| SKUx Turns Paper Coupons Into âSmart Incentivesâ Paper coupons create consumer friction, not to mention anything but a real-time return on information about the consumer who redeemed it for the brand or the retailer. SKUx Co-founder and Executive Vice President Bobby Tinsley said in a recent conversation with Karen Webster that âsmart incentivesâ turn the coupon paradigm on its head â and a new partnership with Blackhawk Network is the retail engine to enable it. |
| PYMNTS TV: Payments as a Service |
| Cloud Payments, API Economy Drives Business Advantage For Banks The pandemic has taught banks that corporates must offer a range of payment methods to their customers to stay competitive. In an On The Agenda roundtable with Karen Webster, Deepak Gupta, global head of Payments as a Service (PaaS) at Volante; and Sairam Rangachari, head of platform payments at Onyx by J.P. Morgan; talk about the role that PaaS plays in creating the business advantage banks need to deliver that. |
| COVID-19 Vaccine Logistics |
| Truckers See Financial Recovery In Cold-Chain Vaccine Distribution; Logistics Concerns Remain Getting COVID-19 vaccines to market in less than a year was a miracle, but the logistical challenge of distributing them may be just as daunting. Mike Kucharski, co-owner of JKC Trucking, tells PYMNTS that transporting vaccines will put the ‘cold supply chain’ that usually moves around food to the test – but that truckers who've lost business shipping food to shuttered restaurants and hotels are game. |
| India’s Nascent Pet Care Industry Gets Its First Online Retailer India has millions of dogs, but most are strays and not many are pets. However, Sri Gorthy, a former Google executive turned entrepreneur and proprietor of PetPal, tells PYMNTS that India is seeing changing cultural norms about keeping dogs as pets. That’s driving the growth of PetPal, India’s first online pet retailer. |
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