PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Apple has updated its App Store with new "privacy labels" to show the information that iPhone apps collect on users, CNBC reported. The move reflects the scrutiny over the process of collecting data from customers in recent years, with Apple having taken measures to limit ad tracking and other features that collected data from users.

Advertising 75

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

This allows the company to eliminate concerns from critics that the site will store user data for some future purpose. The data, collected in an encrypted manner, will be protected with multiple safeguards in line with restricting its access to only those who need to see it.

Accounting 93

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

As it follows in the footsteps of other merchants, Apple is reportedly beginning to harness its collection of shops as distribution hubs for delivering merchandise, Bloomberg reported. However, products in stock can be now delivered straight to shoppers from a collection of nearly 300 shops throughout Canada and the U.S.,

Technology 88

Technology Retail 88

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Businesses that wish to start purchasing from new suppliers must first collect and verify details that will help them evaluate the prospective partners’ capabilities and confirm that they are not criminally involved. This month’s Deep Dive examines buyers’ data collection needs and how supplier onboarding portals can ease this work.

Construction 107

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

They want to use their connected devices to shop and have products delivered without setting foot in stores. A smaller but growing share prefer cross-channel commerce that allows them to shop online and pick up products in stores using services like “click and collect.”.

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E78 Partners

MAY 8, 2024

ITSM is short for Information Technology Service Management, and in ServiceNow, it means a collection of practices, processes, and tools that are used to create, provide, manage, and enhance IT services that meet the requirements of an organization and its customers. What is ITSM within ServiceNow?

Leverage 52

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As criticism of the app stores run by Apple and Google heats up in the U.S., India is now reportedly planning to launch its own app store as an alternative. 24) with a goal of pushing for legal and regulatory changes regarding Big Tech’s app stores, in particular. In the U.S., The Times newspaper launched ET Now in 2009.

Nonprofit 90

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

If department stores survive this pandemic, July 1, 2020 will almost certainly mark the point where the format reached one of its darkest days. s biggest department store, was laying off corporate and store personnel and would soon start closing stores. According to data collected by the U.K.’s percent over 2019.

eCommerce 98

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In merchant innovation, an increasing share of consumers are tapping into mobile devices and laptops to do their shopping or make their journeys to physical retail stores more efficient. Data: $600B : Collective amount U.S. 67% : Share of Australian consumers who prefer to shop in-store rather than online.

Retail 74

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

NexaCollect , which helps businesses locate collection agencies, has rolled out a mobile app for Android that is available on the Google Play store, according to an announcement. It noted that credit unions and banks that mostly have consumer loans will have to find collection agencies to handle commercial invoices that are not paid.

Invoicing 63

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

Just in time for the resolution season, decluttering maven Marie Kondo has officially joined forces with The Container Store to help consumers clean up their acts. The rollout includes sustainably-made organizational boxes, shelves, hampers and more, all for sale at The Container Store. “We

Sales 67

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

retail chain New Look made headlines this week for striking a deal to effectively receive a three-year rent holiday on 68 of its stores and massive rent reductions on more than 400 others. Commercial landlords finally got some good news in July as rent collections for retail properties increased by double digits compared to May and June.

Retail 81

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

With one of the country’s largest real estate firms reporting 65 percent collections it’s clear that the retail reset is having a ripple effect. A letter from President of Stores Jamie Nordstrom to landlords on Friday showed that the company would use same-store comparisons as the basis for its decision to make its lease payments.

Retail 60

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Non-essential stores were forced to close in March, and canceled orders from fashion retailers totaled 730 million pounds (about $984 million), according to the report. Many of the retailers had just then taken their spring and summer collection deliveries. That number came from 1,931 global fashion brands nixing their orders.

B2C 108

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Cube Software

MAY 11, 2023

The ratio is simple to work out: Accounts receivable to sales ratio = (accounts receivable / sales) x 100 Let’s see it in action with a local electronics store that offers credit sales for its customers. Get the figures together Time for the electronic store’s owner to sit down with a cup of coffee and look at the relevant sales data.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In addition, users can create “collections,” where they can store favorite products in either private or public boards. Users will also now have profiles, where others can see their content, followers, and their collection boards. “We

eCommerce 91

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

The department store retailer also recognized an $80 million long-lived asset impairment charge, according to a first-quarter financial results announcement. Almost all of its stores have opened again, including locations in significant metropolitan areas. Macy’s Inc. recognized a $3.1 billion credit facility.

Forecasting 93

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Instacart Business Model The Instacart business model extends online shopping, already common in other areas of retailing, into the grocery store space. For grocery stores, Instacart is a mixed blessing. I will approach the analysis of the Instacart model's capacity for growth and value creation in four steps.

Profit and Loss 102

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

As it follows in the footsteps of other merchants, Apple is reportedly beginning to harness its collection of shops as distribution hubs for delivering merchandise, Bloomberg reported. However, products in stock can be now delivered straight to shoppers from a collection of nearly 300 shops throughout Canada and the U.S.,

Technology 64

Technology Retail 64

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

1), the founders of dozens of tech firms housed in India held a Zoom call aimed at setting the wheels in motion to form what’s being billed as a “startup collective” to battle Big Tech – Google and Facebook, among others – across a number of fronts. Names being considered for the collective include the India Internet Foundation, among others.

