Smaller players in both the trucking industry and the truck stop industry are challenged to match the efficiencies of their larger competitors. Trucking companies with fleets of 20 or fewer vehicles can’t negotiate the same discounts as larger firms when it comes to their greatest...
In times past, a creator might’ve been a musician busking for tips on a street corner. Social media thrust those musicians — and artists, poets, podcasters, makeup artists and more — into the mass media limelight where they’re finding audiences but struggling to get paid....
Restaurant commerce platform GoTab has unveiled new capabilities that let “multi-operator locations” automate vendor payouts and streamline ordering. According to a Monday (Aug. 22) news release emailed to PYMNTS, GoTab for Multi-Operator Locations gives vendors individualized control of menu management and reporting — along with...
The stocks of online car companies have been volatile, to say the least. Double-digit swings (up and down) have been the norm over the past few days as they add services to woo consumers. But beyond the vagaries of share price movements, the data and...
Fans and superfans are an enthusiastic bunch. They’re already connected through team apps, video games and other forms of digital engagement, but we’re only at the beginning of what these experiences can deliver at ballparks and other venues as sports teams and their payments tech...
To get a sense of just how pervasive the digital shift has become, how connected we really are, and will be, in the Connected Economy — look to the cloud. Earnings reports from the likes of Google (through its parent company Alphabet) and Amazon —...
Consumers’ expectations about payments are changing — so much so that it’s no longer the transaction they’re focused on. Instead, they are focused on the experiences tied to each and every time they send or receive money. Ideally, that money movement should be barely noticeable...
Merchants and brands are rightly obsessed with reaching consumers where they congregate, like social channels, but what if you could expand that to wherever they happen to be? It’s the next generation of omnichannel selling — in this case, actuated by a merchant’s ability to...
At the start of the pandemic, grocers could stay ahead of consumers’ self-service expectations by having a self-checkout kiosk. Today, however, the emergence of new technologies and the popularization of checkout methods that used to be on the fringe have upped the ante. Now, grocers...
