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JANUARY 15, 2020

CVS rolled out three HealthHUB concept stores in Texas close to the conclusion of 2018 and grew the offering to 50 locations in four markets by the end of last year. Dallas-Fort Worth, Boston, Ohio and North Carolina are among the next markets the pharmacy chain is targeting for the growth of HealthHUB in 2020.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Brigitte Unger, a professor at the Univerity of Utrecht in the Netherlands, is part of a fact-finding panel for Canada’s British Columbia on how to handle the increase of untraceable real estate purchases in Vancouver that are tied to crime syndicates and market abuse. Money laundering through real estate is about $1.6 As for the U.K.,

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AUGUST 5, 2019

The services are competing in a market that could reach 829 million smartphones users by 2022, up from half a billion today, per estimates from Cisco Systems Inc. In addition, India’s video-streaming market could reach 10 times that size by the time 2023 rolls around, per a Boston Consulting Group report in 2018.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

The airline has also been courting corporate travelers in big markets like New York, Boston and Seattle. Economy sales for Delta in 2018 made up almost 50 percent of revenue, which is down from 63 percent in 2012. . The airline’s revenue from premium seats is now growing faster than coach-class sales.

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MARCH 27, 2019

In a press release , MineralTree said the investment round was led by Great Hill Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm. MineralTree said proceeds from the round will be used to fund growth and expand its opportunity in accounts payable (AP) automation for middle-market businesses. 406 Ventures and Eight Roads Ventures.

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JUNE 6, 2019

Skirting Cash Shortages at Boston Pride. Boston’s pride celebration is one of the season’s biggest events for Mandy Roberge, the owner and artist behind Wicked Good Henna. The 2018 Boston Pride parade reportedly saw more than 750,000 spectators and over 55,000 marchers.

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JUNE 5, 2019

While some markets may be seeing relatively slower adoption of mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) than others, there’s no denying that the overall popularity of mobile and contactless payments are growing fast among consumers. In markets like the U.S., percent between 2017 and 2026. Deep Dive: The State of mPOS in North America.

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JULY 31, 2019

WeWork rebranded to The We Company earlier this year to reflect its expansion beyond the co-working market. Its junk-rated bonds, which were priced in 2018 and are due in 2025, were at $93.50, which is down from $99.63 (Uber currently holds the top spot with its $8.2 billion IPO earlier this year.) earlier in May.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

According to previous reports, Boston, Dallas-Fort Worth, North Carolina, and Ohio are among the next markets the pharmacy chain is targeting for the growth of HealthHUB in 2020. And news surfaced last year that Walmart was opening a health clinic in Georgia with a deeper move into the market for primary and mental healthcare.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

Investors were eager to see if the brand’s efforts to streamline its special offerings, and efforts for holiday 2018, had brewed up a merrier picture. There were areas of investor concern, though, particularly the slowing growth in the Chinese market. By the numbers, Starbucks delivered. Earnings came in at $.68 As of Tuesday (Jan.

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

We are always looking for new ways to enhance the shopping experience and bring even more value to our customers,” Ed Macri, chief product and marketing officer for Wayfair, said in a press release. The Boston-based company generated $5.7 billion in net revenue for the 12 months that ended June 30, 2018.

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MAY 1, 2018

Amazon Expands Boston Tech Hub; Adds 2,000 New Tech Roles. Growth from markets that do not include major cities fueled Grubhub’s revenue growth in the first quarter of 2018, an increase that beat analyst expectations. Regulators in the U.S. are considering the regulation of digital tokens outside bitcoin.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

Wayfair , for instance, opened a store at the Natick Mall in suburban Boston, where consumers can experience products firsthand before making a purchase, after debuting a pop-up shop there last year. The store itself is on the shopping center’s first floor near Wegmans , which itself opened its first mall store in 2018.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Brick-and-mortar retail oftentimes gets a bad rap in 2018. retail and apparel markets are nearing recession levels, tripling in the past six years. Lewis said the brand mostly stands by its profit-first mentality around growth and expansion — though, of late, they’ve pursued the market more aggressively.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

In 2018, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf® brought mobile order-ahead to its app. The companies worked to offer the collaboration is in seven cities — New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and Washington, DC, per a November report. Only 36 percent of women, however had the same order frequency.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

Noto will continue in his role as CEO which he has held for three years since arriving from Twitter in 2018, where he was COO, and prior to that the NFL, where he served as CFO. The FinTech IPO Market.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

But the fast-food giant is playing quick catch-up with its in-store tech, mobile ordering and delivery initiatives — and is doing so by taking a page out of Snapchat’s playbook by blending unattended retail with marketing. Kenmore Square, Boston will activate what it calls a “customized digital Big Mac ATM.” That’s right.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Worldwide legal cannabis products represented a $55 billion market in 2018, and most analysts estimate that it will have nearly tripled to reach $147 billion by 2025. the domestic market for legal cannabis in 2018 was $9.1 Here in the U.S., By 2025, estimates put it in the $15 billion range.

