One in four. That is how many of the small and mid-sized businesses on Main Street U.S.A. say their local communities are back to where they were before March 2020. The rest say they are still far from normal, whether it is their communities or...
The number of businesses in the U.K. that closed in Q2 was the highest since 2017 as the number hit 105,455, according to a report from the Office of National Statistics. In 2017, by contrast, the number had reached 98,880 in Q2, which was higher...
There’s a buoyant feeling on Main Street USA again — whether it’s in small towns or big cities — and optimism is an ideal counter to the doldrums small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have endured over the past year and a half. In the May edition of...
Small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) on Main Street in the United States have had a challenging year, with the pandemic forcing them to dramatically shift how they provide services and sell products. As vaccines have rolled out and 40 percent of the U.S. population is...
Consumer safety concerns have been reduced due to the availability of vaccines, yet the trend of consumers doing more online and less in-store is here to stay. In the Consumers And The New Retail Landscape, PYMNTS surveyed 2,225 U.S. consumers to examine the rise of a retail landscape based on...
U.K. stores saw another uptick in the number of shoppers venturing out as restrictions started lifting following the region’s third COVID-19 lockdown, Reuters reported on Monday (March 22). The number of people heading out to shops across Britain rose by 0.5 percent in the week...
It all started a year ago. Remember? There came a scary event that’s changed nearly everything about how we live, work, play — and pay for the pleasure. PYMNTS has tracked the destructive path of COVID through the business world in our Pandenomics report series, surveying...
The first statewide stay-at-home measures were implemented in California one year ago today, on March 19, 2020. Other states followed, with many — including Ohio and Minnesota, among others — planning to go back to business as usual after two weeks. Consumers’ everyday lives have...
The anniversary of the United States’ first pandemic-related lockdown measures is fast approaching. March 19 will mark 365 days since California became the first — though certainly not the last — U.S. state to implement a stay-at-home or shelter-in-place order, closing all nonessential businesses in...
