Search results for "brick and mortar"

April 11, 2023
Toshiba Taps BlueStar to Expand POS Network

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions says it’s extending the reach of its point-of-sale (POS) network. The company on Tuesday (April 11) announced it is teaming with POS firm BlueStar to help...

April 11, 2023
Merchants Target Products, Not People, With in-Store Security Measures

Tracking items instead of people is gaining steam with some retailers, but the strategy may not work for most products. As reported by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) March 28,...

April 10, 2023
Amazon Ups Its Share of Health and Personal Care Spend...

Amazon is closing in on one of Walmart’s traditional areas of dominance — consumer spending on personal health items — as the two titans continue their contentious dance. As is seen...

April 10, 2023
TikTok Ban Threat Scares Off US Merchants

TikTok is reportedly having trouble attracting American merchants to its online shopping service. A report Monday by The Information says U.S. merchants are both more interested in expanding their brick-and-mortar operations and concerned...

April 07, 2023
Wage Growth Signals Pain Ahead for Main Street’s Small Businesses

For Main Street small businesses, the margin pressure will continue. Government data on the labor market released Friday (April 7) show that U.S. hiring backed off from a formerly relentless...

April 07, 2023
Only 26% of Main Street Businesses Have Access to 60...

  Main Street USA is operating on the edge, and most are concerned about the impacts of inflation and the uncertain economic forecast. Most small to midsized businesses (SMBs) that...

April 06, 2023
Grocers Without Strong Online Presence Risk Losing Millennial Shoppers

While 2023 might be the “year of groceries” compared to consumers’ general pullback in eating out, that doesn’t mean the sector has had it easy. Manufacturer price hikes have put small and independent...

April 05, 2023
Barnes & Noble CEO: Store Expansion and Revamped Loyalty See...

Bookstores — remember those? — have staged something of a comeback during the pandemic years, and the question now is can that really be sustained? Driven by factors from streaming...

April 04, 2023
eGrocery Falls Flat When Startups Try to Reinvent the Wheel

From Instacart’s increased valuation to Boxed’s bankruptcy filing, online grocery is seeing major changes. While players that attempt to drive adoption of their own digital grocery stores are struggling to...

...
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.
...
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.”