PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

It’s been 10 full days since government workers missed their paychecks due to the prolonged government shutdown, and one of the most recognizable crowdfunding companies is stepping in to help. I hope the shutdown ends soon. We hope this ends soon and your lives return to normal.”. This is not about politics.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

Lower digital sales penetration, a slower cadence of store reopenings, less agile management, and a continuing reluctance among many consumers to visit malls were all likely contributors to this dreadful sales performance,” said The Motley Fool. I think the majority of retail is going to have a tough time surviving another major shutdown. …

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

"It's gratifying that KKR sees such incredible value in our brand and that they will continue to support us in doing what we do best — delivering the best vision care to consumers with the highest quality customer service,” 1-800 Contacts CEO John Graham said in the announcement.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

This follows the attack in which hackers asked for $6 million in exchange for the return of private consumer information. As of today, the Travelex website still redirects to an advisory page, informing customers that the site is down as a “precautionary measure.”

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

Le Garrec described his initial experience of the shutdown as something of a mad dash for survival. But will the consumers actually return? Merchants of all types and sizes are wondering if consumers will be excited to return to old habits like shopping in stores and eating in bistros. Powering The Pivot .

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

But for credit-union servicer CO-OP Financial Services , an 18-month effort to stand up a 150,000-person call center came to fruition in mid-March, just days before shutdowns began going into effect nationwide. Adapting to Changing Consumer Needs. A Data-Driven Future.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Ajay Chopra, who founded Pinnacle Systems, a digital video hardware and software company for consumer and broadcast markets, wrote a column in TechCrunch about the viability of a private equity buyout for a startup. The option, the current venture capitalist said, is one worth seriously considering.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Until recently there was “a consumer” who industry felt it understood, and whose tastes it knew well enough to gauge the market of new products and services. In chronicling the digital shift since it went into high-gear last spring, PYMNTS has gathered valuable business intelligence on the demands of new digital-first consumers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Italians, as it turned out, weren’t terribly avid digital consumers pre-pandemic, with only 40 percent of consumers shopping online compared to 87 percent of British consumers and 79 percent of German shoppers. based consumers. So, what’s the hold up? Once locked down, Italians began adoption of eCommerce at record speed.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Consumer confidence was at an all-time high, and unemployment at an all-time low. Consumer spending was strong, as were their household balance sheets. The construction and manufacturing sectors were the most bullish, as consumers bought new houses and invested in improving the ones in which they were living.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Certain banks catering to small businesses will also continue to receive government support in the wake of a massive shutdown earlier this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. China’s economy returned to growth in the second quarter and is now the only leading economy to show significant growth in 2020, with GDP growing 0.7%

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2020

Consumers certainly want to dine out again: When PYMNTS has polled them on the subject, eating at restaurants only trails seeing friends and family on the list of reasons to venture out. But there’s also a bit of a gap between what consumers want to do and what they will feel safe doing. But what is “normal?”. Really, really inventive.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Local coffee shops had to close their doors due to shutdown orders and found that they needed to rethink their entire operational plans just to survive. What shops get in return is the ability to take orders digitally. “So, these independent shops really became a haven for that intimate, personal experience.”. What Happens Next .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

They’ve been forced to redesign their operations around digital services nearly overnight in response to shutdowns, he said, but face the real possibility that they’ll be driven out of existence by mega-digital players like Amazon or DoorDash. “It Doing so makes it easier to build directly and specifically for those consumers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2019

If there’s one lesson that credit union (CU) members took away from the 35-day government shutdown earlier this year, it’s that cooperative institutions have their members’ backs. However, CUs offered more than financial relief and products to their members during the shutdown. In fact, 81.3 In addition, 80.6 In fact, 33.3

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

Consumer spending data from J.P. The numbers showed a 10 percent decline in spending compared to a year ago, albeit higher numbers as compared to the height of the pandemic’s economic destruction in March and April during the nationwide shutdowns, CNBC reported. In addition, unemployment filings have been spiking in recent weeks.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

As most of our readers have likely noticed, since early March, toilet paper has gone from an afterthought during the weekly grocery run to the hottest consumer good in the U.S. Afterward, those engineers were left stranded in Georgia as their return flights were canceled due to the airline shutdown.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2020

Summer looms, and for those who had hoped for some return to normalcy — baseball games, movies, trips to New York City to see well, anything — those hopes appear dashed to a large measure. animated film, won’t return even after Broadway reopens at some point in the future. consumers about how the pandemic has impacted their routines.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

