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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.

eCommerce Leads Levi’s D2C Growth as Online Shoppers Splurge
eCommerce Leads Levi’s D2C Growth as Online Shoppers Splurge
June 26, 2024  |  Earnings

Levi Strauss & Co. is seeing its digital channels drive direct-to-consumer (D2C) growth, with eCommerce customers proving willing to pay full price and to spring...

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More Retailers Imitate Prime Day as Consumers Demand Discounts
More Retailers Imitate Prime Day as Consumers Demand Discounts
June 25, 2024  |  Retail

As retailers look to hold their own among bargain-seeking shoppers this summer in the face of competition Amazon’s ever-more-popular Prime Day, Target is the latest...

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Target Gets a Marketplace and Shopify Merchants Get Distribution
Target Gets a Marketplace and Shopify Merchants Get Distribution
June 25, 2024  |  Retail

For Target, the most immediate impact adding Shopify sellers to its third-party marketplace may be a lift in its online fortunes. To that end, and...

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LTK Adds Automatic Direct Message Tool to Creator Commerce Platform
LTK Adds Automatic Direct Message Tool to Creator Commerce Platform
June 20, 2024  |  Retail

LTK has enhanced its Creator Commerce platform with a new automatic direct message (DM) tool that makes it easier for creators to share the shopping...

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Millennials Are Most Prepared to Trade Down to Private Label
Millennials Are Most Prepared to Trade Down to Private Label
June 20, 2024  |  Consumer Insights

As merchants step up their own-brand offerings, PYMNTS Intelligence research finds that across grocery and retail, millennials prove the most eager to find more affordable...

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1 in 6 Shoppers Choose Merchants Based on Payment Choice
1 in 6 Shoppers Choose Merchants Based on Payment Choice
June 19, 2024  |  Retail

As consumers demand more flexible options at checkout, many shoppers make decisions about where to buy based on whether they can use their preferred payment...

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Zillennials: The Generation Reshaping Commerce With Digital Savvy and Ethical Spending
Zillennials: The Generation Reshaping Commerce With Digital Savvy and Ethical Spending
June 18, 2024  |  Consumer Insights

Zillennials — the bridge generation comprising younger millennials and older members of Generation Z — with their growing earning and purchasing power, are poised to...

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Nearly Three-Quarters of U.S. Shoppers Want Real-Time Inventory Updates
Nearly Three-Quarters of U.S. Shoppers Want Real-Time Inventory Updates
June 17, 2024  |  Consumer Insights

U.S. consumers expect to know, when they go to make a purchase, whether or not the items they want will be in stock, PYMNTS Intelligence...

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Target Aims to Reverse Losses With Private-Label Goods, Price Cuts
Target Aims to Reverse Losses With Private-Label Goods, Price Cuts
June 14, 2024  |  Retail

Target reportedly lost market share in several of its key product categories in the first quarter. The retailer’s share shrank in food and household goods, clothing,...

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