July 12, 2024
Walmart Taps Automation in Bid to Broaden Grocery Lead Over...
As Walmart looks to hold its own against Amazon’s growing lead in retail, the company is leaning into its food and beverage stronghold, leveraging automation to scale its omnichannel grocery...
July 11, 2024
Flipkart Adds New Bill Pay, Recharge Options to eCommerce Platform
Walmart-owned Indian eCommerce marketplace Flipkart added new ways for customers to pay bills and recharge payments while shopping on the platform. The company has added FASTag, direct-to-home recharges, landline, broadband...
July 11, 2024
Shoppers Subscribe to Retailers’ Membership Programs for Beauty Deals
As retailers look to win subscribers over to their paid membership programs to bring in revenue and drive loyalty, PYMNTS Intelligence indicates that, if Walmart+ Week was any indication, beauty...
July 11, 2024
Amazon’s Wondery Adds ‘Armchair Expert’ Podcast in $80 Million Deal
Amazon entered into an $80 million deal that will bring comedian Dax Shepard’s podcast “Armchair Expert” to the Wondery platform. Wondery will exclusively distribute and sell ads for the podcast,...
July 11, 2024
Mastercard and Nuvei Team to Provide Digital Asset Offramp
Mastercard and Canadian FinTech Nuvei have teamed to help consumers turn digital assets into fiat currency. The collaboration, announced Thursday (July 11), is open to consumers in Europe, and lets...
July 11, 2024
Grocers Integrate AI Into Digital Platforms to Boost Omnichannel Engagement
In an effort to stay ahead in a competitive market, grocers are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance their consumer-facing digital platforms, making the experience more engaging and frictionless. Technology...
July 11, 2024
Embedded Finance, Online Platforms Shape This Week’s B2B Innovations
There are many truisms about the B2B landscape, and they mostly center around better payments. After all, the ongoing digital transformation reshaping the B2B marketplace is increasingly defined by businesses...
July 11, 2024
UK Grocery Regulator Threatens Amazon with Investigation Over Supplier Treatment
In a stern warning to Amazon, Britain’s grocery regulator has announced the possibility of a formal investigation if the eCommerce giant does not improve its compliance with an industry code...
July 11, 2024
Inflation Cools Overall, but Food Is More Expensive
The Consumer Price Index released Thursday (July 11) showed that, at least overall, the pace of inflation cooled in June. But the category-by-category data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
The U.S., U.K. and Europe are intensifying their efforts to develop and deploy the policies and infrastructure necessary to advance the use cases and real time payments volume of their domestic networks. This month’s “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, explores the progress and future developments of real-time payments across these regions.
Nearly half of consumers in Mexico shop in-store without using digital shopping features — but merchants hear their customers’ cries for a better experience and are planning to add many. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest 33-page report, the “2024 Global Digital Shopping Index: Mexico Edition,” commissioned by Visa Acceptance Solutions, features eight charts that provide a blueprint for merchants in Mexico to increase customer satisfaction and drive revenue.