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MAY 1, 2020

But what about the entrepreneurs who are still hanging onto their dreams of starting a retail business? Quite the contrary,” says Bob Brennan, chairman of the National Expansion Council and one of the directors of a nonprofit organization called Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) based in Boston, Massachusetts. “I

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2018

It’s a tall order for a Boston-based furniture company – but Wayfair has always thought big, even when it was very, very small. So small, in fact, that when it first started in 2002, the entire operation fit easily into the spare bedroom of Co-founder Steve Conine’s Boston home.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When asked, fear of crowds surfaced as consumers’ primary reason for preferring to carry on with digital-first experiences when it comes to shopping for groceries (57 percent), purchasing retail products (52 percent) and even ordering food from restaurants (45 percent). The SMB Pinch. between March 1 and Sept.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

June brings colorful, high-energy LGBTQ Pride Month celebrations to cities across the nation. Skirting Cash Shortages at Boston Pride. Boston’s pride celebration is one of the season’s biggest events for Mandy Roberge, the owner and artist behind Wicked Good Henna.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Looks like retail sales are back on the street. With direct marketing hit by robocall abuse and the National Do Not Call Registry , direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands and other not-so-usual suspects are looking into and in some cases reinstating door-to-door sales. The iconic door-to-door brand is of course Avon.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In a twist on contemporary retail trends toward online channels, consumers still largely prefer to return in-store. One logistics technology startup is working to solve the problem of physical returns for digital retailers. One logistics technology startup is working to solve the problem of physical returns for digital retailers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

In a recent trend, eCommerce mattress brands have been moving into the world of brick-and-mortar retail by opening their own stores and pop-up shops to help let customers test-drive their products in real life. 22) before reportedly extending the service into Boston and New York, among other cities. now support Apple Pay.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Producers (or importers) sell to distributors, distributors sell to retailers and retailers sell to customers. Only retailers can sell to customers, and only distributors can buy from producers (except in the state of Washington). Drizly also faces an increasingly competitive marketplace than when it launched in 2012.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

For those who operate restaurants or simply enjoy them, 2020 has been a nightmare. That’s why the always resourceful restaurant sector went all-in on mobile order-ahead (MOA) and kept the nation fed while industry players looked for their next move. cities, including Boston, Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Within the next week or so, CVS ’s planned acquisition of Aetna is expected to close, pairing the nation’s largest pharmacy chain and the nation’s fifth-largest health insurer under a single banner. Those cost savings, he noted, will come by synergies that will allow corporate expenses and operational costs to be lowered.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Introduced in 2014 alongside a handful of other experimental services, Uber Eats operates worldwide in 29 countries. And Grubhub has been in expansion mode , gobbling up Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and Yelp’s Eat24 in 2017. Manhattan-based Green Summit Group, for example, operates nine restaurants out of one kitchen.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The fee-free card is Goldman Sachs’ latest inroad into the retail consumer business after establishing its online Marcus brand in 2016, which makes unsecured personal loans. From an operational and risk perspective, we’ve handled the inflows smoothly, and without comprising our credit underwriting standards.”. India, the U.K.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. percent of all retail sales. consumers — 47.2 Share of U.S.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

And experts are warning that given the spike in cases nationwide, we should expect to see that national death toll to double over the next 10 days to reach 4,000 daily. The retailer has made the Walmart app more Rx-friendly, opening express lanes in stores to reduce the amount of time people spend waiting in lines for refills.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

In fact, in its founding days back in 2002, Wayfair fit comfortably in the spare bedroom of Conine’s Boston-area home. As of now, the firm is looking to branch out from its Copley Place headquarters in downtown Boston and into a neighboring building that reportedly has enough space to accommodate it.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. However, this isn’t the whole story.

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Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 11, 2014

According to a 2012 Boston College Center for Retirement Research study , 63% of American males (why only males I do not know) participated exclusively in defined contribution (DC) retirement plans in 2007, up from 47% in 1992. I think, as a nation, we will need lots of help managing our money. Probably not.

