PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

It’s doubtful that many PYMNTS readers play video games. It’s gotten to the point where the reality of “professional gaming” is no longer some "out there" idea, and is currently pushing the boundaries of several industries at once while drawing fresh eyes and attracting big money from those looking to cash in on the hot new action. “It

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2020

Virtual reality maybe on the verge of its first retail hit. If Baltimore Ravens quarterback and last season’s NFL MVP Lamar Jackson has anything to do with it, VR gaming has arrived. Jackson himself has been part of the game’s development and promotion of the game. It has started as a training program.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2019

The pilot will provide service to customers in Olmos Park, just outside of downtown San Antonio where the grocery retailer is based,” according to TechCrunch. The move is only the latest effort to up the grocery delivery game via the use of autonomous delivery. Kroger Push. For instance, Kroger Co.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

It seems that old-fashioned video games are that hot new item, assuming they are in pristine condition and come in factory packaging, according to a new report in The New York Times. The hottest investments are games for the Nintendo Entertainment System, which popularized characters like Link, Mega Man and Mario in the 1980s.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

As it gears up to reopen in Las Vegas, Caesars Entertainment Corporation said it would resume its gaming and hospitality functions at Flamingo Las Vegas and Caesars Palace at “the date and time for reopening specified by the state of Nevada.” Steve Sisolak and public health authorities, according to an announcement.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Epic Games is rolling out a new monthly subscription service — Fortnite Crew — for Xbox and Playstation gaming systems, timed with the Dec. As of May, Epic Games reported that it had over 350 million registered Fortnite players. . Epic Games and Apple could be headed to trial next year over the future of Fortnite on iOS.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2019

Recent days have brought new evidence of the importance of robust loyalty and rewards problems in retail, an areas of ongoing innovation, and a way for merchants of all types to stand apart in a fiercely competitive industry. Retail Card Programs. The move adds to Trax’s stable of retail tech.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

While the super-secret Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) gave us the original Internet, online gaming platforms are bringing forth the Metaverse. Currently, a frontrunner in all things Metaverse is Epic Games , whose Fortnite multiplayer game is the most widely-subscribed with an estimated 350 million players worldwide.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The holidays are approaching, and that means a big retail boost for video games during that all-important shopping season. Indeed, video games are helping to drive innovation when it comes to commerce and payments. Video games have changed a lot since the early days of home gaming in the late 1970s and early ’80s.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Luxury and upscale retail are undergoing some significant changes as the holiday shopping season kicks off and a new decade approaches. The retailer recently delivered earnings that beat analysts’ expectations for the recently completed financial quarter, even as its net sales declined year over year. Social Retail.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

McNicoll said the quick gains aren’t surprising, as physical retail stores essentially closed down worldwide for months. If a consumer wanted to buy something, doing it digitally was pretty much the only game in town. By contrast, it took a decade for it to hit 16 percent from less than 6 percent 10 years ago.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

Hot on the heels of its close cousin, augmented reality (AR), more retailers are using immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences to entice customers through the doors of physical storefronts. While many retailers are using the technology to create tailored experiences for their brands, it may well become a new way for customers to shop, too.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

gambling industry, with three states authorizing legal sports betting and three others either approving or expanding casino gaming, the Associated Press (AP) reported. One big winner of Tuesday's elections was the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

With every passing year, it becomes harder and harder to talk about, or even think about, the global digital and mobile ecosystem without considering the place of gaming within that world. This means that Niantic has done something unique in gaming. Louis, Philadelphia and Liverpool to the gaming event list. Southern Accents.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2020

And in gaming, Las Vegas casinos shut their doors in mid-March due to the pandemic, which sent Nevada’s unemployment rate to almost twice the U.S. consumers who are now buying retail goods online as of May 23. consumers who are now buying retail goods online as of May 23. economy continue to reopen. All this, Today in Data.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

But the growing use of those brands to attract sales is also leading to more focus on potential challenges for online, private label retail over the next few years. Private brands, of course, are hardly new, and their use in retail predates the birth of eCommerce. Consumers can buy furniture anywhere. Private Label Pivot.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

The big event promises to be voice-activated and voice-assisted — following trends in the larger world of payments and commerce, and the sharp rise of voice-assisted retail during the recently completed 2018 holiday shopping season. The NFL earlier this season jumped into the voice-assistant technology game , too.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In technology, Amazon has unveiled its new Luna cloud gaming offering, as it became the latest Big Tech firm to launch its collection of pre-holiday shopping selections. 5.99: Starting monthly price for Amazon’s Luna gaming subscription. 7%: Average minimum APR for credit cards offered by credit unions.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Some retailers are just excellent about telling stories about themselves and about the products that they're selling,” Taylor told PYMNTS. The reason retailers find it easy to use, and the company’s unique value proposition, is that it builds and optimizes online storefronts in a no-code environment.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

Discount retailer T.J.Maxx is partnering with Instagram tastemakers to promote a new term called “Maxximizing,” which the company says means not needing to sacrifice on quality or price to find cherished items, according to a press release by the brand. . ” There are two ways to play the game.

