PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2019

One benchmark of retail trading, the S&P 500 Retailing index, was off by 3 percent. At least some analysts on the Street see some even rockier performance as many retailers are on tap to deliver earnings results. The ways to grapple with the tariffs are somewhat limited in number and in scope.

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CFO Share

MARCH 28, 2024

They are: Relevant Timely Measurable Clear Actionable The Dangers of KPIs The strength and weakness of KPIs is their simplicity: as a one-dimensional number, they provide no depth or details. Those who fail to appreciate the nuance of KPIs come off as cold, short-sighted managers who focus more on numbers than results.

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JUNE 7, 2019

Single consumers are a force of nature as well when it comes to retail. Single people, often neglected by many retailers – at least based on complaints and stereotypes found online – seem to be getting fresh attention in this era of online and mobile shopping, and shopping clubs. Take Costco, for instance. Singles’ Day.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

No longer are retailers working with marketers to figure out a way to mass market products and services. With the advent of connected devices in the palm of almost every consumer’s hand, the retail ecosystem has certainly seen a shift. Through this omnichannel experience, retailers have more ways to connect with consumers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In data that will likely surprise anyone who has avidly watched retail over the last few years, the market is trending strongly toward same-day delivery. According to the “2017 Digital Commerce Benchmark Survey,” conducted by Boston Retail Partners (BRP), some 65 percent of retailers will offer same-day delivery within the next two years.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

based retailers slipped more than had been forecast last month. percent as measured against July numbers, which represents the first actual decline in five months and comes after a revised 0.1 percent as measured against July numbers, which represents the first actual decline in five months and comes after a revised 0.1

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 17, 2023

My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • Retailers have a crime problem. It’s in the numbers : The issue is complex and often clouded by imprecise data. Retail Dive ) • Guns are seized in U.S. The numbers are soaring. Sometimes from the industry itself. schools each day.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Cash flow and liquidity problems: Are your fixed costs or interest payments creeping up, or do you have a high number or amount of customer overdue payments? Review the credit terms you extend to customers and suppliers, and benchmark your trade terms against the rest of your industry. Weakened balance sheet.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Data Point Number 1: 61 percent. This is the number of consumers, percentage-wise, who are willing to pay more for the ability to take advantage of same-day delivery/pickup. Data Point Number 2: 57 percent. That’s a feature that makes sense, said Waldman, only for bigger box retailers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

These are tough times to be tangible — as in brick-and-mortar, in retailing at least. The physical retailer is constrained by square footage, the hybrid retailer joining on an eCommerce platform less so, especially with the drop shipping. The upshot is that, through the drop-ship model, they do not need to hold more inventory.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2016

Amazon Prime might have been a good little idea, the naysayers nay-said, but once shoppers have to start shelling out higher fees for the privilege of faster shipping, those “loyal” customers would run into the waiting arms of the retailers they’d left behind. For two-year paid members?

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MAY 24, 2016

Retail earnings may have long been looked upon as a benchmark for measuring the growth of the economy but not anymore. The shift in calibration comes as signs of weakening sales in the earnings reports of numerous major retailers were counteracted by the U.S economy — retail.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Some of Japan’s other top indexes, such as the benchmark TOPIX and the Nikkei 225 , are still fighting to recover from pandemic losses. The NASDAQ-style Mothers Index has soared along with an influx of retail investors, Bloomberg said. Applications for employer identification numbers have grown to over 3.2

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AUGUST 16, 2016

The business of retail apps is booming. And 303 of the world’s top 500 retailers now have an app. The study, conducted by ARC from Applause, a research group that analyzes the apps economy, looked at 50 of those top retailers that received approximately half of their total sales through mobile apps. billion from $35.48

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2020

The largest retailer in the world has collaborated with Nextdoor, the social networking service, to launch “Neighbors Helping Neighbors,” per an announcement on Thursday (April 23). Walmart and Nextdoor have joined forces to make it easier for neighbors to help each other during the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, they had $514.4

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

The STR Report is the Smith Travel Research benchmarking tool that measures and compares data from like hotels. . He added that the numbers show there is “no material behavioral change to travel patterns. The industry’s key metrics were up the week ending Oct. Once restrictions ease, travel recovers.”. percent over 2019. percent.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

The Trackers use a number of creative methodologies and frameworks that measure and benchmark an ever-changing landscape. Buy now, pay later (BNPL) solutions hold promise in alleviating some of these issues, but many retailers are still taking hands-off approaches to dealing with pandemic-related shifts in consumers’ spending habits.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 20, 2024

