The small businesses that are the backbone of each community across the United States are, collectively, the mainstay of everyday life. They employ millions who power spending and the economy. Yet these small businesses and even micro businesses have had their share of challenges, especially...
What’s the most precious resource for a small business? Arguably, there are three: capital, customers and time. Artificial intelligence is emerging as a technology that can act as a triple threat, addressing all three of these resources and making a small business look bigger in...
According to PYMNTS Intelligence, 70% of U.S. consumers are more satisfied when shopping with large merchants than they are when patronizing small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). But this phenomenon isn’t confined to U.S. shores. As PYMNTS found in the “2024 Global Digital Shopping Index: SMB...
Worldwide, when it comes to shopping, consumers no longer think in terms of channels such as in-store or online. For an increasingly larger share, physical stores have become an extension of the digital shopping experience, and shopping is just shopping. This is one prominent trend...
October 15, 2024
In Saudi Arabia, consumers love Click-and-Mortar™ shopping, which mixes the best of online and in-store experiences. More than half of the country’s shoppers prefer either digitally assisted in-store shopping or online order with in-person pickup. Perhaps coming as little surprise, Saudi Arabia’s millennial and Generation Z consumers show the strongest enthusiasm for Click-and-Mortar™ shopping. […]
October 04, 2024
The small businesses that are the backbone of each community across the United States are, collectively, the mainstay of everyday life. They employ millions who power spending and the economy....
June 03, 2024
Consumers around the world want to access specific digital features when shopping, whether they are perusing aisle 3 or clicking from their couch at home. PYMNTS Intelligence recently investigated this...
May 20, 2024
Across Mexico, more consumers are turning to digital shopping features that offer savings and improve convenience while shopping in the store. Consumers enjoy walking into brick-and-mortar locations, but they also...
November 21, 2023
Sheeva.AI and Visa Acceptance Solutions have teamed to launch a tokenization platform for in-vehicle commerce. The collaboration, announced Tuesday (Nov. 21) will see Sheeva.AI — an in-vehicle payments solutions provider — employ Visa’s Cybersource Token Management Service power the first multi-use tokenization platform for in-vehicle payments by using exact vehicle location to permit payments at the point of service. “The […]
