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Party City Plans Just 25 Halloween Pop-Ups For 2020

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Party City is hiring 20,000 temporary workers for the holiday season — 80% of its 25,000 seasonal hires in 2019 — even though the retailer is drastically reducing the number of Halloween City pop-up stores it will open this year. The National Retail Federation projects that Halloween spending will dip only 8% from 2019, topping $8 billion.

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Consumer Survey Roundup: Retailers Must Demonstrate Safety Measures To Woo Shoppers Back To Stores

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Consumers have developed new shopping habits during the shutdowns, most notably a greater reliance on e-Commerce, contactless pickup and delivery and mobile payment methods. E-Commerce spending for April and May 2020 was more than $153 billion , 7% higher than the $142 billion spent in November and December 2019.

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Best Retail POS Systems for 2020

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A subsequent survey conducted in 2019 went much deeper and established the precise POS capabilities retail businesses are currently focusing on. 30% of retailers, on the other hand, are focusing on adopting mobile POS solutions, while 41% are hoping to set up integrated ecommerce platforms. Customer data across locations.

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Best POS Systems for Retail 2020

Ecommerce Platforms

A subsequent survey conducted in 2019 went much deeper and established the precise POS capabilities retail businesses are currently focusing on. 30% of retailers, on the other hand, are focusing on adopting mobile POS solutions, while 41% are hoping to set up integrated ecommerce platforms. Customer data across locations.

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Hudson Uses COVID Shutdown to Shave 5 Months off Transaction Platform Deployment

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One aspect of that project is to support contactless mobile payments and self-checkout. Hudson now uses a broader range of hardware, including mobile devices, for processing transactions, “but Flooid is the hub on which all of them converge,” he said. . Our customers have changed, and their preferences have changed,” he said.

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