Merchant Innovation

US eCommerce On A Tear In Q3
US eCommerce On A Tear In Q3
September 16, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

Data released from the U.S. Department of Commerce on Thursday (Sept. 15) revealed that the eCommerce market took a small dip in sales during the...

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Merchants Gear Up To Take On Fall
Merchants Gear Up To Take On Fall
September 05, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

It’s that time of year again — kids are heading back to school, the nights are getting cooler and there’s pumpkin spice everything, everywhere. It’s...

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YouTube To Open Physical Store In London
YouTube To Open Physical Store In London
August 22, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

Google is slated to open a physical YouTube store, dubbed the Creator Store, attached to its 11-story King’s Cross headquarters in London later this year,...

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Airbnb Sees Booking Gold Rush Ahead Of Rio Olympics
Airbnb Sees Booking Gold Rush Ahead Of Rio Olympics
August 04, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

Airbnb managed to undercut a hotel industry that had been entrenched in global society for decades upon decades based on one simple principle: better lodgings...

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Lyft Ridership Is Reaching New Heights
Lyft Ridership Is Reaching New Heights
August 04, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

Objects in a car’s side-view mirror can often be larger than they appear. That’s good advice for Uber, because Lyft’s ridership numbers are starting to...

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Retail Bedfellows Tracker: Tesla Gets Tanned, Lululemon Outfits Olympians
Retail Bedfellows Tracker: Tesla Gets Tanned, Lululemon Outfits Olympians
August 04, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

Three Dog Night’s prescient lyrics warned us all that while one is most certainly the loneliest number, “Two can be as bad as one / It’s the...

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Skype Launches Full Suite Of Chatbots
Skype Launches Full Suite Of Chatbots
August 04, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

Before Facetime, Skype introduced the idea of instantaneous global video and text chats to the average consumer. Fast forward several years and human talkers are no...

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Mastercard And BJ’s To Offer A ‘Priceless’ Boston Experience
Mastercard And BJ’s To Offer A ‘Priceless’ Boston Experience
August 03, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

Boston doesn’t quite make it into the top tier of U.S. cities, like New York, L.A. and Chicago, but what it does offer in history,...

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