Search results for "brick and mortar"

May 13, 2012
Perk Street CEO: Banks In Customer Acquisition “Knife Fight”

Banks are exerting maximum effort to acquire new customers, eliciting a visceral assessment from the leader at one of the space’s more innovative companies. “It’s such a knife fight to...

May 09, 2012
Facebook’s Offers Test Works With eCommerce Sites, Too

Facebook Offers, the social network’s pilot test that lets small businesses distribute coupons online, works with online retailers as well as brick-and-mortar merchants, TechCrunch says. The difference is that while...

May 08, 2012
Shopkick Explains How Connectivity Issues Affect Loyalty

The frequency with which consumers lose their internet and data connections upon entering brick-and-mortar retail locations poses a problem to loyalty innovators hoping to take advantage of mobile connectivity, says...

May 07, 2012
No More Paper, No More Trackless Deals: Connecting Offline and...

Although couponing has gained mainstream acceptance, those pesky pieces of paper have proven an inefficient way to redeem the offer. They get lost or expire, or slow checkout lines to...

April 23, 2012
Startup Roundup: Who’s Getting Funded?

Here’s our Startup Roundup: a (close-to-) comprehensive list of each of the startup companies in payments and/or e-commerce to receive at least $1 million in funding from equity investors in...

April 16, 2012
Macy’s CEO’s Vision for Retail Location 2.0

Terry Lundgren, CEO at Macy’s, says he wants to incorporate some of the features that are driving the retailer’s online sales into brick-and-mortar stores. In-store, web-connected kiosks that pull up...

April 12, 2012
Whatever Happened to…ShopSavvy?

Who is this we’re talking about? ShopSavvy is a barcode scanner for your smartphone. Available on Android, Blackberry, and iOS devices, ShopSavvy uses the information conveyed through the barcode to...

April 10, 2012
Intuit Buys AisleBuyer, Self-Checkout App, for Reported $100M

Intuit has acquired AisleBuyer, the Boston-based software company behind a leading self-checkout app for smartphones. On late Tuesday, the Boston Herald reported that the deal could be worth as much...

April 05, 2012
Merchant Report: Apparel Retailer Express Launches NEXT

A new loyalty program launched by Express attempts to reward consumers for their activity online, be it purchases through the store’s website or product mentions via social media. An Ohio-based...

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Walmart Vs.Amazon Whole Paycheck: Battle For The Digital-First Consumer
Amazon And Walmart’s Battle For Consumer Retail Spend Download the latest quarterly analysis of how the pandemic affected the world’s two most powerful retailers as they battled for digital and offline consumer spend and positioned themselves for the fourth quarter push.
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How We Shop
5,000 ‘Need It Now’ Consumers Tell PYMNTS What They Expect, Value Most From Retailers Online purchases and deliveries have soared during the pandemic, but consumers still head to stores for their “need it now” purchases. In How We Shop: Brick-And-Mortar’s Role In The Bring-It-To-Me Economy, a PYMNTS and Carat from Fiserv collaboration, we surveyed 5,266 consumers to learn about the digital features that can give in-store merchants an edge when consumers “need it now.”