Why Bigger Is Not Better For Amazon Packaging, Plus Starbucks Goes Big On AR In China And Stitch Fix Earnings Report Stops Stock Rally Cold.  | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Bringing Subscription Commerce To Real World Retail | | The subscription service, particularly as linked to the “box-of-the-month” concept, has proven popular among eTailers looking to find an audience and build a long-term relationship with it. But can the model make an impact on physical retail? Pop Box made a bet on yes and, as of this week, is finishing up its trial run in Chicago. So, can subscription services become part of the retail reset experience? | | |
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| | | |  | | | CanPay: Solving Pot’s Payments Problem | | The move to cashless has all but eluded the one industry that would love nothing more than to go digital: legal cannabis. In this week’s The Matchmaker Is In, payments vet and CanPay CEO Dustin Eide told Karen Webster that the complexity of doing so dwarfs just about any payments challenge he’s ever seen. Eide takes Webster inside the development of the ACH-debit product that has cashless as its MO, but transparency (to normalize the regulated sale of cannabis) as its guiding principle. Read More... | |
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| |  | | | Solving America’s Paycheck-To-Paycheck Problem | | Walmart’s decision to pay its workers for the time they have worked — in real time — is about easing the stress of the paycheck-to-paycheck lifestyle plaguing many Americans today. Jon Schlossberg, CEO of technology firm Even — the company and platform behind this capability for Walmart — tells Karen Webster how workers are using their real-time pay, and why it’s not just the hourly employees who find the AI-powered financial helping hand to also be a financial management lifeline. Read More... | |
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| | |  | | | Finding Retail’s Big Data ROI | | Data, data everywhere, but how to leverage it to get insight into the best ways retailers can reach consumers? According to Nicole Jass, vice president of data products at Vantiv, data is only part of the battle when gleaning who wants to buy what, when and how. Here’s a hint, though: Payment methodologies matter. Read More... | |
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