Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2025

Which explains why, in the course of a single week, three of the largest payment providers in the country Visa, Mastercard and PayPal all announced new agentic AI integrations and capabilities. “Over 25 years ago, PayPal made history by simplifying digital money movement.

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My Wife Quit Her Job

DECEMBER 26, 2023

In this episode, I uncover the truth about PayPal, all the fees, the hidden charges, and how you can save money with your credit card processing with your online store. In the event that your PayPal account is currently limited or banned, I will teach you how to get your money back and how to prevent your account from getting limited.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2024

PayPal is entering the media business with plans for a new advertising platform that will draw on its relationships with millions of consumers and merchants to help the latter “sell more products and services effectively,” according to a company statement. I’m thrilled to have Mark join our team and lead this important work.”

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2023

UPS has agreed to acquire reverse-logistics solution Happy Returns from PayPal for an undisclosed amount. The company was acquired by PayPal a little over two years ago as part of PayPal’s ambition to expand beyond payments and become a “ digital commerce enablement engine.” including Petco , Hibbett , Ulta Beauty and Staples.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

Responding to an escalating demand for contactless payment options, CVS Pharmacy will offer PayPal and Venmo QR code technology, enabling customers to check out touch-free in all 8,200 stand-alone CVS Pharmacy locations in the U.S. The program is scheduled to roll out nationwide in Q4.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2023

JPMorgan Chase , Bank of America , Wells Fargo and the four other banks behind the money transfer network Zelle are developing a digital wallet to challenge the dominance of PayPal and Apple Pay. PayPal still dominates the space, accounting for approximately 16% of all U.S. By 2025, digital wallets are expected to account for 52.5%

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2023

PayPal Holdings has named long-time Intuit executive Alex Chriss as its new President and CEO, effective Sept.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 18, 2022

PayPal has introduced PayPal Rewards, a unified program accessible via the company’s app that allows customers to shop while earning, tracking, saving and redeeming rewards. The PayPal Honey extension will remain in place with the new program, but Honey Gold rewards will become PayPal Rewards.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Key non-endemic advertising partners include DoorDash , Hulu and PayPal. Rokt’s technology is designed to give Ulta Beauty complete control over which ads customers see during the post-purchase experience and how frequently.

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BigCommerce

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Welcome to The Make it Big Podcast, a bi-weekly audio series about all things ecommerce by BigCommerce. One year after…

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Groove

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Think about the types of sales your business makes when looking at fees and the ease of integration with different payment systems, like PayPal, Authorize.Net, or Stripe.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2025

shoppers in July 2024 ; In March 2025 Lowe’s introduced its Mylowe conversational AI agent; and Payment platforms Visa, Mastercard and PayPal introduced agentic AI functionalities in May 2025.

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Forrester eCommerce

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Last week, PayPal acquired a Los Angeles-based company called Honey for a whopping $4 billion. While it certainly wasn’t under the radar (PayPal issued a press release, posted a video, and hosted a conference call about it), the media barely (with a few rare exceptions) picked up the story in spite of the fact that […].

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2025

In August 2024, the company hired Elina Vilk as its new Chief Business Officer, who has had stints at major tech companies including Hoostuite , Meta , PayPal and Visa. In December 2024 , Davids Bridal acquired the wedding media brand Love Stories TV (now rebranded as Love Stories by Davids ) and launched the Pearl Media Network.

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Groove

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Specifically, it accepts payments from major providers like PayPal, Stripe, Apple Pay, Pay with Amazon, and others. Using these BigCommerce SEO features will enable you to boost BigCommerce performance, resulting in higher search rankings and a better user experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2022

taking place online, digital payment solutions like Venmo and PayPal (which has owned Venmo since 2013) are well positioned to capitalize on the opportunity. RTP: How does this all fit within the larger PayPal ecosystem, especially where the two brands have similar offerings — do you ever find you’re competing with yourself?

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Kissmetrics

AUGUST 30, 2021

Article sponsored by PayPal. This is why offering BNPL options, like PayPal’s enterprise BNPL , is crucial for attracting the Gen Z market. Trust also impacts what payment methods Gen Z’ers are willing to use, and PayPal offers a considerable competitive advantage. Offer Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) Payment Options.

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Morgan, PayPal, Stripe, Worldline, and Worldpay from FIS. […]. For our latest evaluation in the merchant payment provider space, Forrester identified ten leading vendors and spent the last four months analyzing their offering via a combination of briefings, demos, capability assessments and customer reference checks.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2022

This is the latest development in a nearly four-year transition away from former subsidiary PayPal toward an internally managed end-to-end payments system. eBay and PayPal have been slowly separating their businesses for years, beginning with the 2015 spinoff of PayPal.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2021

Walgreens has introduced the myWalgreens Credit Card program, while supermarket chain Giant Eagle will start accepting PayPal and Venmo in-store as retailers continue expanding their payment options. The move also can speed up payment processes via PayPal and Venmo QR codes. Giant Eagle Seeks to Make In-Store Checkout Seamless.

