Karen Webster

Retail 2022: Digital Taps Pent-Up Consumer Demand
Retail 2022: Digital Taps Pent-Up Consumer Demand
November 09, 2020  |  Payments Innovation

It’s one year from today: Nov. 9, 2021. It’s been 18 months since the coronavirus swept the world and changed everything about it. But finally, the...

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Walmart+ And Amazon Prime Face Off As Consumers Decide Who Gets Their Business
Walmart+ And Amazon Prime Face Off As Consumers Decide Who Gets Their Business
November 02, 2020  |  Subscriptions

“Membership has its privileges” was the nine-year ad campaign launched by American Express in 1987 to persuade consumers that it was worth it to pay...

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How Customers Fall Through The Cracks Of Digital Platforms
How Customers Fall Through The Cracks Of Digital Platforms
October 26, 2020  |  eCommerce

“Whose customer am I? And who’s going to take care me?” Those are the questions I asked myself last week when trying to resolve an...

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Saving Main Street From Its Downward Pandemic Spiral
Saving Main Street From Its Downward Pandemic Spiral
October 19, 2020  |  Retail

Consumers crave certainty, and they work pretty hard to minimize the risk of making a bad choice. That’s why once consumers find something that works,...

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What The Great Time Revolution Means For Consumers
What The Great Time Revolution Means For Consumers
October 12, 2020  |  Innovation

The “Mighty Thor” was a household game-changer in 1908. Invented by Alva John Fisher, Thor was the first electric washing machine to be mass-produced and...

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How Consumers Forced Big Merchants To Up Their Digital-First Game
How Consumers Forced Big Merchants To Up Their Digital-First Game
October 05, 2020  |  Payments Innovation

Human beings are creatures of habit. Take popcorn and going to the movies. Americans consume roughly 13 billion quarts of popcorn every year, roughly 30...

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What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix
What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix
September 14, 2020  |  Payments Innovation

Netflix Co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings has written a new book about building the video-streaming powerhouse that now has nearly 200 million subscribers globally, as...

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The Rise Of The Auto-Refill Economy
The Rise Of The Auto-Refill Economy
August 17, 2020  |  Subscription Commerce

The Commerce Department released July’s retail sales last week, showing an increase in seasonally adjusted retail spending – up 1.2 percent overall last month, but...

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What Overcoming Inertia Tells Us About The Future of Physical Retail
What Overcoming Inertia Tells Us About The Future of Physical Retail
August 10, 2020  |  Payments Innovation

By now, you’ve no doubt heard the story about how Isaac Newton turned quarantining during London’s outbreak of the Bubonic Plague between 1665 and 1667...

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