For most Americans, buy now, pay later (BNPL) is still mostly an online shopping experience. That is where they first encountered the increasingly popular payment method and because BNPL offers in physical locales are less common. But Afterpay is looking to change that as the...
COVID-19’s economic impacts continue to roil the auto industry, but rather than hurt sales, the pandemic is just increasingly moving them to digital channels. The age-old process of “kicking the tires” of a vehicle at a local dealership is increasingly moving to deal-hungry shoppers “clicking the tires”...
COVID-19’s hits seem to just keep on coming. New York City’s mayor is contemplating re-shutting down certain ZIP codes due to new outbreaks, 21 states are reporting rising cases vs. three reporting declines and President Donald Trump just spend days in the hospital with the disease....
There’s no question that the world’s weather patterns are undergoing a massive change. In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth...
July 27, 2021
For most Americans, buy now, pay later (BNPL) is still mostly an online shopping experience. That is where they first encountered the increasingly popular payment method and because BNPL offers in physical locales are less common. But Afterpay is looking to change that as the brand struck a deal with Westfield shopping centers in the U.S., teaming […]
November 29, 2021
Amazon is seeing “record-breaking” Black Friday sales, with Dave Clark, Amazon Worldwide Consumer CEO, saying customers were engaged. Clark, speaking on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” said Sunday (Nov. 28), customers had spent on a myriad of items, including clothes, holiday decor and children’s toys. He said there had been fewer electronics purchases than expected — […]
