Walmart Online Sales Explode In the immortal words of American sports announcer Michael Buffer â let's get ready to rumble. Walmartâs latest results are out â and with 60 percent growth in online sales, plus same store sales growth on the rise â Walmart is clearly taking the fight for retail dominance right to Amazon's front door. We have it all here, by the numbers and beyond. Read More... |
US Consumer Debt â Ten Years Later Ten years after the Great Recession, stats on overall household and credit card debt â both on the rise â tell a complicated consumer story. A story that Unifund's Chief Strategy Officer, Michael Schwartz, tells PYMNTS can be understood only by looking inside the data. He did. Read More... |
Too Much Security? Thereâs No Such Thing In eCommerce, thereâs no such thing as âtoo much security,â but the wrong kind of security can feel like too much to the consumer if it creates friction at the point of sale. That can lead to shopping cart abandonment and lost revenue. Yet, cybercrime is only increasing, and legacy solutions just arenât cutting it anymore. Itâs clear that something must be done. So howâs an eTailer to walk the fine line? RSAâs Angel Grant, director of Global Product Marketing and Strategy, has some tips. Read More... |
| Global Cash Index™ | NEW REPORT: In Australia, Is Cash On The Barbie? Cash and contactless payments in Australia are all up in each otherâs grills (er, barbies) over small-value transactions. And, according to the PYMNTS.com Global Cash Index⢠Australia Analysis, cash is winning with more than 60 percent of these transactions powered by the cold, hard stuff. For contactless payments to gain an advantage, says Raghavendra Bhat, head of technology for ANZ Bank, payment processors and acquirers need to incentivize SMBsâ card use. Find that, plus more than 200 data points mapping cashâs state in Australia. Read More... | |