Startups 56

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CFO Thought Leader

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Less than an hour’s drive north of El Paso, Texas, Las Cruces is home not only to the main campus of New Mexico State University but also to a full schedule of holiday festivals and a varied collection of retailers—including motorcycle shops such as the one that Boor first visited in the mid-1970s. Or would it? “I

CFO 52

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

. “We’re working with our merchant and our marketing teams on options within the marketing calendar to reduce pressure points on big volume days, and we’re learning a lot from the reopening of our stores. Most of our stores will not have any issues. The news comes as Macy’s recognized a $3.1 billion credit facility.

Forecasting 84

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2020

Raz Golan , CEO of Israeli-based mobile checkout company Shopic , says his company started out with the mission of shortening lines in grocery stores — a crowded space in and of itself these days. The company currently markets four solutions, all aimed at grocery stores. But with a recent $7.6

Retail 85

Retail Technology eCommerce Sales 85

PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

Commercial landlords were greeted with some good news in July as rent collections for retail properties increased by double digits compared to May and June, GlobeSt.com reported. A survey by Datex Property Solutions, the California-based real estate portfolio management company, revealed that retail rent collections were 68.8

Retail 78

Retail Securities 78

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Clients will be able to get an “always-on” collection of quality vendor information via Tealbook, according to the announcement, which notes that they will also benefit from Tealbook’s approach to collecting and confirming data from more than 400 million websites and 600 information sources.

Compliance 83

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

With digital innovation in delivery and click-and-collect in its quick-service restaurants (QSRs), Yum! continues to partner with Grubhub to add locations for delivery as well as click and collect. “We KFC delivered fourth-quarter system sales growth of 8 percent and 3 percent same-store sales growth with 7 percent net new unit growth.

Sales 57

Sales Currencies Technology Marketing 57

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Users of Apple Music, TV+ streaming service and the App Store experienced problems accessing the services Tuesday (Sept. consumers and found while 81 percent of adult Americans owned smartphones, just 6 percent used Apple Pay at a physical store five years after the service debuted in 2014. 22), Reuters reported.

Sales 86

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 22, 2024

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

When it comes to requesting consent from users, Modo Chief Product Officer Ryan Lee notes that companies — as technologists — use many tools, which collect personal information. FinTechs like Modo, however, disclose what technology they use to collect data around product usage (and what telemetry they take in.)

Compliance 80

Compliance Securities Technology eCommerce 80

PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

Retailers made all sorts of quick pivots to their eCommerce sites as the pandemic unfolded, but in-store legacy technology proved to be an obstacle for many of them. The company said that while retailers often come up with innovations , “bringing these ideas to in-store trials, iterating them quickly and rolling them out at scale takes years.

Retail 75

Retail eCommerce Technology Sales 75

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

On the table is a proposal to turn some of the department stores at Simon’s mall properties into Amazon distribution centers or fulfillment hubs. Despite lower occupancy rates and rent collections at its shopping centers, Simon’s third quarter net income of $145.9 Rent collections were 85 percent.

Retail 84

Retail eCommerce Investments 84

PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2020

Parsing that language: Non-store retailers may omit a significant number of companies that are logging a significant number of electronic transactions, across a variety of payment methods. And as for in-store transactions, contactless payments, including QR codes and digital wallets, have been on the rise.

eCommerce 115

eCommerce Sales Retail Numbers 115

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The retailer is also offering a promotion that includes 20 percent off purchases on curbside pickup or buy online, pickup in-store (BOPIS) orders from Dec. We will have orders ready to collect in-store in a couple of hours, or straight to your doorstep on the same day, giving our customers more time to enjoy the present this year.".

Leverage 75

Leverage Retail 75

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Spotify said it is calling on antitrust authorities "to act urgently to restrict Apple’s anti-competitive behavior, which if left unchecked, will cause irreparable harm to the developer community and threaten our collective freedoms to listen, learn, create and connect," according to Reuters.

Accounting 72

Accounting 72

PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

And [regulators] will have to allow us to report, consolidate and collect this information — and be able to report it to the authorities and regulatory bodies that need it.”. If you go back maybe 10, 20 years, you have companies like Home Depot and other big brick-and-mortar stores,” he told PYMNTS.

Currencies 102

Currencies Healthcare Numbers Retail 102

PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

Merchants that had focused on getting customers to increase time in stores switched to efforts to decrease time in stores, with digital payments playing a key role. Progressive retailers have paved the way for this with email collection at registers, enabling them to connect their customers’ behavior in-store with them online.

Retail 84

Retail eCommerce Economics Marketing 84

PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2020

stores shuttered. The Wall Street Journal reported that retailers are not waiting seven months to off-load the spring and summer collections. Stores like Macy’s usually sell their unsold collections to off-price stores, such T.J. Black Friday isn’t until Nov. Maxx, which is owned by Framingham-based TJX Cos.

Retail 57

Retail Sales 57