Saturday Feature news and trends

A Winning Look: Luxury Designers Go for Gold During the Olympics
Retail // June 22, 2024

With eyes around the world glued to the Olympics, luxury fashion designers have a long history of taking advantage of the opportunity to cement their place as definitive voices in culture. On Tuesday (June 18), Ralph Lauren debuted the uniforms it has designed for the...

Retailers Embrace ‘Dadcore’ Stereotypes to Combat Father’s Day Spending Pullback
Retail // June 15, 2024

As Father’s Day approaches, retailers are seizing on different paternal stereotypes to drive engagement and sales, from dad jokes to “dadcore” style to that tangle of unidentified, no-longer useful cables that so many dads seem to be unwilling to part with. Panera, for its part,...

Gen Z and Millennial Sock Shoppers Go Toe to Toe
Retail // June 08, 2024

It looks like there’s a generational paradigm shift in a key hosiery category — on platforms such as TikTok, viral videos depict a lighthearted sock war between millennials and Generation Z. In an interview with PYMNTS, Mona Goshin, senior vice president of merchandising and product...

From Space Oreos to Garfield La-Z-Boys, Retail Brands Go to Hollywood
Retail // June 01, 2024

Retail brands are looking to the silver screen to get shoppers excited, so roll out the red carpet for PYMNTS weekender’s roundup of the quirkiest tie-ins of the month. Oreo, for instance, is taking it out of this world with a Lucasfilm partnership, releasing Star...

Interviews & Exclusives
3 Strikes and Cashiers Are Out at the New Ball Game

March 30, 2024
Baseball is back, and this year, more stadiums are tapping frictionless checkout to cut labor costs while meeting fans’ demand to spend as little time out of their seats as possible. Colorado Rockies’ Coors Field is expanding its use of Amazon’s Just Walk Out frictionless checkout technology, according to a March 21 news release. It’s also adding self-checkout kiosks from solution provider Tapin2. […]

Can Selfridges’ Play on Nostalgia Revive the Yellow Pages?

September 09, 2023
When was the last time you saw the Yellow Pages? Probably in 2019, since that was the last time it was published. Well, that thick, yellow book, which was created...

What the Future of Money Looks Like on Washington’s Birthday

February 18, 2023
Money is evolving beyond Jeffersons, Jacksons and Benjamins, as digital solutions transform the landscape. This, as more than 4 in 10 Americans (41%) say they don’t use cash to pay...

The Big Bucks Behind Sleep (Or Lack Thereof)

September 28, 2019
The benefits of a good night’s sleep can’t be overstated – nor the negative consequences of not getting one. The average human being needs seven to nine hours per night...