shopping

How consumers find what they want to buy and buy it in a world that is no longer defined by a physical place but what a consumer wants to buy and how she wants to buy it. Connected devices and the integration of payments into this now digital-led shopping journey is creating new ways for merchants and consumers to interact and disrupting traditional retail business models.

Now Entering The Connected Device Arena: Jim Beam
Now Entering The Connected Device Arena: Jim Beam
December 04, 2017  |  Voice Activation

Beam me up, Jimmy. Whiskey maker Jim Beam has entered the connected device arena with a smart decanter for its popular Kentucky-style bourbon whiskey. And...

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What Spontaneous Commerce Can Teach Online Retailers And Payment Providers
What Spontaneous Commerce Can Teach Online Retailers And Payment Providers
December 04, 2017  |  Retail

In January 1950, William Applebaum published a piece in the Journal of Marketing about the buying behaviors of consumers in retail stores. At the time, Applebaum...

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Thinking Inside The Box For Holiday Shopping
Thinking Inside The Box For Holiday Shopping
December 02, 2017  |  Retail

With only 23 days left until Christmas, the pressure is mounting. Sure, there are some Type A people who’ve long since done their holiday shopping...

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Retail Fraud Online Actually Went Down For Black Friday
Retail Fraud Online Actually Went Down For Black Friday
December 01, 2017  |  Retail

Here’s a nice change of pace going into the weekend: It looks like online fraud did something unsual for Black Friday this year. It went...

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Tapping The Power In The Plus-Size Apparel Market
Tapping The Power In The Plus-Size Apparel Market
December 01, 2017  |  Retail

The average American woman’s size doesn’t much resemble the average size of a runway model — a fact well-known to any woman who ever stood in...

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Today In Data: Omnireadi Merchants, Payments Evolve And Supply And Demand Drives Price
Today In Data: Omnireadi Merchants, Payments Evolve And Supply And Demand Drives Price
November 30, 2017  |  Today In Data

The end of the year can make people do things they wouldn’t normally do, like spend three or four times the list price on a...

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eBay Makes Conversational Commerce Leap
eBay Makes Conversational Commerce Leap
November 30, 2017  |  Retail

Online marketplace eBay has launched a new service in partnership with Google, according to news from Chain Store Age on Wednesday (Nov. 27). Through the collaboration,...

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Kroger Beats The Street On Strong Discounting
Kroger Beats The Street On Strong Discounting
November 30, 2017  |  Earnings

Kroger is forecasting some good news for the final quarter of the year — on top of announcing a better-than-expected earnings report for Q3 2017. Wall Street...

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Cyber Monday Is Amazon’s Biggest Day Ever
Cyber Monday Is Amazon’s Biggest Day Ever
November 30, 2017  |  Amazon Commerce

Amazon.com said Wednesday (Nov. 29) that Cyber Monday was the single largest shopping day in the company’s history around the globe, including the biggest ever...

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