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InnovationQSRs Flex Their Creative Cocktail Muscles
It’s a problem that has plagued connoisseurs of fine food and wine for generations...
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RetailHome Reorganization Becomes Big Business In A Stay-At-Home World
Long before COVID-19 turned us all into homebodies, Netflix kicked off a home organization...
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InnovationLabor Day Weekend 2020: Where The Kentucky Derby, Dragon Con...
Every year, Americans cap off the summer with a collective mini-vacation called Labor Day —...
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InnovationThe Robots Are Coming – And Some Are Already Here
Here at PYMNTS, we’ve long bemoaned our lack of a robot butler. “The Jetsons,” after...
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InnovationThe Traditional Events That Are Getting Their Digital Debuts
In the era of COVID-19, as the world is awaiting a vaccine that will...
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RetailWelcome To The Golden Age Of Sweatpants
We’ve witnessed a truly breathtaking amount of innovation amid the pandemic, as firms of...
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CoronavirusCottagecore, Wine Windows And Turning To The Past For Present...
It started with the bread baking. Pushed by shutdown orders, limited supply and millions of...
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RetailSensory Branding: Right Scent, Right Time?
Sensory branding is having a moment. At Dunkin’, consumers can now buy coffee-flavored cereal....
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CoronavirusHow ‘Baseball In A Bubble’ Is Changing America’s Pastime
After a long delay, lots of negotiations and millions of desperate fans becoming concerned...
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Safety and SecuritySummer 2020’s Hottest Accessory: The Safety Bubble
It’s been 129 days since the NBA officially announced its shutdown and played its...
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NewsWhat To Watch And Read This Weekend: Pandemic Edition
Like everyone else, the PYMNTS staff is working from home and using the weekends...
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RetailThe Six Retail CEOs Who Could Set Off Fireworks This...
Retail CEOs faced a parade of problems in 2020’s first six months, but some...
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RetailThe Unexpected Ways Dining Out Is Evolving
When COVID-19 exploded into a global pandemic that more or less shut down everything...
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Social CommerceForget Twitter And Instagram, Big Brands Are Moving To TikTok
We’ve all heard the phrase “sing for your supper” — an allusion to days of...
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InnovationThe 'Quarantini' And Other Post-Pandemic Cocktail Innovations
The COVID-19 pandemic has shut down bars and nightclubs nationwide, leaving Americans without their...
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CoronavirusAnd The Beat Goes On: Music’s New Playbook For Summer...
The summer season is usually the time of year for the young and the...
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RetailSummer 2020’s New Winning Accessory
The history of American fashion trends is bedecked with some strange entries. The summer...
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CoronavirusWhy ‘Dining Out’ Is About To Become A Much More...
Memorial Day weekend is upon us – which means here in the United States,...
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RetailPool Noodles, Mannequins And The Wilder Side Of Social Distancing...
If we’re being truly honest with ourselves, the new rules that will surround restaurants’...
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Travel PaymentsThe Resurgence Of The Great American Road Trip
Before 1980, the typical American vacation, no matter its destination, always began with a...
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CoronavirusMeet 2020’s Newest Influencers
Influencers have had a rough couple of weeks, as consumers’ tastes have rapidly drifted...
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Artificial Intelligence‘Paging Dr. Spot’ – How Robots Are Helping Doctors Make...
Robotics adoption has had something of a rocky road in the U.S. market in...
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CoronavirusLove In The Time Of COVID-19
In a normal year, spring is generally known as the season for new love. There’s...
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CoronavirusThe Handshake Is Dead – Long Live The Curtsy
The handshake has a long and curious history as far as greetings go. Most...
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CoronavirusThe Mr. Rogers Remedy For Keeping Calm Through COVID-19
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news,...
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CoronavirusThe World Unfiltered: What We’ve Learned About Each Other In...
In 2004, Dove launched what it called “The Campaign for Real Beauty,” a marketing...
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RetailCoronavirus Boosts Mom, Apple Pie And A Return To ‘Leave...
If one is looking for doom, gloom, destruction or gallows humor, there is a...
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CoronavirusKombucha, Bingeing, Legos And Wine: How We’ll Keep Busy In...
In 1987, Disney launched one of the more successful ad campaigns in its history....
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RetailCould This Be The Last Time We Change The Clocks?
While most people have complained numerous times about there not being enough hours in...
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RetailThe Incredibly Unexpected World Of Leap Year Commerce
The leap year is upon us – the quadrennial event when the Gregorian calendar...
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RetailThe Supreme Oreo And Other Astonishing Food Commerce
For those seeking streetwear-themed food, there is a cornucopia of options. Ground zero seems...
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RetailIs New York Fashion Week Still In Style?
In many ways, 2020's version of New York Fashion Week was much like any...
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RetailValentine’s Day, Pizza Rings And All The Ways (To Pay)...
In less than a week, “national engagement season” will be over. And for those saying...
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RetailSuper Bowl Commerce Preview: Avocados, Spiteful Beer And A $6M...
The Super Bowl is nearly upon us – the Kansas City Chiefs are headed...
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RetailMaking Money When It Rains Iguanas
Dale Carnegie, America’s first self-help guru and author of “How To Win Friends &...
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Security & FraudThe Rise Of Organized — And Disorganized — Crime In...
They say the perfect crime is hard to commit, but last week in Spokane,...
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InternationalGiving Financial Independence The Royal Treatment
For Americans, who didn’t grow up with a constitutional monarchy in place, the various...
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RetailThe Weird Commerce Of The Dark Web
In the day-to-day life of the regular law-abiding internet user, the dark web is...
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RetailGoing Truly Over The Top For Christmas
Christmas is now in the 2019 rear-view mirror. Gifts have been unwrapped, and 10...
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NewsHow Mariah Carey’s Christmas Classic Digitally Rocketed To No. 1...
This Christmas season, what’s old is not only new again — in fact, what’s...
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RetailMay The Star Wars Merch Be With You
As you may have heard, there is a new Star Wars movie coming out...
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RetailCan The Santa Experience Save Brick-And-Mortar Retail This Holiday Season?
Some holiday traditions are easy to explain — things like wrapping presents, drinking hot chocolate...
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InnovationCan Digital Upgrades Save Monopoly (And Other Board Game Classics)?
The holiday season isn’t only about retail and payments. It’s about family and friends...
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RetailShattered Glass: The Tesla Cybertruck And Other Product Launch Stunts/#FAILS
It wasn’t supposed to happen that way. That’s the thought that came to mind...
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RetailWhy, In The eCommerce Era, Catalogs Are Cool Again
While Sears Roebuck gets all the credit for inventing the mail order catalog business...
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Payment MethodsHave Pillow, Will Trade? How Digital Is Stirring A New...
What’s old, of course, always becomes new again. That holds especially true this month...
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InnovationWhy Smart Cities Of The Future Won’t Be Built In...
While smart cities have been in the public consciousness for a long time, we’ve...
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CommerceThe Modern-Day Cost Of The Excalibur Sword — And Other...
How much would you pay for the Sword of Excalibur? That, of course, is...
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Social CommerceThe Lucrative Advertising Life Of Instafamous Kids
On June 3, 2019, a star was born. Her name is Alessi Ren Luyendyk....
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InnovationWearables That Read Your Mind
The fact that our connected devices are getting to know us pretty well is, by...