The government agency said shutdowns imposed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus since late March caused the decline, the worst it has been in two dozen years. But consumer demand and manufacturing have not improved, the AP reported. He said economic growth would not return to pre-pandemic levels anytime soon.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

Unfortunately, this extended period of shutdowns and slow economic activity means fewer businesses will be around in the latter half of the year. However, this doesn’t discount the massive changes that have impacted consumer and business markets, and it doesn’t undercut the lessons we can take away from this crisis.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

After all, government shutdown orders have in many cases closed eateries for months, forced them to only offer takeout, reduced their dining-room occupancy levels or some combination of all three. Those that do can display a special decal in their doorway so consumers can spot participating restaurants. restaurants. million of the 156.6

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MOSPI) said last week the shutdowns to prevent the spread of the coronavirus since late March were responsible for the decline. He added economic growth will not return to pre-pandemic levels anytime soon.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

The United States economy is steadily reemerging from the COVID-19 pandemic-induced shutdown. It is using the cards to disburse stimulus funding to approximately 4 million consumers. Businesses are reopening to a different reality than the one that existed just three months ago, however.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2020

In a nod to community efforts to boost customer experienced, individual consumers can report on health efforts at Texas eateries — and whether they are enforcing standards such as social distancing and more official standards mandated by the state’s governor.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2020

There seem to be countless sources of collateral damage associated with the unexpected appearance of COVID-19 in early 2020 – the shutdown of production in China, the ripples through the global supply chain, the virtual zeroing out of the travel and events vertical and the carnage on Wall Street.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2020

The restaurant industry is in a state of massive flux, with almost all on-site dining switched to carry-out as shutdowns in most U.S. Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, he said, restaurants were already expanding and improving their pickup and delivery capabilities in an attempt to build better and more convenient consumer experiences.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Home improvement product sales, meanwhile, increased 9 percent, a growth trend that started before the holiday shopping season, and which Sadove attributed to sluggishness in new housing sales and a resulting “reinvestment” by consumers in their existing residences. Consumers also were interested in investing in new fashion trends.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2020

The report said the car industry, which was already affected by a drop in sales and dwindling consumer confidence even before the coronavirus struck, has been forced to shutter its factories and showrooms for weeks due to the pandemic. and Europe.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

Las Vegas is betting that, with social-distancing restrictions in place, customers will return to its famed casinos. Casinos will face the challenge of competing with the online gambling that many consumers have gone to during U.S. Nevada’s governor has given the go-ahead for casinos to reopen on June 4.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

Three of them are the most compelling: sheer numbers, market conditions and consumer sentiment. consumers have gone online to shop since the pandemic started. There are solid reasons consumers are going online, most having to do with health and safety. There are many reasons that the number seems overly aggressive.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2020

If Amazon sees any M&A deals this year, it will likely be on the infrastructure side: shipping, return platforms and payment mechanisms. The stark fact is that retailers that can stay in business through what is basically a 90-day shutdown have access to a line of credit or receive substantial eCommerce business.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

With a sense of intense urgency, the corporate card arena began to explore how to support some of the companies that were struggling the most as a result of an economic shutdown: small businesses. As the pandemic spread across Europe, and eventually the U.S., Spring began in dramatic fashion. In late-March, Bloomberg reported that large U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

With a successful Singles Day in the books for Alibaba, last week was a referendum on the spending power and preference for Chinese consumer. consumer’s spending power as Kohl’s, Walmart, Macy’s, Target and other brick-and-mortar-based retailers report their earnings. The consumer here in the U.S. The consumer here in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

PYMNTS’ research division has tracked the pandemic’s progress since the first week of March – not just in economic terms, but with regard to the sentiments of consumers and business leaders contending with this extraordinary event. Even before any official shutdowns, 43.8 By mid-April, the U.S. percent of U.S. percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2020

Box Office returns came care of the Ocala Drive-In Theater of Ocala, Florida, which showed a double bill of the World War II biopic “Resistance” and the indie psychological thriller “Swallow” for a ticket price of $6. . While theaters may have closed down, consumers’ demand for movies has not disappeared.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

Keeping the public safe during the coronavirus pandemic means ensuring consumers stay home to avoid further spreading the virus through person-to-person contact. Reaching out online is helping clubs endure the shutdown. Flexibility Training for Business Formats.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

Of all the verticals hit hard by the global pandemic, hotels have seen their business slowed to a near stop as shutdowns and social-distancing rules bring travel of all kinds to a near halt. The AHLA’s Rogers expects to see travelers continue to return to hotels, although not back at 2019 levels. With the U.S.

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