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Instacart: Grocery Shoppers Ditch Merchants That Don’t Offer Smart Carts
May 08, 2024

Instacart is seeing in-store technologies impact grocery shoppers’ spending and loyalty. The aggregator’s CEO, Fidji Simo, noted in a letter shared with investors Wednesday (May 8) discussing its first-quarter 2024 earnings results that, according to merchants who have deployed the company’s Caper Cart smart self-checkout shopping carts, “people are seeking out stores” that...

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Auto1 Ups Its AI Focus as Car-Sale Profits Jump 23%
May 08, 2024

European used car platform Auto1 is deepening its artificial intelligence (AI) focus amid record profits. The company on Wednesday (May 8) reported quarterly earnings showing $175 million in gross profits, a 23% increase year over year. While discussing this milestone on the company’s earnings call,...

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QVC Owner Courts 50+ Women as Revenues Slip
May 08, 2024

With revenues sliding, Qurate Retail is focused on women over 50 and their discretionary income. The parent company of QVC and HSN on Wednesday (May 8) released quarterly earnings showing its revenues declining 4% year over year, contributing to an overall drop of 11%. Those figures mirrored the company’s quarterly report from...

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Consumers’ Click-and-Mortar™ Expectations Shape Shopify’s Future
May 08, 2024

Digital may have changed the face of retail, but consumers continue to want to shop in stores, demanding that even the most eCommerce-centric companies such as Shopify adapt. The commerce platform shared Wednesday (May 8) in an investor presentation accompanying its first-quarter 2024 financial results...

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Affirm Credits Mid-Market With Q3 ’24 Earnings Gains
May 08, 2024

Although it didn’t address two big elephants in the room, buy now, pay later company Affirm rode solid advancements in its debit card and gross merchandise volume metrics to better-than-expected Q3 earnings results.  In what is a continuing referendum on consumer spend this earnings season,...

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Earnings Point to Different Routes for Lyft and Uber
May 08, 2024

Uber and Lyft bring to mind the oft-quoted Robert Frost poem. You know the one — about two roads that diverged. The rest of the poem is about the woods, the path not taken … but more than a century after its publication, it proves...

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Coupang: Fulfillment Service Helps Merchants Double Sales in 90 Days
May 07, 2024

South Korean eCommerce giant Coupang is seeing growing adoption of its latest products and services. Its fulfillment and logistics, grocery delivery and meal delivery offerings made gains during the first quarter, Bom Kim, founder and CEO of Coupang, said Tuesday (May 7) during the company’s quarterly earnings call. The company’s...

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LoanDepot Says ‘Higher for Longer’ Interest Will Keep Challenging Mortgage Industry
May 07, 2024

LoanDepot expects the mortgage industry to continue facing a challenging environment. Recent interest rate increases have reduced industry forecasts for market volumes for the year, the company said in a Tuesday (May 7) earnings release. “Since our last call, the expectations for lower interest rates have been...

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Marqeta Processing Volumes Surge 33%; Earned Wage Access Beckons
May 07, 2024

Marqeta’s latest results and commentary showed momentum in the company’s transaction processing operations — and opportunity in nascent markets such as earned wage access.  CEO Simon Khalaf said the company’s efforts and value for its corporate clients span the “spectrum of integrated payment options” across...