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FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Maxx, Marshalls and Home Goods — was one of the few retailers coming out of this earnings season with something to crow about. Same store sales — an all important retail metric — almost doubled analyst forecasts and clocked in at 5 percent. TJX — the owner of the discount department chains T.J. TJX posted a 6.4

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. 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.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2016

True Fit , the Boston-based startup that helps connect customers with shoes and apparel that fits them really, really well, recently announced a $25 million investment from Intel Capital that it will use to expand its business, according to a report from TechCrunch. 2015 that it used for expansion. There’s nowhere to go but up.”.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In the future, Grubhub said it will provide delivery and online ordering for KFC and Taco Bell. In 2017, it gobbled up at least three different food delivery competitors: Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and, most recently, Yelp’s Eat24. The partnership with Yum!, That deal closed on Oct.

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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

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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. Doubling Down On Tech.

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MAY 24, 2018

McDonald’s increased sales in 2015 when it began selling breakfast items all day. However, the fast food giant is well behind other global competitors, such as Starbucks and Taco Bell , when it comes to ordering online and using digital tools to enhance the consumers’ experience. same-store sales were down 1.3 percent year on year.

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AUGUST 16, 2019

As of the first day of August 1994 more people had walked on the surface of the moon than had bought things online, because online shopping did not yet exist. s two resident retail superpowers’ race for the consumer’s whole paycheck this week. She also forecasts headline retail sales to rise by 0.4 percent.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Germany- and Boston-based Spreadshirt uses data, analytics and even social media information to build a product and spread news among communities while printing more than 3.6 The startup concept was to create and activate an online shop system to sell and share ideas,” said Smoter. million items last year. Greensburg, Penn.;

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MAY 20, 2016

What followed over the next four decades was the evolution of a once familiar retail fixture – the carhop – who first walked, and then later roller skated their way into creating a convenient way of serving the customer. Retailers are having to find new ways of fulfilling shoppers’ orders.”. Pulling Up To Convenience .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

In the Q4 2015 Index, we reported that sporting goods had omnichannel the most together of any vertical, leading the way with the highest score in the Index, while Grocery/Pharma finished with the worst score. Scores for most merchants increased from Q2 2015 to Q4 2015 before stagnating in Q1 2016. That hasn’t changed. .

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

fans traveling to Boston for the start of the World Series will want to pack — and possibly purchase for the first time — sweaters, as this week will be an excellent opportunity to enjoy New England’s crisp fall weather. That is up from just 7 percent in 2015 — a 270 percent increase. locations at its peak.

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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 in August 2015. Wayfair’s net revenue hit $960.8 million, up 28.6

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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. We’ve also seen a shift to digital for retail purchases of 3.4

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AUGUST 16, 2016

So, how did a “team of geeks” with “zero experience” in the fashion or retail industries go on to become the second fastest-growing retail company in the U.S. Since its founding, Adore Me has grown into a business that saw $43 million in sales in 2015 alone, 6.5 million in funding. million in funding.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

In a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston survey of mobile banking and payment services released in August, roughly three-fourths of about 600 community banks and credit unions in five Federal Reserve districts that were polled were offering some kind of mobile service. Financial Institutions,” August 2015. Check ordering.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

In a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston survey of mobile banking and payment services released in August, roughly three-fourths of about 600 community banks and credit unions in five Federal Reserve districts that were polled were offering some kind of mobile service. Financial Institutions,” August 2015. Check ordering.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

AI and bot technology : Bursting out of the gate in 2015/16, Banks have begun a mad dash towards AI and other bot technologies. This is just a taste of what we’ll have in store at the 10 th annual Innovation and Insight Day on April 4 th in Boston.

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JANUARY 15, 2018

In fact, we’re seeing it happen in a variety of retail, banking and broader commerce pilots and prototypes today. In 2015, these two researchers went back into the lab to dive deeper. By ordering ahead using their phones, customers are simply applying their online shopping behavior to a new, and very habituated, use case.

