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More Consumers Shopped With Apps Than at Malls on Black Friday
More Consumers Shopped With Apps Than at Malls on Black Friday
November 28, 2022  |  Shopping

Inflation cast a long shadow over Black Friday 2022. Consumer prices rose 7.7% year over year in October, leaving millions of consumers wary as they...

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Health and Wellness Options Increase as Brits Gift Subscriptions This Holiday Season
Health and Wellness Options Increase as Brits Gift Subscriptions This Holiday Season
November 27, 2022  |  Subscription Commerce

As noted in the November edition of the PYMNTS Subscription Commerce Tracker, nearly two-thirds of U.K. consumers plan to reevaluate their subscriptions in the next...

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Retailers’ Success Could Come Down to the ABCs This Year
Retailers’ Success Could Come Down to the ABCs This Year
November 26, 2022  |  News

With all due respect to Alec Baldwin’s legendary “Always Be Closing” monologue from the film Glengarry Glen Ross, the ABCs of holiday shopping have gotten...

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A Month of Black Friday Sales Has Crushed the Urgency to Buy
A Month of Black Friday Sales Has Crushed the Urgency to Buy
November 25, 2022  |  Retail

Six weeks after Amazon’s Early Access Sale and three weeks into Walmart’s month of Deals for Days events, and Black Friday — the mother of all...

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Livestreamed Commerce Hits the Streets With Debut of Digital Window Shopping
Livestreamed Commerce Hits the Streets With Debut of Digital Window Shopping
November 23, 2022  |  Retail

Shoppers in New York City accustomed to browsing the decorated storefronts of Manhattan’s busy shopping district are about to get a glimpse of the future...

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Grocery Stores Will Be the Big Winners This Holiday Season
Grocery Stores Will Be the Big Winners This Holiday Season
November 21, 2022  |  Retail

Special foods and overeating may be synonymous with the holidays, but this year, PYMNTS research shows, the additional cost of groceries alongside an increase in...

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40% of Paycheck-to-Paycheck Consumers Will Use Financing to Make Holiday Happen
40% of Paycheck-to-Paycheck Consumers Will Use Financing to Make Holiday Happen
November 17, 2022  |  Consumer Finance

With 15 million consumers — close to 6% of the United States population — sitting out holiday gift buying this year, roughly 40% will use...

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NY Fed: Household Debt Climbs to $16.5T
NY Fed: Household Debt Climbs to $16.5T
November 16, 2022  |  Debt

New data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows American household debt continuing to climb, with credit card balances jumping at their largest...

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Half of Financially Distressed Consumers Plan to Finance Holiday Purchases
Half of Financially Distressed Consumers Plan to Finance Holiday Purchases
November 16, 2022  |  Consumer Finance

With the shock waves of inflation continuing to weaken spending power, most United States consumers are toning down their expectations for the 2022 holiday shopping...

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