FTC looking into Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard buyout: The gaming acquisition frenzy could be cooled off by regulators on alert for anticompetitive advantages
Domino’s Pizza offers a 'tip' to customers who pick up their orders: The campaign aims to help the pizza chain deal with staffing challenges.
On this episode of our new Behind the Numbers show, Reimagining Retail, our analyst Andrew Lipsman hosts Russ Dieringer, founder of Stratably, to discuss intrigue in the executive ranks at key retail media platforms Amazon, Walmart, and Instacart. They also rank their top four retail media trends for 2022.
Digital brokers will need to diversify and expand their offerings to boost user numbers after the retail investor craze ends.
In 2022, increasingly savvy customers expect more from brands than ever before.
UBS’s $1.4B acquisition of Wealthfront brings in new tech and, more importantly, lots of affluent millennial and Gen Z investors.
JD.com hopes the Year of the Tiger will prove auspicious: The ecommerce giant gave away JD.com hopes the Year of the Tiger will prove auspicious: The ecommerce giant gave away RMB1.5 billion ($232.5 million) in a bid to attract users to its payment services. in a bid to attract users to its payment services.
Monzo hangs with a younger crowd: The UK-based neobank won’t join a postal-banking deal that will help older Britons, but it will expand into an investing space that attracts younger consumers.
Because the system can’t turn a profit, it can offer more competitive pricing, which may help spur adoption when it launches in 2023.
Solarisbank, Contis wrap up BaaS bulk-up: The newly merged European banking-as-as-service providers now have a scale that will help them compete in a crowded regional field.
As part of a broader push toward liquidity assistance, checking customers will get a $100 cushion for certain transactions. Alternatives like this are becoming a must-have in a post-fee landscape.
US shoppers saw more out-of-stock messages this past holiday season than in previous years, per an Adobe index that tracks this activity. The index rose to 4.0 during the 2021 season, when US ecommerce consumers received more than 6 billion out-of-stock messages. That’s about an 8% increase year over year and a 264% jump from the pre-pandemic 2019 season.
Chip shortage caused, in part, by lack of manufacturing of older processors: Investors focusing on premium 16 nm chips or smaller results in shortages of cheaper but necessary silicon chips but could lead to continued scarcity of low-cost semiconductors.
Walmart is partnering with AI platform Health at Scale to connect its associates with a doctor that’s the best fit as more workers say they’d give up flexible hours for better health benefits.