” – and it wasn’t likely to come up...
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5.8KEconomy2018: The Year Of The Confident Consumer
What a difference a decade makes. Ten years ago, consumer confidence had slipped to an all-time low, and consumer spending followed it...
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6.4KRetailThinking Outside The Holiday Gift Box
The Christmas countdown is upon us. And with just single-digit shopping days left, the countdown is on to find that perfect gift...
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6.8KGig EconomyCan The Gig Economy Stress-Bust The Holidays?
While the holiday season is officially known as the most wonderful time of the year, for the majority of American consumers, it...
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5.9KPayments InnovationAre QR Codes The Salvation Army’s Digital Salvation?
Pull any list of “top 10 Christmas carols” from the web, and it will quickly become obvious that bells are deeply important to people...
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10.3KeCommerceThe Art And Science Of Making Embarrassing Purchases More Private
These are amazing times to be a consumer who suffers from retail embarrassment. Both science and digital technology are making it easier...
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6.3KRetailGuess What? Black Friday Started The Day After Halloween.
Once upon a time, the holiday shopping season had a very, very well-defined start date. The day after Thanksgiving has been known...
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6.3KRetailThis Weekend’s $25B Shopping Event
When Singles Day launched nearly a decade ago, the then-fledgling eCommerce brand Alibaba didn’t really think they were changing the face of...
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6.4KDataThe $5B Midterm Elections And The Big Costs Of Big Data
Politics is not our normal beat here at PYMNTS. But the 2018 midterms has changed our thinking, and for one reason: 2018 will...
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5.7KCommerceTrick Or Treat (Payments And Commerce Style)
Halloween is the scariest day of the year for children and parents alike – though for very different reasons. For kids, the proliferation...
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5.5KCommerceHappy Birthday To PYMNTS
On this day in history in the year 2009, the world of payments and commerce was changed forever. The skies parted, the...
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5.3KArtificial IntelligenceIt’s Not Smart Tech If It’s Foolish
When English mountaineer George Mallory was asked in 1923 by The New York Times why he wanted to attempt to climb Mount Everest...
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4.9KMerchant InnovationWhy Tech Fails Can (Sometimes) Be Inconveniently Fun
Some failures of technology are very serious. On Jan. 13, 2018, an emergency alert text went out all over Hawaii telling residents...
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4.2KDataData’s Influence And Contactless Vending, In Style At Fashion Week
This week, New York celebrated its 75th fall Fashion Week, with all the pomp, glamour, celebrity and hype that defines the event. The city was...
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5.7KRetailThe Kaepernick Controversy And Nike’s High-Risk Strategy
With 12 words, one photo and a tweet, Nike has managed to capture the news cycle this week – and much of...
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5.0KRetailDriving, Grilling And Surfing (For Deals) — Labor Day Weekend’s On
The unofficial end of summer is upon us. But before everyone can contentedly begin sipping their pumpkin spice latte and start Christmas...
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5.3KRetailThe Esoteric Economics Of Feeling The Burn
The Burn is upon us. This weekend, the hippest, coolest, most connected and most creative will converge on Nevada’s Black Rock desert...
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5.5KCashWhy Cash Was King For The Queen Of Soul
“Oooh, your kisses, sweeter than honey/ But guess what? So’s my money.” Writing about Aretha in a 2016 profile for The New Yorker, writer...
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5.0KArtificial IntelligenceThe Rumor-Filled Race For The Connected Car Future
Americans do a lot of driving. According to the latest edition of the American Driving Survey, each Americans spends about 290 hours a...
