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DECEMBER 6, 2018

According to Chain Store Age , the legislation requiring all brick-and-mortar retailers to accept cash was unanimously approved by the N.J. The bill, which is set to go before the full state Senate, excludes retailers inside airports from the cash requirement, as well as sales made online and by telephone or mail.

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

On October 4, the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) issued its final four recreational marijuana licenses to businesses, meaning legal marijuana will soon be available for purchase. Massachusetts joins a handful of states, including Colorado, Washington and Maine, that have taken steps to legalize recreational marijuana.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

The pandemic has led to massive changes for banks, which have had to radically adjust their operations despite generally being deemed essential businesses. One FI navigating pandemic-related challenges is Massachusetts-based Avidia Bank , which was founded in 2007 and currently has $1.9 Online innovations . billion in assets.

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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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JANUARY 7, 2021

They had to change the way they operate with new social distancing guidelines. From retail to consumer goods, online and mobile sales are up significantly. The omnichannel (online-offline) approach is essential, but digital has the opportunity to make the most significant impact. No one knew what to make of it.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Waltham, Massachusetts-based eCommerce solutions company Yottaa has made a big splash in the commerce space in the past few years. Its SaaS platform for accelerating eCommerce has been picked up by major retailers, including Puma, eBags, King Arthur Flour, Jo-Ann Fabric and Moosejaw, to name a few. Think back a few years ago.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

Wells Fargo: The beleaguered bank does not have many champions, and perhaps least among its fans is Massachusetts Sen. And physical retail continued to show across the board weakness – net sales and brick and mortar stores was down 5.0 percent less according to the National Retail Federation. Elizabeth Warren.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

SUNY Stony Brook is one of many schools who have teamed up with Amazon as the official book retailer for the school. Amazon operates 12 of them on college campuses across the U.S. Students are buying their learning materials online. Those pickup locations? and said it plans to add at least five more by next year.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Even as the new California benefits and the fees to cover them roll out, gig economy companies are facing scrutiny in other states that are mulling adopting similar workers’ rights rules, including Illinois, Massachusetts and New York. consumers living in large cities have shifted to ordering online from sit-down restaurants, and 16.3

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

Building The (Retail) Use Cases. Meanwhile, Visa said that crypto-banking platform operator Ternio had joined the payments giant’s Fast Track program as a cryptocurrency-focused enablement partner. As reported, the company also said bought $50 million of bitcoin to hold on its balance sheet.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

According to the FTC, that previous task force “reinvigorated the [FTC]’s hospital merger review program, and also sharpened the agency’s focus on merger enforcement in retail industries, particularly regarding matters involving food, beverages and supermarkets.”. Last year, for instance, the European Union (EU) slapped Google with a $5.1

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APRIL 18, 2018

Amazon , of course, with heft and scale, has entered the market in a big way: Late last year the eCommerce giant began signing contracts with apartment operators to install Amazon Lockers in those locations. The lockers, of course, are located in-store and offer a place for customers to pick up their online orders.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Cohen owns a national distribution network and deals with some of the nation’s biggest retailers. His aim is to change the way that the thousands of cases of retail goods are stored, handled and hauled. But it’s not just the retailers trying to cut costs who are embracing technology. In 2016, 5 percent of U.S.

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MAY 24, 2018

bankruptcy court, Massachusetts’ New England Confectionery Co. Necco had moved its operations to a large 50-acre site after leaving its longtime plant just outside Boston in 2003. With online grocery shopping, chewing gum and candy bars are out of sight and out of mind without, say, a checkout aisle. Necco) has founded a buyer.

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MAY 30, 2018

The industry is booming, and consumers who shop for beauty products have no shortage of brand options in stores and online. In a recent interview, Lord explained how NARS is working to carve out its niche by investing in data and personalization tools for both online and offline customers. It’s also seeing a similar shift in the U.S.,

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NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Amazon has opened an online store , establishing a presence on Chinese online shopping site Pinduoduo. The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) is among the nonprofits working to feed local communities this holiday season is the which provides food services to 190 towns as well as cities in the eastern Massachusetts region.

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APRIL 30, 2020

Massachusetts-based eTailer 1620 Workwear sells heavy-duty clothing for construction workers, carpenters, plumbers, EMTs and others who work outdoors or in demanding environments, and recently began deploying installment payment options from BNPL provider Afterpay. Customers are going to] have to finance everything they need,” he explained.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

Winding down the year, the most recent Trackers examined just what it takes to get all those Christmas presents ordered online to loved ones across borders. From using virtual reality to overhauling the retail industry to shifting trends in cross-border payments, here are some of the highlights from our 2016 Trackers.

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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. No easy online quoting tool.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

And, yes, this likely sounds blasphemous from someone who’s been beating the mobile payments drum since 2005, well before the iPhone and the App Store changed how consumers, retailers and payments players all use mobile devices. Paying for things will happen online for pickup in the store later. That just makes the point much stronger.

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JANUARY 23, 2017

It was my desire to start a conversation with him about what we, as innovators in payments, commerce, retail and financial services, can do to offer the working class — across all races and genders — their fair shot at the American Dream and the working classes of other countries a fair shot at their dreams, too.

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APRIL 17, 2018

15 of the top 20 operate in the Greater Bay Area. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. Operating Location: Philadelphia, PA. Operating Location: Menlo Park, CA. Brian Singerman started his career as a Software Engineer for 3D online virtual-world company, There Inc.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

Wipro’s investments also include two rounds to Axeda (since acquired by Massachusetts-based PTC), which similarly helps manage IoT products on a cloud-based platform, but for healthcare, insurance, and related applications. By market capitalization, the firm is considered India’s third largest IT company.).

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AUGUST 9, 2017

From Marriott opening its first modular hotel, to tech giants like Alphabet investing in modular housing, to Japanese retailer Muji launching prefab micro-homes, offsite construction methods are gaining traction. Startups working in construction tech have the potential to upend approaches to design, procurement, and operations.

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JULY 23, 2020

iHealth’s no-contact thermometers retail for less than $45, and Salesforce’s Workplace Command Center, which centralizes key real-time reopening metrics, starts at $5 per user per month as an add-on to existing Salesforce products. Finally, several of these solutions are relatively low in cost.

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APRIL 26, 2018

Furthermore, many of BAT’s AI products — like smart speakers, AI in retail, and autonomous vehicles — are similar to what FAMGA (Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple) is working on. But across auto, health, or retail, BAT is emerging as a formidable name in AI globally. Conclusion.

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