Just in time for holiday and Christmas shopping, Walmart has launched The Walmart Toy Lab where kids can play with the top 20-rated toys on their computer or tablet. ...
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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 ...
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It’s a week from Black Friday, but the Black Friday ads are already running in full force. To help you get through the weekend while you shop online, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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If you’re a certain age, you might remember the grand FW Woolworth’s department store. Founded in 1878, the successful chain pioneered the five-and-dime store where you could find ...
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With the opening of its second store in Seattle, Amazon Go is in the vanguard of the cashier-less checkout movement. Though checkout automation has been a goal for ...
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According to Gartner L2’s Amazon Intelligence: Third-Party Distribution Strategies Playbook report, Amazon has a substantial counterfeit products problem. Gartner estimates 33% of third-party vendor listings have at least one ...
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Here’s a roundup of the global payments news we’re reading heading into the weekend. Lots of new developments in identity fraud, retail ups and downs, new payments industry ...
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Our newsletter this week has a feature report on dating site Ashley Madison” unique gift card payments program designed to protect client anonymity. As well, we look at ...
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