During this holiday season, busy shoppers may find that some merchants prefer payments with debit or credit cards instead of cash payments. USA Today reports some of the companies going cashless include clothing retailers such as Bonobos, Indochino, Everlane and Reformation; Amazon bookstores; Casper Mattress; Drybar ...
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Total in-store and online Thanksgiving sales through the holiday weekend showed positive results led by a sharp increase in e-commerce. According to the majority of retail industry analysts, strong Thanksgiving weekend results are leading into the traditionally strong Cyber Monday finale. KeyBanc analysts Edward Yruma, ...
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Leading into the post-Thanksgiving weekend, we’re sharing a collection of global payments news that caught our eye this week, starting with a preliminary Black Friday sales report along with a few summaries of Thanksgiving Day shopping spending. Early indicators reveal a strong Black Friday Black ...
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New research from the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Forrester show retailers, e-commerce sellers and payments industry leaders expect many changes in retail payments in the near future. 44% of retailers no longer require signatures for debit card transactions, 13% will eliminate them by the ...
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SurePayroll estimates US e-commerce platforms lose roughly $18 billion in potential revenue each year to abandoned carts. With the holiday shopping season ready to roll, it’s a great time to consider the impact of a shopping cart abandonment on sales and revenue. According to SalesCycle, ...
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Internet of Things (IoT) payments will total an estimated $24.5 billion in 2018 but Juniper Research predicts the IoT payments market will grow at an impressive average of 75% per annum over the next 5 years, reaching $410 billion by 2023. A large portion of ...
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Here’s the global payments news that got our attention this week, curated and provided for your weekend reading. Look for plenty of pre-Black Friday and holiday sales data and predictions, including a 14% increase in spending this year. Check out the estimated $30 billion organized ...
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Experian‘s 2018 Holiday Survey shows holiday shoppers are in a generally positive mood about holiday shopping and plan to spend 14% more this year than in 2017. The 2018 survey provides useful insight into shoppers’ thoughts on spending plans, budgets and interesting differences between the shopper ...
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Here’s the global payments news that caught our eye this week including Shopify/Venmo and Amazon/AMEX partnerships, Visa’s double-digit growth, Amazon Q3 results, US cross-border payments research, Swedish government’s e-krona digital currency, British Airways hack, Canadian cannabis sales going higher, and much more. It’s payments news ...
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US online merchants are far behind building their cross-border e-commerce growth because most are not offering enough or any local payment methods in international markets. A new PPRO whitepaper shows that US merchants need to make local payment methods (LPM) available because traditional credit card ...
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