August Retail Sales' Surprise Showing; Plus, Rethinking Who Buys Jewelry; And What Voice Moves From McDonald's Mean For Retail's Future | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reimagining The Purchase Path For Fine Jewelry | | The trouble with the traditional jewelry market is that it assumes jewelry is bought by men as a gift for women. But women, Mejuri CEO Noura Sakkijha tells PYMNTS, can buy their own jewelry — what they need is a brand that designs and markets to their day-to-day needs. So five years ago, she decided to be that brand — and she's been carving out an ever-bigger space in the crowded jewelry market ever since. | | |
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| | | | | | | Voice Recognition Could Take a Bigger Role in Retail | | McDonald’s is among the latest major commerce operators to increase their bets on voice recognition tech. Amazon and Google are also using the biometric authentication method for more uses. What’s next for voice recognition technology? Read More... | |
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| | | | | Target Prepares For Holiday Orders; McDonald’s To Acquire Apprente | | Target is preparing to fulfill digital orders over the holidays with the hiring of seasonal workers, while McDonald’s announced an agreement to acquire conversational tech company Apprente. How is Target focusing those workers on digital efforts in its stores, and why is McDonald’s interested in Apprente? Read this week’s Retail Pulse to find out. Read More... | |
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| | | | | | Paying The Non-Compliance Price As SCA Dawns | | Strong customer authentication compliance hits its deadline tomorrow (Sept.14). It’s a red-letter day, to be sure, as we see who’s on the right side of compliance and who’s not among payment providers and merchants. Those who are non-compliant — merchants especially — stand to lose, well, a lot. Read More... | |
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