CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Make sure you have the right math and language to explain results driven by direct and indirect marketing spend. As much as possible, CMOs must help their C-suite colleagues understand the math of marketing activities holistically and results throughout the full funnel. Build a tight relationship with your CEO and CFO.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

He didn’t think much of math and science — rather unusual given his choice of a profession that uses complicated math formulas to communicate. Accomplished public intellectual and post-Keynesian economist John Kenneth Galbraith was well-known for four things. His economic principles were what inspired President Lyndon B.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Thanksgiving weekend — including the evening of Thanksgiving itself and the sales that go with it — only generates around 15 percent of holiday spending, according to retail consulting firm Customer Growth Partners. However, Forbes hardly paints the middle of December as the retail doldrums. That’s one way to look at it.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

Retail earnings may have long been looked upon as a benchmark for measuring the growth of the economy but not anymore. The shift in calibration comes as signs of weakening sales in the earnings reports of numerous major retailers were counteracted by the U.S economy — retail.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 20, 2023

But just do the math: Would you prefer to give up 67 basis points (RWM’s dollar-weighted average fee is ~0.67%) or would you prefer to give up 30% of your gains PLUS pay an annual 0.79% fee for the TJUL ETF? The performance numbers reveal this is a terrible trade-off for the average retail investor. Chart after the jump ).

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2016

There once was a time when recurring charges for a regular retail purchase were only copacetic in consumers’ eyes as a way to pay down a big-ticket item over time or the accepted retainer for high-priced fashion and design consultants. Now, however, the subscription model for retail is as normal as the one-off transaction.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2016

It might have been enough for retailers to have come to a collective agreement last year that consumer demand for express delivery was here to stay, but the pressure of keeping shelves stocked has turned some old friends against each other. After all, it’s a dog eat dog world, and retailers are making sure their suppliers know it.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

As a result, Amazon has spent much of the last several months frequently commenting in public that the majority of America’s retail spending takes place in retail stores, and that Amazon’s total share of U.S. retail sales is only 4 percent. And that, as it turns out, is really a matter of how one does the math.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2017

When you think of retail, you think of shoppers stepping into a storefront, or browsing products online — the B2C of commerce. But new data released from alternative SME finance player C2FO is lifting the veil on the B2B side of retail. What’s going on in the backdrop of retail is an underlying need for increased agility and speed.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

And Amazon Prime and Walmart+ prepare to square off as enrollment for Walmart’s new subscription offering opens up to consumers today as the race for the consumer’s grocery dollar continues to intensify between the two mega-retailers. New Math: Walmart+ Doesn’t Equal Amazon Prime. Walmart Revs Up Second Test Program For Drone Delivery.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2020

He believes KiwiCo’s products are effective at developing science, engineering, art and math skills while also maintaining an element of fun. Onderdonk places the order spike around March 12, which is when schools started to close and parents began grappling with keeping their kids engaged and entertained.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2016

If the data is to be believed, families’ choices of how to enjoy their discretionary income in the retail wonderland of America is increasingly being scaled back by higher costs on necessary purchases. percent in 2014 from just 8.8 percent in 2009).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

And as that tidal wave crashes down, retailers are responding in a perhaps unexpected way. Returns for a retailer are a costly headache of reverse logistics. The math gets a bit more involved when it comes to why the consumer is returning an object. Slowing Returns With The Magic Of Discounting .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2017

From some guy’s garage in San Francisco, a group of math nerds has grown into one of the world’s finest-tuned machine learning operations. PYMNTS: Can you show me some data or proof points on how the company has helped retailers? PYMNTS: Can you give the history on the founding and launch of the company?

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

Kristi Argyilan, whom the retailer named as Roundel president, said in a post the brand “represents a different way of thinking” when it comes to how Target serves customers along with its business partners. The report noted that the retailer isn’t the only company reconsidering the strength of a media business that is in-house.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The company plans to focus on its other retailers, including Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works. “We Once it was taken over by L Brands in 1985, the retailer began focusing solely on handbags and accessories. The MATH doesn’t add up,” Jefferies analyst Randal Konik wrote in a note to clients.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The migration away from brick-and-mortar retail toward eCommerce is pressuring retailers to modify their payments operations, but building the in-house infrastructure to support those systems from the ground up can be prohibitively expensive and drain businesses’ time and resources,” according to the new Payments Orchestration Playbook.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

million funding round that closed in March, GameOn will continue to aggressively expand into other areas, including retail. “We When you start doing the math, it pretty quickly becomes an exciting user base.”. Beckman is particularly bullish on the retail category. But with the $10.5