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MyBankTracker

MAY 7, 2021

The company’s core product offerings revolve around insurance and operates as a subsidiary of a Canadian-based company called Manulife. John Hancock, also known as The John Hancock Life Insurance Company, was founded in 1862 with operations based mainly in Boston, Massachusetts. Background on John Hancock.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

Boston-based company Cybric is a relative newcomer on the cybersecurity scene, but it’s re-envisioning how developers test the security of their applications. “If What Cybric’s Continuous Security-as-a-Service platform does is to merge development, security and operations into one process — DevSecOps, if you will. “We

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JUNE 1, 2020

Not surprisingly, to make consumers more comfortable shopping and checking out in their stores, retailers have rushed to enable a “ contactless ” payment experience. One of the best things that happened last week was the reopening of hair salons in Boston. And that will become this salon’s standard operating procedure going forward.

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AUGUST 5, 2016

And Boston-based D rizly ’s news yesterday of its $15 million in Series B funding was a noteworthy milestone, for sure. . Most local liquor store retailers don’t have websites, which means that they don’t have online product catalogues for starters. This round will help us really drive awareness.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 22, 2016

Retail Bank, Citibank, New York, NY. Chi Chi Wu, Staff Attorney, National Consumer Law Center, Boston, MA. Hughes, Senior Vice President and Director of Mortgage and Retail Lending, First Federal Savings Bank of Twin Falls, Twin Falls, IA. Jacksonville, FL. William Howle, Head of U.S.

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

15 of the top 20 operate in the Greater Bay Area. He received his MBA in 1993 from UT Austin before joining Credit Suisse First Boston as an Equity Research Analyst, where he focused on computer hardware and software. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. BILL GURLEY.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2018

The game will be the main event for most people, particularly for fans in Boston and Philadelphia, as both cities are known for being ever so slightly fanatical about their sports teams. [GO billion chicken wings Americans are expected to eat this weekend according to the (honest to goodness) National Chicken Council. Winner: Pizza

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

In 2017, the National Restaurant Association reported annual sales of $799B — close to 48% of the total amount that Americans spent on food. In the past decade, restaurant and bar purchases have grown at twice the rate of general retail spending. Vegan fast casual: By Chloe (NYC, Boston, LA, Providence, London).

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis. Some interesting finalists would be: M&T and People’s United Old National and First Midwest Webster and Sterling Columbia Bank and Umpqua. Congrats on a brave move and national recognition Jim!

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

They provide physical or virtual platforms (like a shopping mall) for multiple groups (like retailers and shoppers) to get together. Put yourselves in the shoes of the Revolution Money team back in 2007, pitching its platform to retailers and consumers. Why New Mobile and IoT Operating Systems Will Mainly Fizzle.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Indeed, co-founder Alejandro Resnik, the CEO, told the WSJ in 2015 that it was looking to raise a “monster round” of $300 million at a $2 billion valuation to fuel its national expansion. Australian music streaming company Guvera has reportedly stopped operating, with its co-founder and biggest financial backer walking away from the project.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Retail/Consumer Goods. From their humble, skunkworks-style origins in Palo Alto to their current offices in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Seattle, and Boston, they’ve scaled up to attack new projects but keep the same focus on experimentation and innovation that helped them build the first Kindle. This post is broken up into sections.

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CB Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

Asimov predicted the exploding population would cause US cities like Boston and New York to converge along the coast into combined super-urban bodies, while suburban communities would have to expand downwards, building subterranean homes. Housing supply is dire nationally, with the US reportedly staring down a housing shortage of 7.3M

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

HQ: Boston, MA. Presenter Profile: How they describe themselves: AI Foundry uses AI and user-guided machine learning to transform enterprise operations by integrating information, people and processes. HQ: Boston, MA. Press & Sales: Colby Ross, colby@projectfinance.io , 603-767-2089. Website: projectfinance.io.

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CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

Companies will have to look to guidelines from local and national authorities for each office location. Operating rooms in hospitals use filters that have the highest Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value (MERV) rating, a 16-point rating system for HVAC systems that accounts for the size and amount of particulates that are able to pass through.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

We are confident that to truly have the long-term impact we want to make, we need to focus on finding an acquirer with an existing national fresh food supply chain who can carry forward the Juicero mission. Title: My Mobile AR Start-Up Died So Yours Doesn’t Have To. Product: Blin.gy App. Product: Auctionata Paddle8 AG. Product: Quidsi.

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