PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

American businesses had more tax minimizing options prior to the ruling, as retailers selling all across the country were taxed on their physical presences. The Massachusetts legislature has proposed a regulation that would obligate remote sellers above a certain sales volume to file, and Pennsylvania has already issued a similar demand.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

The new law will take effect in July and would require most retail outlets to accept physical currency. Massachusetts already requires businesses to accept cash. . Lawmakers in Philadelphia have passed a ban on cashless stores, making it the first major city in the U.S. to do so, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

It’s hard to find a retail resume that’s more impressive than Joyce Hampers’. After that, a private law practice followed by an appointment by William Weld (then governor of Massachusetts) as commissioner of revenue in 1975. She is right in the eye of the retail hurricane known as the coronavirus.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

That behavior can sometimes lead to challenges for the retailers and services that want to engineer customer loyalty and drive sales. Retailers must also make sure they’re properly verifying the payment and personal information of these new customers, without adding friction to the buying experience. About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2019

The funding also included participation from existing investors Synchrony, MassMutual Ventures, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and Wellington Management. financial institutions, as well as leading healthcare, insurance, technology and retail companies. Payfone serves six of the top 10 U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Business tax cuts: The corporate world had reason to cheer this week, when Trump’s pick for incoming treasury secretary, Steve Mnuchin, stated that the number one priority in terms of regulation is to roll back parts of Dodd-Frank. percent less according to the National Retail Federation. Elizabeth Warren. Questrom noted.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

and Massachusetts (Yucesoy v. that will see Uber pay up to $100 million in restitution to drivers in those states, but won’t require the company to recategorize and regulate its drivers as full-time employees. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced that the company had settled two court cases filed in California (O’Connor v.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

New Jersey is the second state to outlaw cashless stores after Massachusetts, which signed a similar bill into law back in 1978. Many people don’t have access to consumer credit and any effort by retail establishments to ban the use of cash is discriminatory towards those people,” New Jersey Assemblyman Paul Moriarty said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Building The (Retail) Use Cases. Said Allaire of the bid to get digital currencies more front and center: “Regulators are getting their arms around them … the digital asset market is now moving, more and more, into the mainstream of finance, FinTech payments and banking world.”. Of course, it’ll take some time to get there if we do.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

From retail to consumer goods, online and mobile sales are up significantly. The government has regulations for greenhouse gas emissions, and companies have carbon-neutral goals. For example, some states, such as California and Massachusetts, plan to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by the year 2035.

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PYMNTS

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.”. This serves as another signal among many that, in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2018

The state, according to Mashable , has contracted with Massachusetts-based company Voatz to make ballots available for troops stationed overseas via mobile devices. The more that light is shed on these use cases, the more blockchain can move beyond the traditional confines of simply working in conjunction with cryptocurrencies.

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PYMNTS

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.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

As noted in this space by Karen Webster, the ban on the ban – where, now, in New York, surcharges are allowed when merchants post total prices for transactions – shows the inefficiencies of regulation that supersede card networks’ own rules governing merchant activities.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It’s heavily regulated, only customers of a certain age can buy it – and the sale of it is governed by a three-tiered system wherein producers can only sell to wholesalers, who can only sell to retailers, who are the only ones allowed to sell to consumers. Delivering booze is a tough business. Merchant Partners .

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

Santander is a national bank based in Wilmington, Delaware, and operates a network of close to 700 retail branch offices in Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In this month’s feature story, PYMNTS examines the mPOS solutions powering Zinneken’s , a Belgian waffle bakery with several fixed locations and one Boston-based food truck, and Frosty Ice Cream , which claims to be Massachusetts’ oldest “mobile food and dessert catering company.” . Zinneken’s Serves Sweets With Speed .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

But based on how dynamic pricing has been used in retail, significant issues are likely to follow — if not tweaking of certain business models. Regulators, for instance, might end up taking a closer look at the use of pricing software in this sector.

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PYMNTS

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.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2018

But critics, notably Massachusetts Senator and CFPB architect Elizabeth Warren, have accused Mulvaney of shuttering the CFPB in all but name only, and doing so by defanging its ability to actually protect consumers. Physical Retail: Remember Geoffrey the Giraffe, or trolling the toy-filled aisles looking for the perfect bike?

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PYMNTS

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. It’s an experience that retailers are embracing and investing heavily in. Consider this.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

It is also observable on the micro-scale in the state of Massachusetts, where an attempt to get citizens to upgrade their drivers’ licenses to a verified “Real ID” by mid-2020 is generating very long lines and a lot of consumer friction in finding and producing the necessary documents.

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DECEMBER 19, 2017

Heavy-handed regulators. Seriously, sit back with a pocket flask of Pappy Van Winkle, smoke a cigar (or your combustible of choice if you live in Colorado, California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Main or Massachusetts) and enjoy the 2017 GonzoBanker Awards. Monty Python “I’m Not Dead … Yet” Award – Goes to physical retail.

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CB Insights

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. We discuss cashier-less checkout and other trends in our 2020 State of Retail Tech report.

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