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2020

Retail in recent years has become a very data-intensive industry. In his keynote address to the National Retail Federation (NRF) earlier this week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the industry as a whole throws off 40 terabytes of data an hour. We can now rethink and reevaluate things with math that we’ve never been able to.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

So you can do the math. India is one of the most attractive retail markets in the world, given its size and growth rate, and our investment is an opportunity to partner with the company that is leading the transformation of eCommerce in the market,” said Walmart CEO Doug McMillon in a statement at the time.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Many allow retailers to only pay taxes on the portions of their bundles’ sales prices that refer to taxable items, a process known as “unbundling.” Retailers typically only take this option if they sell the items separately, and can, therefore, show the math behind their billing. Getting To Convenience .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The reason private label works so well in stores, Bread CEO and Co-founder Josh Abramowitz told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, is because they are so well-integrated with the physical retail environments for which they were created. This isn’t the case for retailers born in the online world, Abramowitz contends. What’s Next.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2016

And baseball has the unique ability to bring all kinds of viewers to the table: math geeks, sports fans, people who like drinking beer surrounded by tens of thousands of others. Baseball games, since they proliferate everywhere during the summer months in the U.S., exist at all kinds of price points.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Amazon’s reach may be much bigger than anyone thinks, according to new original reporting by USA Today , and that could mean very big things for the shape of retail in the United States to come. Once the marketplace sellers are added to the math, Amazon’s share of what U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Krakaris saw a particular opportunity in serving marketplaces beyond Amazon through retailers like Walmart, eBay and Jet. Then, Krakaris does some math on the backend to find out where merchants should send their products. To use the platform, merchants connect their different sales channels and import their products.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The math people do in a renting vs. buying situation, he noted, is hard to quantify, as is the degree to which people will feel uncomfortable wearing a pre-worn dress. Subscriptions now make up one-third of Rent the Runway’s retail revenue; one-time fashion rentals are the rest of its business.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2016

The New York Times published another story in a string of ones focused on breaking apart the nebulous concept of the manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) or list price that online retailers like Amazon prominently display with strikethroughs to highlight just what a great deal the price they sell at really is.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Arcesati notes, “The US has historically excelled at attracting top STEM [science, technology, engineering and math] talent from abroad, while China has struggled to do so. But it’s not unimaginable that, because of bad policies in the West that push Chinese talent away, China gains more ground.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Multiply that by around 43 and the dizzying math begins to emerge. A plan backed by the Illinois Retail Merchants Association places the burden on sales tax collection on the marketplaces, which will then settle up with the state Department of Revenue.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

But to understand how that thinking and those behaviors will influence the direction of the connected economy over the next decade, we need to start with a little math. Something very different can happen, though — something that math geeks (and I am not one of them) call a jump discontinuity. The line is chugging along.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

It was a big day for Target on the public markets as the big-box retailer rolled out its Q3 earnings reports with better than expected results and revised its expectations for the remainder of 2019 upwards. Same-store sales, the most watched metric in physical retail, grew by 4.5 Net income came in at $714 million, or $1.39

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MARCH 7, 2016

Almost no retailer has 100 million customers. Just looking at the math, most people on Pinterest haven’t shopped from any particular retailer. That, however, seems due to change, as buyable pins are soon coming to Pinterest’s website as well. “We We have over 100 million users on our platform.

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JULY 14, 2017

One of the casualties of the ongoing retail death spiral seems almost certain to be the retail workforce. Brick-and-mortar retail jobs may be declining, but that doesn’t mean jobs are disappearing. In fact, he notes, he believes eCommerce will have an opposite effect and create more retail jobs at better wages.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2017

While the fundamentals of math, science, English and social studies are still at the core of learning, the various technologies surrounding nearly every aspect of everyone’s lives is unavoidable. The robot is used in classrooms all around the world, whether it’s for art, English, history, math or science.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

Coupons were retail’s low-tech discounting solution in a world with Groupon, promo codes and Prime Day. In a retail reality where everything is always on sale, coupons were the clever method by which brick-and-mortar shops drew in customers with deals. This is the conventional wisdom.

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APRIL 21, 2020

You can do the math and see that dozens and dozens of smaller firms could have benefitted from the help. Assuming they’d be able to get federal aid, these same firms — spanning retail, tech, manufacturing and, yes, restaurants — would be able to stay open 97 days. The burger and shake giant later returned the funds.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

But Robbins predicts that by summer, the math is going to look a lot different in terms of the importance of that digital pipeline. But independents don’t have multi-tier operations, national name recognition or teams dedicated to dialing them into digital. Hence, DoorDash is their best option to access the digital consumer.

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