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Javelin Strategy & Research

JUNE 21, 2014

I had the pleasure of speaking at NextBankUSA in Boston the other week on the Future of Payments, as I see them. Amazon has been tinkering away with relentlessly removing friction from not just payments, but the entire retail experience. The retail experience does. I used the “Fastlane” analogy for US retail at NextBank.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

The Top 10 List retired with David Letterman in May of 2015. In July, Grubhub announced it would be buying up LevelUp for $390 million in cash to expedite integration with restaurants and “create a seamless diner experience in-app, online and in-store,” said the 423,000 daily average grubs, up 35 percent year over year.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 30, 2015

HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Online auto insurance comparison site. Online & mobile payment solutions in Southeast Asia. Online real estate investment platform. Tags: Investing, trading, Route 66 Ventures (investor), FinovateSpring presenter (May 12/13, 2015). Digital currency provider. Total raised: $76 million.

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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. As of today, that one-room idea has grown to $6.6

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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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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Portfolio outlooks, recommendation.Provide retail and advisory users the insight they need with Polly Portfolio. If you have a large retail investor base, and no resources to interact with them, then perhaps there some value? ^SR. Svyatoslav Ostrovsky (Head of Retail Digital Business). Retail for a piece.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2016

Although the traditional retail industry in the U.S. If we break down “essential items” into three categories — food, clothing and shelter — we’re looking at a trio of verticals wherein each one has still had to weather the storm of the current retail climate in its own way. Sort of, but also — not exactly.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Its declaration that apps are “so 2015” cites as evidence that it took only six months for 34,000 bot developers to emerge, compared to the 12 months it took 12,500 app developers to do the same. This year, 8 billion Red Envelopes were sent within the WeChat ecosystem over an eight-day period — eight times as many as were sent in 2015.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

As of 2015, premium foods accounted for $14.5 And while most might despair at the knowledge that it is almost impossible to know with certainty if that expensive dog food is actually worth the cost, Ollie Co-Founder Gabby Slome responded by creating her own premium dog food firm online to offer preservative-free, fresh and homemade dog food.

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JULY 20, 2017

Sites like eBay, Etsy, Alibaba and lesser-known online marketplaces would see an influx of Amazon “refugees,” and consumers would likely crown a new eCommerce King before long. According to one Hansa listing that survived the initial purge of fentanyl listings, a single gram of “China White Synthetic Heroin Fentanyl” retailed for $122.35.

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MARCH 22, 2016

The Guardian published an open letter from Liverpool (and Boston Red Sox) owner John Henry detailing the club’s change of heart. ” a central part of their chants in the stands and posts online, it’s safe to say that the scales have tipped too far in one direction.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

Consumer spending at restaurants and other food vendors was at an inflation-adjusted annual rate of $605B in 2017, up 4% from $584B in 2015. GET THE 54-PAGE RETAIL TRENDS REPORT. One popular explanation for this is that millennials are simply shopping less in physical locations in general, preferring to do their shopping online.

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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. Founded: 2015. Founded: 2015.

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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. via Beta Boston. Meanwhile, it floated other plans, like starting a print catalogue and delivering for local retailers. via MDDI Online.

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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. A Google search directed me to an online merchant that sent them to me (from Italy) four days later. Today, despite the story the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The modern-day department store, the intermediary that’s aggregated brands and buyers in a single physical location for more than 160 years, and the modern-day shopping mall, which has done the same for the last six decades, has steadily lost foot traffic, sales and profits to online competitors since about 2010.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The modern-day department store, the intermediary that’s aggregated brands and buyers in a single physical location for more than 160 years, and the modern-day shopping mall, which has done the same for the last six decades, has steadily lost foot traffic, sales and profits to online competitors since about 2010.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

2015 Second Update (12/3/2015). 2015 First Update (8/15/2015). Doorman says it will no longer accept incoming shipments after September 29th and that those who use their Doorman address for online shipments should update their information. “We 2017 Third Update (10/31/17). 2017 Second Update (6/9/17).

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