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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.

Eat, Pay, Love — a Meditation on Holiday Spending
Eat, Pay, Love — a Meditation on Holiday Spending
December 03, 2022  |  Retail

It turns out that dining, shopping, and even paying for such delights is uplifting. As in scientifically, and numerically as the case may be for...

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How Digital Payments Solve Bad Retail Experiences
How Digital Payments Solve Bad Retail Experiences
December 02, 2022  |  Retail

Some of the world’s biggest retailers are experiencing a paradigm shift. They are focusing on user experience in-store as a key feature of their competitiveness...

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60% of Consumers Say Discounts Will Determine Holiday Shopping Loyalty 
60% of Consumers Say Discounts Will Determine Holiday Shopping Loyalty 
December 01, 2022  |  Retail

A new study shows price is everything as budget-minded decisions are consumers’ top drivers. In the latest edition of “New Reality Check: The Paycheck-To-Paycheck Report:...

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Bread Financial Expands BNPL Offering
Bread Financial Expands BNPL Offering
November 28, 2022  |  BNPL

With consumers increasingly turning to installment payments for their holiday shopping, financial services firm Bread Financial has made its buy now, pay later (BNPL) offering...

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More Consumers Shopped With Apps Than at Malls on Black Friday
More Consumers Shopped With Apps Than at Malls on Black Friday
November 28, 2022  |  Shopping

Inflation cast a long shadow over Black Friday 2022. Consumer prices rose 7.7% year over year in October, leaving millions of consumers wary as they...

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Mastercard: Black Friday Spending Up 12% Despite Inflation
Mastercard: Black Friday Spending Up 12% Despite Inflation
November 27, 2022  |  Retail

In spite of inflation, American consumers spent the day of Thanksgiving shopping — both online and off — and dining out, leading to double-digit sales...

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Retailers Say BNPL Boosts Sales, Consumers Say It Keeps Them Coming Back
Retailers Say BNPL Boosts Sales, Consumers Say It Keeps Them Coming Back
November 23, 2022  |  Buy Now Pay Later

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) has quickly grown in popularity among consumers. PYMNTS research found that in the past year, 50 million consumers across the...

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Holiday Spending out of Reach for Millions of Households This Year
Holiday Spending out of Reach for Millions of Households This Year
November 21, 2022  |  Economy

Visions of sugarplums could be the only thing millions of Americans can count on getting during the 2022 holidays, as new PYMNTS data has uncovered...

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Holiday Shoppers Shift from Dining Out to Food at Home
Holiday Shoppers Shift from Dining Out to Food at Home
November 18, 2022  |  Commerce Connected

As inflation continues to rise, consumers are becoming more frugal in their holiday food spending, shifting away from dining out at restaurants towards more cost-effective...

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