Retailers and their private label credit card partners continue to refine their retailer-specific mobile apps, which provide a very important customer loyalty and engagement nexus that increasingly includes payment and loan options.
August 1, 2019China, India, and South Korea are among nations where mobile payments using smartphones to access the internet are more common than using laptops or tablets—hinting at momentum for food e-commerce growth in Asia.
July 22, 2019A number of trends will reshape the pet business for years to come.
March 25, 2019Retailer-specific mobile apps have become an important means of consumer engagement. They have been downloaded by a majority (53%) of smartphone users, and 42% have used them in the past 30 days, according to "Private Label Credit Cards in the U.S., 10th Edition."
November 15, 2017This blog is based in part on Retail Food Marketing Trends in the U.S.: Technology, Mobile, and Social Media. Purchase the report by December 31 and receive a 5% discount using promo code PFFOODRETAIL. Discount chain Target is also a mobile couponing innovator. Target offers a unique mobile app called Cartwheel, in which consumers choose from hundreds of offers with discounts of 5-50% off every area of the store. When a customer sees an offer they like, they add it to the Cartwheel list, scan ...
October 1, 2015This blog is based on the Packaged Facts report Future of Foodservice: Food and Beverage Menu Trends & Opportunities. Purchase the report by December 1 and receive 5% off with promo code PF081715. Retailer emphasis on loyalty programs is influenced by the growing realization that coupons and discount deals often cause only a short-term traffic spike but generally fail to build long-term guest loyalty. This is part of the reason why, compared to other food and non-food retailers (especially the...
August 17, 2015From Electronic Education Report , Dec. 9, 2013 Knewton (New York) in December forged a partnership with the publishing platform Gutenberg Technology (Paris and New York) to develop and distribute interactive course materials for Apple, Android and Windows tablets and smartphones that include Knewton-powered personalization without additional technical work. “The significance of this deal is that we are now working with all of these new education companies that are playing integral and impor...
December 5, 2013From Electronic Education Report , October 28, 2013 Amazon’s (Seattle) October agreement to purchase TenMarks (Burlingame, CA), a provider of web-based K-12 math programs, is seen as a signal from the retail giant that it will be looking to sell more education content and apps and will try to make Kindles a more attractive option for schools seeking tablet computer devices. “Amazon and TenMarks intend to develop rich educational content and applications, across multiple platforms, that we th...
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