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Reckon

MARCH 19, 2023

Despite taking a meaty hit during the pandemic, the retail industry endures as a viable and attractive way to sell goods. But to combat rising interest rates and inflationary pressure , you need to continually evolve your retailing approach and stay on your toes. Embrace eCommerce too The issue for retailers is location.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

For instance, Fortnite parent Epic Games announced plans earlier this month to buy the Cary Towne Center mall near its current Cary, North Carolina headquarters and turn the 87-acre site into its new corporate HQ. But the mall began to falter in the 1980s, and its last tenant – a Montgomery Ward – closed in 1997.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Augmented reality (AR) has long been associated with games like Pokémon Go and Zombies, Run! However, AR is now rewriting the rules of the retail game. Before jumping head first onto the AR bandwagon, though, retailers need to ask themselves: How do AR features like these build up the brand names of the retailers that use them?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

“Game of Thrones” has no difficulty driving viewership. But viewership picked up rapidly from there, and ballooned in each of the show’s seven seasons, such that “Game of Thrones” isn’t just HBO’s most watched show today — it is its most watched show ever. It is an opportunity to create an entire retailing event.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2019

Online giant Amazon is reportedly developing a video game streaming service that wouldn’t involve a peripheral and would solely exist on the internet, according to reports. The video game industry has been steadily changing from a physical disc business into a download-type service, with the proliferation of faster online download speeds.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

You have probably noticed, but in case you haven’t, let’s just state the blunt truth: When it comes to subscription commerce, one of the hottest areas of payments and retail, things are getting brutal out there. This is a zero-sum game.” Actually, not just brutal, but almost existential, in a fight-for-dominance type of way.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

But as it moves away from concept and toward reality, the metaverse could become a legitimate platform for retail. For retail purposes, there are two kinds of metaverses. For retail purposes, there are two kinds of metaverses. Both hold significant opportunities for retail. Sounds more like retail than gaming.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

But in other ways, it was business as usual, as the two biggest retailers in the world – Walmart and Amazon – posted stellar earnings numbers and competed in more muted ways for the U.S. percent of total consumer spending in Q2 (spanning all categories, including retail) and 9 percent of total retail spending. That’s up from 9.6

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Beyond the Cyber Monday deals from big-box retailers offering deep discounts on TVs, Xboxes and other big-ticket items, there are the smaller retailers trying to have skin in the game. Big retailers are more able to take in those discounts by enticing customers to buy more or other items. Retail Group.

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Snyder

DECEMBER 1, 2022

And basically, there are two strategies that can be of great help here – multichannel and omnichannel retailing. What is multichannel retail: Different bags for your eggs. What is omnichannel retail: The power of integration. Omnichannel retail strategy: How to win at omnichannel retail. Contents: 1.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

However, if you are among the 68 million people expected to place bets on the big game, you need to know that taxes are part of the equation. Super Bowl LVIII kickoff time Before delving into IRS sports betting tax rules, it’s good to have the key details of the game. Super Bowl 2024 is on Sunday, Feb.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

And in many places, for the first time, our retailers are open to it. Someone asked me a couple of weeks ago, ‘why is Blackhawk in the payments game now?’” And the answer is, “Yes, a bar code can give you a way to do that — and in a form that retailers already understand how to accept.”. Narlinger said. Can we unpack it?’

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

retailers are concerned about a supply chain problem. While no direct evidence has been presented for a supply chain interruption from China, a new Wells Fargo report says concerns are rising among retailers. Every retailer has what’s known as an ‘All Hazard Plan.’ Chinese retailers are being hit hard.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

From Amazon to Shopify , tech companies and eCommerce retailers are adopting features to up their checkout games (and presumably improve conversions in the process). From Pet Plate to Google, eCommerce retailers and technology firms are using features at checkout that could help drive conversions. Nearly all — or 98.7

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

Retail innovation labs – incubators or tech hubs – aren’t confined to operations run by the likes of Amazon or Walmart. A new lab store from 7-Eleven underscores the innovation wave that is taking place in the convenience store sector of retail – a sector ripe for change, disruption and growth. Innovation Lab Growth.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

As evidenced by last week’s PYMNTS’ card on file report , consumers are ready and willing to keep their data with retailers, both online and offline, in exchange for frictionless experiences. Its analysis showed retail transaction growth of 81 percent in May, compared to 2019.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2019

In one sense, that describes the situation for mobile commerce — specifically, retail apps — as 2020 looms. New research from PYMNTS and LISNR digs deep into consumer views of mobile retail apps. It’s not because of lack of choice — in all, some 5 million apps, retail and other types, are available for downloading.

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