PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

With all due respect and apologies, a triple whammy was served up in Boston today: Tom Brady is leaving the New England Patriots, the coronavirus has shuttered bars on St. But while Brady won’t win any more titles for New England, his branding story is just getting started. The strength of the person is the strength of the brand.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

But those concerns haven’t stopped consumers from using voice to access these new experiences, because they trust the primary enabler of those voice-enabled purchasing experiences – today that’s Amazon – as well as the underlying payment methods they use to make those purchases, which are network-branded credit and debit cards.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then. Additionally, many of these physical retailers have lost the cache they once had as new direct-to-consumer brands with a hyper-focus on specific products have taken off.

Retail 78

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The percentage of sales lost by those physical store franchises can be seen not only in the pretty charts and graphs that we produce and share on a regular basis but the ongoing drumbeat of the national and regional store closings for those brands that can no longer keep up. And just like every other industry, there’s concentration.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Thinking that way misses a much bigger point: That is, looking at an “average” percent of sales done in a physical store is about as accurate as following the Farmer’s Almanac ‘s prediction of the average amount of snowfall in Boston each winter by examining how furry the caterpillars are. Take books, for example. Then, there’s cars.

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Payments Online Mobile Retail 100

PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. In 2004 in the U.S., There’s no question that the world’s weather patterns are undergoing a massive change.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Unity Software, a software platform aimed at video-game developers, pursued a bidding-based approach to its IPO in September 2020, similar to the process used by Google when the search giant went public in 2004. Boston Consulting Group predicts, however, that only a few investment banks will ever again be able to grow to that kind of size.

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