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Retailers Embrace ‘Dadcore’ Stereotypes to Combat Father’s Day Spending Pullback

June 15, 2024
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Gen Z and Millennial Sock Shoppers Go Toe to Toe
Retail // June 08, 2024

It looks like there’s a generational paradigm shift in a key hosiery category — on platforms such as TikTok, viral videos depict a lighthearted sock war between millennials and Generation Z. In an interview with PYMNTS, Mona Goshin, senior vice president of merchandising and product...

From Space Oreos to Garfield La-Z-Boys, Retail Brands Go to Hollywood
Retail // June 01, 2024

Retail brands are looking to the silver screen to get shoppers excited, so roll out the red carpet for PYMNTS weekender’s roundup of the quirkiest tie-ins of the month. Oreo, for instance, is taking it out of this world with a Lucasfilm partnership, releasing Star...

Retailers Heat Up Memorial Day With Holiday Deals and Pop-Ups
Retail // May 25, 2024

This Memorial Day, in addition to the usual round of holiday weekend sales, many retailers are getting more targeted about how they can insert their products into shoppers’ summer celebrations. Walmart, for instance, as part of its push to lower prices in competitive categories, is...

AI Takes Turn as Archaeology Assistant to Uncover Ancient Commerce, Trade Routes
Artificial Intelligence // May 18, 2024

What if Indiana Jones had been able to use artificial intelligence? With AI, Indy could have quickly analyzed ancient texts, deciphered hieroglyphics and cross-referenced historical data, speeding up his research and reducing the time spent in dusty libraries. He could have been much more efficient in his...

Interviews & Exclusives
3 Strikes and Cashiers Are Out at the New Ball Game

March 30, 2024
Baseball is back, and this year, more stadiums are tapping frictionless checkout to cut labor costs while meeting fans’ demand to spend as little time out of their seats as possible. Colorado Rockies’ Coors Field is expanding its use of Amazon’s Just Walk Out frictionless checkout technology, according to a March 21 news release. It’s also adding self-checkout kiosks from solution provider Tapin2. […]

Can Selfridges’ Play on Nostalgia Revive the Yellow Pages?

September 09, 2023
When was the last time you saw the Yellow Pages? Probably in 2019, since that was the last time it was published. Well, that thick, yellow book, which was created...

What the Future of Money Looks Like on Washington’s Birthday

February 18, 2023
Money is evolving beyond Jeffersons, Jacksons and Benjamins, as digital solutions transform the landscape. This, as more than 4 in 10 Americans (41%) say they don’t use cash to pay...

The Big Bucks Behind Sleep (Or Lack Thereof)

September 28, 2019
The benefits of a good night’s sleep can’t be overstated – nor the negative consequences of not getting one. The average human being needs seven to nine hours per night...