Karen Webster

Walmart’s Bid To Go From Supercenter To Super App
Walmart’s Bid To Go From Supercenter To Super App
February 23, 2021  |  Retail

Thirty-three years ago, in 1988, in Washington, Missouri, the first Walmart Supercenter opened its doors. The store concept itself took a page from the European...

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Face-To-Face V.2021: What Zoom Teaches Us About The Connected Economy
Face-To-Face V.2021: What Zoom Teaches Us About The Connected Economy
February 01, 2021  |  Commerce Connected

An article published in the Harvard Business Review in August of 2009 posed a question that many airline and travel industry CEOs are pondering 11...

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Retail 2021: The Five Things Retailers Should Be Talking About At NRF This Week
Retail 2021: The Five Things Retailers Should Be Talking About At NRF This Week
January 18, 2021  |  Retail

Every year for the last 110 years, members of the retail trade group, known as the National Retail Federation (NRF), have assembled to discuss the...

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Framing 2021: Six Trendlines That Will Define Payments And The Connected Economy
Framing 2021: Six Trendlines That Will Define Payments And The Connected Economy
January 04, 2021  |  Payments Innovation

Let’s start 2021 being provocative instead of safe with wishy-washy predictions. Karen Webster says let’s drop the prefixes from commerce. Then get our heads wrapped...

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Today In Payments: Trump Signs Stimulus Bill; Square Said To Mull Buy of Jay-Z’s TIDAL Music-Streaming Service
Today In Payments: Trump Signs Stimulus Bill; Square Said To Mull Buy of Jay-Z’s TIDAL...
December 28, 2020  |  News

In today’s top news, President Trump signed the pandemic relief bill Congress passed last week, and Square CEO Jack Dorsey is reportedly interested in buying...

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52 Mondays 2020: The Year Of Speed, Scale And Seismic Shifts in Payments
52 Mondays 2020: The Year Of Speed, Scale And Seismic Shifts in Payments
December 28, 2020  |  Karen Webster

Looking back, when we take stock of what happened and sift through the chaos and heartbreak of the year that was, we’ll see the seismic...

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Is It Time For Apple To Allow Others Access To The iPhone NFC Chip?
Is It Time For Apple To Allow Others Access To The iPhone NFC Chip?
December 21, 2020  |  Payments Innovation

You can see it in the quarterly earnings reports this year of just about every publicly traded company and among the list of companies that...

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Google’s Super App Wakeup Call
Google’s Super App Wakeup Call
November 23, 2020  |  Payments Innovation

In June of 2019, PYMNTS asked a national sample of 1,037 smartphone users about their interest in having a single app that would make their...

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COVID Crisis: What Happens If Most People Don’t Get The Vaccine?
COVID Crisis: What Happens If Most People Don’t Get The Vaccine?
November 16, 2020  |  Coronavirus

On the same day that COVID-19 cases in the U.S. topped 10 million and hit 50.5 million globally, the world got news that Pfizer and...

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