For example, you can see what’s the biggest drawdown, how long did it last, how long and how often did a strategy beat its benchmark, and by what magnitude. And everyone answers for, except for the person they hire, whose answer was, what number did you have in mind? What’s two plus two.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

And several of them are affecting the retail industry. And judging from the continuing proliferation of videos on social media, the ability for retailers to enforce even the minimum safety standards of mask-wearing is risky business for employees. That line of thinking also leads to the counter-currents of retailing.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2016

How poorly these department stores are doing shows up blazingly in a new eMarketer report, “Department Stores and Digital Commerce 2016: Trends and Benchmarks.” Just last year, that number was down almost a third to $60.65 2015 and Jan. On the high end, the list ranges from Neiman Marcus at 28.1 percent to Bon-Ton at 6.9

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

Larger multibillion dollar retailers do no better at eliminating the friction associated with transacting online than their smaller million to ten million dollar merchant counterparts. Large retailers leave their customers abandoned at the virtual checkout aisle at the same rate that the smaller guys do. Size doesn’t matter.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In addition, AFS was able to consolidate its total number of routes from 17 to 13 through an organization-wide simplification of scheduling, delivery and servicing, leading to even greater savings for the company. “We

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

He has absolutely crushed his benchmark over that period. He’s crushed the Russell 2000, whatever benchmark you want to talk about. And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. The s and p 500 has underperformed his fund by 3.7%

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

Even though Tesla has only been included in the benchmark S&P 500 Index for three weeks, the company's growth prospects remain bright, analysts said, as it is building new plants to boost production to meet demand. “We EV Enthusiasm. million hybrids and close to two million electric vehicles on the road in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In terms of online shopping, Google’s data show that Black Friday had the highest number mobile shopping searches of any day during Thanksgiving week, with Thanksgiving Day coming in a close second with searches peaking at 8 p.m. Black Friday sales blew past the $3 billion benchmark for the first in history this year.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2017

Benchmarking against Amazon is going to become hard,” said Guru Hariharan, a former Amazon manager who now sells pricing software to retailers as chief executive of Mountain View, California-based Boomerang Commerce. Bots can slow down a website, a big motivator for retailers to block them.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Today, the “membership has its privileges” mantra is at the core of the latest face-off between the two retail behemoths vying for an increasing portion of consumer spend: Walmart and Amazon. Amazon Prime became the catalyst for the consumer’s shift to digital and for the decline of physical retail.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A disappointing economic report for August, weak retail sales and industrial production and slower job growth are expected to prevent the Fed from increasing interest rates at least until December. A separate report showed consumer sentiment was steady in early September, which suggests that retail sales could rebound in the coming months.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Here are the numbers: $682 billion | Amount that consumers are expected to spend on presents and other holiday preparations this holiday shopping season, with retailers going the extra mile to meet them where they are in a simpler and faster way. 165 million | Value of VC funding raised by luxury eTail brand Moda Operandi.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2017

His father basically invented the modern-day shopping mall, so it’s only fitting that Will Smith, founder of Euclid Analytics, would be revolutionizing the retail experience for the next generation. That’s the problem we’re helping retailers solve.”. million to date.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2017

And it came in the wake of a rate hike that took the benchmark interest rate to a range of one percent to 1.25 Indeed, numbers last week show that (via initial estimates) GDP growth accelerated in the second quarter to 2.6 And consumer spending has to rise if retailers and others are to survive and thrive. percent in June.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2016

With its streaming media and Web services departments, it can seem like Amazon is transitioning more and more into a retailer that focuses strictly on selling intangible goods. While that may be true, the success of Amazon Home Services proves that while products might differ, Amazon is, first and foremost, focused on selling convenience.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2017

That demand for cryptocurrency is likely driven by the fact that, in terms of bitcoin, there is still some debate as to exactly how popular the digital currency is among top retailers. While that number is tiny in world economic scale (U.S. Today, the approximate number of those with globally active cryptocurrency wallets is between 5.8

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

Before any orders are rejected, they are reviewed by human analysts to enable the maximum number of legitimate orders. Breslow said that the man-plus-machine approach helps retailers reject fewer orders while still catching the majority of fraud before it happens. If Amazon is the benchmark, that’s going to be a long tug of war.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. They create the benchmark. I think you will also.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

The fast casual segment of the restaurant industry is having a tough year so far with the latest edition of the BDO restaurant industry benchmarking update showing that sales through the first quarter of this year declined 2 percent in that category. percent in the first quarter, a number for which the brand blamed unfavorable weather.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

And when they think about test results , it’s more likely to involve a positive or negative than a number. But as we only started selling online a few months prior to the pandemic (we were out of stock prior), it is harder to benchmark what it would be like without the situation.

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