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NEW REPORT: On-Demand Solutions That Store Stuff, Reclaim Living Space
 

Tiny city apartments create big headaches for residents needing space to stash their stuff. For September’s Payments as a Service PYMNTS Tracker™, Closetbox CEO Marcus Mollmann reveals how his own moving and storage frustrations inspired him to launch an urban on-demand pickup and storage marketplace. How payments made that play possible, plus updates on more than 90 PaaS providers — inside the Tracker.

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Price Matching: Retail’s Ruination — Or Revival?
 

Consumers love price matching and price adjustments — and why shouldn’t they? But retailers might not be as in love with the hit to their margins they bring. Paribus’ CEO Eric Glyman told Karen Webster in this week’s Topic TBD that price matching and adjustments are well worth the conversions retailers enjoy when they make them a part of doing business.
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PYMNTS Data Dive

Transitions Edition: SoFi, Chipotle And Equifax
 

The transition to fall has officially arrived. And speaking of transitions, we had a few in payments last week. SoFi transitioned its mindset away from thinking it could be a bank, Chipotle transitioned to queso and Equifax is being strongly advised by banks that a big transition is more or less make or break for them.

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Does Amazon Plus Kohl’s Equal Retail’s Future?
 

Amazon and Kohl’s made news last week when Kohl’s announced it would accept Amazon returns in its stores. In between headlines bemoaning Kohl’s fate for letting the proverbial fox in the henhouse, Kohl’s stock price closed last Friday over $45 a share for the first time all year. Karen Webster asks whether this move portends a whole new take on what it means to be an omnichannel retailer, and just how far they, together, might push the omnichannel envelope. Which, based on new research on retailer readiness and consumer satisfaction with the merchants they shop, Webster says, could be pretty far.

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