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BigCommerce

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Well, Brandon did a few things: He used digital wallets intelligently, allowing customers to use one-click payment options like Apple Pay , Amazon Pay and PayPal One-Touch on mobile devices. Faster checkouts: one-page checkouts and digital wallets (Amazon Pay, Apple Pay, PayPal One Touch) improve mobile conversion by up to 10% at launch.

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Kissmetrics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Article sponsored by PayPal. Several tools and apps offer this feature, including PayPal with their Pay in 4 option. PayPal’s offering integrates with the PayPal wallet, allowing users to easily manage payments. Familiar options like PayPal may increase consumer trust, which may increase sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 16, 2022

Loop Returns , the return platform for Shopify brands such as Allbirds , FIGS , Princess Polly and Chubbies , has joined with its competitor Happy Returns by PayPal to offer box-free, label-free drop-off for U.S. consumers at 5,000 Return Bars across the country.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 13, 2024

“You’ll still be able to use a wide variety of credit and debit cards such as Visa , Mastercard and Discover , and other payment methods such as PayPal.” It’s worth noting that PayPal started as an offshoot of Ebay, to facilitate easier payments on what was, 20 years ago, one of the first digital marketplaces.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2022

“Though consumers have increased their frequency of online shopping, returns are commonly an ‘in-person’ experience and are costly and challenging for merchants,” said David Sobie, VP of Happy Returns by PayPal in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Happy Returns by PayPal has teamed with Staples US Retail to offer the Happy Returns in-person service, adding more than 1,000 Staples retail locations to its return service. ” PayPal acquired Happy Returns in May. “Staples is a destination for all things shipping, especially for small businesses and remote workers.

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My Wife Quit Her Job

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

First off, Ebay charges a very high final value fee (~10%) and another 2-3% for PayPal which significantly eats into your profit margin with every sale. All you need is a digital camera and you are ready to sell! But the convenience of Ebay comes at a cost and there are major downsides to the platform.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2023

After a successful trial, Petco is expanding its partnership with PayPal -owned reverse logistics solution Happy Returns to all its stores nationwide. Petco customers can now bring ecommerce orders they need to return with them while running errands for their pets, with no box or shipping label required.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The integration has been almost a year in the making, with Amazon and Venmo parent company PayPal first announcing their plans in November 2021. “We Amazon shoppers will be able to add their Venmo account as a payment method for their Amazon account and even set it up as their default payment option.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2021

The specialty athletic retailer has partnered with FreedomPay to deploy its Next Level Commerce platform across its domestic store network, giving customers the option to pay via contactless payment methods and digital wallets including PayPal/Venmo.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Walgreens is one of a growing number of merchants to offer this service, joining companies such as PayPal, Shell and BP. A prompt on the card terminal will ask the shopper if they want to apply a credit, worth $10 per transaction, based on their available points.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2025

Vilk who joined Davids in August 2024 after stints at Meta , PayPal , Hootsuite , Visa and a range of other tech companies was an unorthodox choice for the role of Chief Business Officer at David’s. You’ve got the audience and now you can maximize the reach of that audience, which allows you to strategically scale throughout.

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Kissmetrics

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Square PayPal FIS Stripe Payline Data Fiserv BitPay Adyen Dharma Merchant Services Fattmerchant. Digital wallets like PayPal, Google Pay or Apple Pay have become extremely popular. 2 – PayPal Commerce Platform Review — The Best for Individuals & Low-Volume Sellers. The Top 10 Credit Card Processing Companies.

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Groove

JANUARY 31, 2022

With over 377 million users, PayPal oversaw nearly $1 trillion in payment volume in 2020 - according to Forbes Magazine. Mobile express checkout is PayPal’s mobile version of their express checkout service. PayPal has shared that 23 million (out of their total 110 million active buyers) regularly use the app on mobile devices.

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Groove

JULY 22, 2024

PayPal Paypal has been in business since 1998, originally under the name “Confinity.” PayPal was one of the first technologies which allowed for safe online transactions and has cemented itself in the eCommerce marketplace for over 20 years. Pros: PayPal offers its services to merchants with no initial setup fee.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 10, 2023

In 2006, Lunn joined PayPal as its fourth employee in the UK as Global Director of Developer and Startup Relations, and in 2015 he was instrumental in the purchase of Braintree by PayPal and joined the team there. In 2016, Lunn helped launch PayPal Ventures, the venture capital arm of PayPal.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 2, 2021

A few recent developments include: In February 2021 , PayPal added its own Pay in 4 service for U.S. The acquisition could generate additional mergers or partnerships in the BNPL space, which already is one of the busiest sectors of the payment ecosystem.

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