March 15, 2023
US Pickup Economy Heats Up as Consumers Ditch At-Home Delivery
Fast, effortless, convenient shopping. The less thinking, the better. That is what our research shows U.S. shoppers really want. U.S. consumers have gotten used to being able to order anything...
March 14, 2023
Fetch Rewards Cuts Staff as Consumers Cut Back on Spending
As consumers cut back on spending due to macroeconomic challenges, Fetch Rewards, a Madison, Wisconsin-based startup that offers a centralized rewards points program for online and brick-and-mortar sellers, is making...
March 14, 2023
Grocers Fight Back as More Grocery Spend Moves Online
February Consumer Price Index numbers demonstrate that grocers and consumers can’t catch a break. While inflation overall seems to be easing, with gasoline and major appliances seeing year-over-year price decreases,...
March 13, 2023
Tea Company Parlays Century-Long History Into D2C eCommerce Following
In the competitive D2C space, Mark Wendell Tea has found history makes all the difference. In an interview with PYMNTS, Hartley E. Johnson, co-owner of the Mark T. Wendell Tea...
March 13, 2023
JPMorgan Payments Says Invisible Payments Define Instant Checkout’s Future
Instant checkout has been a long time coming. Go back a few decades, and Amazon had a patent in the 1990s on one-click checkout. The patent expired in 2017, and...
March 13, 2023
Merchants Shift Focus to ‘Good Guy’ Strategy to Fight Fraud...
The payments ecosystem spends 99% of its time and money on the 1% of the people who are out to exploit the system: the fraudsters. It’s now time to turn...
March 10, 2023
Scalapay CEO Sees Big Shift From Banks to BNPL Platforms...
The current plight of the buy now, pay later (BNPL) industry has been likened to the dotcom bubble of the 2000s — from skyrocketing demand and adoption and a proliferation...
March 09, 2023
BJ’s Taps Shelf-Scanning Robotics as Grocers Rethink Inventory
This week in grocery, BJ’s automates, Sprouts shrinks down and supermarkets add restaurant meals. Massachusetts-based membership warehouse retailer BJ’s Wholesale Club, which has more than 230 stores across 18 states,...
March 09, 2023
Grocery Customers Opt for in-Store Shopping When Seeking Deals
Consumers’ deal-seeking behaviors motivate them to shop brick-and-mortar even as grocers aim to boost eCommerce. The Context In an interview with PYMNTS, Barbara Connors, vice president of commercial insights at...
