PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2018

Everyone remembers the snowpocalypse that wasn’t in March 2014, when weathermen warned New Yorkers to prepare for a winter storm straight out of the movie The Day After Tomorrow only to have that end-of-the-world weather turn out to be seven inches of gently falling snow. The Expected Costs.

Boston 101

Boston Florida New York South Carolina 101

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

As PYMNTS is Boston-based, the company is, of course, excited to see Tom Brady take a shot at that sixth Super Bowl ring. million, and $1 million more than the cost to air a commercial during the 2014 Super Bowl. The two brands first started working together in 2015. million for 30 seconds of airtime. Snack Time. per person.

Boston 150

Boston Retail Branding Payments 150

PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2018

Monica + Andy, which launched in 2014, started out with their “Cuddle Box” product: a hand-wrapped gift box that includes an organic blanket (in cotton or muslin) and a range of organic newborn essentials. The brand has expanded in both its digital and physical presence, boasting 250 percent year-over-year growth.

Boston 101

Boston Branding Innovation Online 101

PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

Secrecy is a funny thing for brands. It keeps consumers interested, because a consumer that is always guessing about the next product release is, by necessity, always thinking about the brand. Open since 2014, it is one of two northern California hubs — the other being located about an hour up the road in San Francisco.

Retail 100

Retail San Francisco California Minneapolis 100

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The concept comes with interactive walls and follows similar moves by sporting or other fashion brands. Lancome, as it stands, is one of the largest brands of L’Oreal, the French cosmetics group. And groups such as LVMH are also investing in retail ventures. Beauty companies are also acquiring other brands.

Branding 132

Branding Retail New York Miami 132

PYMNTS

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

Apple 227

Apple Study Innovation Survey 227

PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

The new app is powered by LevelUp , a mobile payments platform created by Boston startup SCVNGR and the force behind PYMNTS’ mobile order-ahead tracker. The healthy fast-casual restaurant launched a custom mobile payment and loyalty app with LevelUp in early 2014 to cater to its active, on-the-go customers.

social media 109

social media Mobile Boston Payments 109

PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2017

The Boston-based furniture and home goods retailers saw it stock price shoot up 20 percent to an all time high as earnings reports clocked in stronger than expected. Net revenue from direct retail sales through Wayfair’s websites up 32.1 Wayfair, went public in late 2014 and has 5,700 employees. million, up 28.6

Retail 100

Retail Boston America Management 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I hosted a digital discussion last week with an executive from Sift with more than 15 years of experience building trust and safety organizations for some of the biggest digital brands in the world – including Google , Facebook and Square. percent of all retail sales to 6.4 percent of retail sales and 50 percent of all eCommerce sales.

Cards 169

Cards Course Study New York 169

PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2016

Hey brand, want a better way to engage with your customer? And Messenger and Marcus’ big bet is that its chatbots will provide a mechanism for brands to strike up those conversations with their community faster, cheaper and as well – if not better – than a live person can do now. In 2014, Facebook began to do something about it.

Google 100

Google Mobile Branding Apple 100

Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. s entry into the payments business with Apple Pay. Ed Bachelder, payments consultant.

Mobile 105

Mobile Community Bank Community Technology 105

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.

Retail 59

Retail Trends Technology Branding 59

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

I, Shopper, take thee, Online Retailer, to be my faithful partner in commerce. Today, fewer than a third say that membership in loyalty programs drives their choice of retailer. Today, fewer than a third say that membership in loyalty programs drives their choice of retailer. How very unlikely these days. Who’da thunk it?

Retail 90

Retail Payments Online Mobile 90

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The move, according to CVS CEO Larry Merlo, will change the face of the CVS brand going forward, as it moves to take a more active and avid approach to influencing better health outcomes while at the same time reducing healthcare costs across the board. Merlos called out CVS’s 2014 $2.1

Apple 131

Apple United States Boston Branding 131

PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

Uber does not publish user stats, but I saw a story that quoted 8 million user accounts (as of July 2014), without being specific as to whether that was only U.S. WeChat users can play games (and they apparently play a lot of them – accounting for $420 million in revenue in 2014), buy tickets and book and pay for taxi rides.

Branding 100

Branding Payments Los Angeles Innovation 100

CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

” For example, the rise of “athleisure” brands like Lululemon and Athleta has been attributed to millennials’ search for clothing options that let them easily transition from the yoga studio to the office. Savvy marketers at struggling cereal brands may be able to reverse their fortunes with the millennial set.

Millennials 78

Millennials Industry Trends Branding 78

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

have a retail crisis — or a small business crisis? Which is why “fixing” retail must include giving SMB merchants the tools they need to compete in the very dynamic environment that now defines Retail U.S.A. After a high of 614,024 SMB openings in 2014, the Census reported that only 452,835 firms were started in the U.S.

Retail 134

Retail Innovation Maine Community 134

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The media has declared chatbots the digital version of the little black dress: a technology staple that every brand must now have and every payment type must now commerce-enable. But the most effective strategy for getting credentials registered was the launch in 2014 of its digital P2P scheme: Red Envelopes.

Payments 100

Payments Mobile Apple Google 100

PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

What we will say is that fun times with family, the dazzling display of fireworks and the perfunctory cookouts and beach time, truly and totally make this upcoming weekend one very big sizzle wrapped around what appears to be in Boston, at least, abundant doses of sunshine. Seriously a Sizzle! Circuit of Appeals in New York.

New York 100

New York Lending Cards Retail 100

CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Goldman Sachs is reportedly preparing to launch a digital wealth product, potentially in the form of a robo-advisor, under the Marcus brand, which has previously focused on high interest savings accounts and personal loans. The problem, historically, has been that most of these reports go unread.

Management 78

Management Capital Company Marketing 78

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. Department stores used to dominate retail , and shopping was always done in a physical store. I saved the best for last — Apple and Apple Pay.

Google 148

Google Apple Retail Millennials 148

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

In 2014, the Grand Bazaar was named the world’s No. Fewer buyers means that brands no longer find those outlets useful for distribution. The escalation of this now seven-year-old death spiral in just the last two years — from May 2015 to June 2017 — has wiped out $230 billion in market value off the top 20 traditional retailers.

Online 128

Online Google Branding Retail 128

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

In 2014, the Grand Bazaar was named the world’s No. Fewer buyers means that brands no longer find those outlets useful for distribution. The escalation of this now seven-year-old death spiral in just the last two years — from May 2015 to June 2017 — has wiped out $230 billion in market value off the top 20 traditional retailers.

Online 112

Online Google Branding Retail 112