Urban Outfitters announces disappointing holiday sales, group CEO departure

Urban Outfitters, Inc. reported total company net sales for the two months ended December 31, 2020, decreased 8.4 percent over the same period last...

Amazon’s marketplace business is growing once again

Third-party seller services and overall marketplace growth helped fuel Amazon’s third-quarter earnings. This past quarter, Amazon’s online stores business grew 7% year-over-year to $57.2 billion....

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Will Self-Checkout Ever Win Over Its Critics?

Self-checkout stations show little signs of slowing their expansion across retail, yet critics only appear to be getting louder. In a recent article in The Atlantic,...

American Express expands small business perks as it reportedly falls under federal investigation

Dive Brief: Days before The Wall Street Journal reported federal investigators were looking into American Express' sales to business owners, the company introduced more incentives...

Digital Shift Leads Mastercard To Take Contactless Payments To The Cloud

If the sky’s the limit for contactless payments, which the pandemic has certainly shown, and if the technology is deployed across mobile devices ......