The past year has pushed local businesses into the limelight in the United Kingdom. It has been 16 months since health-related closures began, and the...
Pollinate, which equips banks with a toolkit for small businesses, is teaming with Mastercard to roll out its “Ingenious” filmmaker competition that will highlight the...
The timeworn phrase “think global, act local” is attributed (somewhat mistakenly) to the 1915 book “Cities in Evolution” by civic planner Sir Patrick Geddes. The...
In any crisis, a sense of community infuses human emotion and behavior. It’s exactly the effect we’re seeing, but with a twist. New data reveals...
Small businesses may be the backbone of the United States economy, but one might not know it from looking at U.S. consumers’ shopping habits. American...
According to PYMNTS’ Making Loyalty Work For Small Businesses produced in collaboration with Pollinate, nearly half of consumers said they think it is critical to...
In theory, the pandemic period has done wonders to boost consumers’ connections to their local businesses worldwide. When PYMNTS, in cooperation with Pollinate, surveyed 4,519...
Reconnoitering the levers and dials of experience as it relates to loyalty, PYMNTS researchers recently uncovered four distinct personas emerging post-pandemic. “Local shoppers” prefer intimate...
The past 15 months have hit small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) hard. Mom-and-pop shops around the world have struggled to get by since March 2020,...