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AUGUST 3, 2018

That kind of growth is slated to continue, with researchers predicting that by 2023, the volume of mPOS transactions will increase threefold over an estimated 28 billion in 2018. Meanwhile, in the United States, mPOS is making its presence known among commuters in the Boston area. Adopting mPOS for a Smoother Commute.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

According to McKinsey , if you take the approximate value of all the sleep swag on the market as of 2018 –think luxury pajamas , high-end bed linens , cuddling robots , DTC mattresses and odd gadgets – it generates somewhere between $30 billion and $45 billion annually in revenue worldwide. Boston Med has offered Sleepio since 2016.

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DECEMBER 18, 2019

percent it declined in 2018 and the 0.7 percent it fell in 2017 according to IWSR, an industry tracker for the drinks market. . billion in sales between October 2018 and October 2019 — a roughly 200 percent jump — and kicked off something of a spiked seltzer follow-on craze. In 2019 alcohol consumption in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

That mindset “is becoming increasingly necessary if retailers want to remain competitive in the market,” the index found. Pharmacy operator CVS , for example, experimented with a program in Boston in which shoppers received free delivery on prescriptions and eCommerce purchases as well as other perks.

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JULY 25, 2018

CFO Adam DeWitt stated new markets, year to date, have reached a count of 70. DeWitt stated on the call that LevelUp, a seven-year-old firm based in Boston, serves 200 regional and national brands, with a point-of-sale (POS) approach that seeks to replicate each brand’s experience online.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. This newfound friction is the result of the City of Boston passing a bill that bans plastic bags and gives merchants the right to charge for ones made of paper. Because when they do, consumers can get hurt.

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AUGUST 24, 2019

Indeed, the general sports world – and the NFL, of course, is included in that in a big way – is also adapting to the increasing popularity of online sports betting , with 10 states passing rules regulating the activity in 2018 after the Supreme Court ruled in favor. For the 2019 NFL season – PYMNTS is based in Boston, so Go Pats! –

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

PG&E faces $30 billion in damages tied to wildfires across 2017 and 2018. billion annually if it renegotiates to the now-lower market rates. The publication said that late payments have been cited by companies ranging from Bechtel to Boston Consulting Group.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

Which is why Munich-based Freeletics is trying to disrupt the fitness market with a customizable training app that requires no equipment. Sports teams, including the San Francisco 49ers and the Boston Celtics, also invested. “We According to some estimates, Americans on the whole waste $1.8

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JANUARY 30, 2019

At the Empire Stores complex in Brooklyn, the Time Out Market New York is set to open in 2019. New York’s dell’anima restaurant, in one case, is making the move from a Greenwich Village location to a space in the Gotham West Market. As it stands, the chain has locations in cities such as Boston, New York and Los Angeles, among others.

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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. which sells fitness supplements and runs high-end fitness centers on Boston’s tony Boylston Street and near the Patriots’ Gillette Stadium.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Beyond the Big Apple, which is the brand’s biggest market , Allbirds has its eyes on other U.S. cities, such as Boston and Los Angeles, for additional brick-and-mortar locations. For Allbirds, a brick-and-mortar presence can provide a bit of a marketing boost. In Other Brick-And-Mortar News.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2017

In last year’s announcement of the country’s switch to cashless, Modi vowed to short circuit the vagaries of a cash-based economy that were — and still are, in some cases — rife with black market activities like counterfeiting. First, awareness is the key to adoption, and some encouraging statistics come from a few data points.

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JULY 21, 2018

When planning a large-scale marketing push or publicity stunt, it can be easy to overlook the fact that getting attention is hard, and getting positive attention is even harder. And the summer of 2018 has already featured two flashy mass-market promotions that aimed for it, missed and got to watch things go spectacularly awry.

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MAY 30, 2017

Flashfood bears a close resemblance to Boston, Mass. non-profit grocer Daily Table, which stocks healthy and convenient foods at an affordable price by sourcing them from a large network of growers, markets and manufacturers. By 2018, Instacart plans to offer service to 80 percent of American households.

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JULY 30, 2019

The company has also expanded Starbucks Delivers with the help of Uber Eats, which is in more than 2,700 stores in 11 markets. Between 2016 and 2018, for instance, the volume of orders placed through mobile apps grew by 130 percent, according to PYMNTS’ Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We then distribute their products to markets where sharing makes sense. Although he had prior experience in sales and marketing, he needed both engineering expertise and investment to get his idea off the ground. The same model applies in other markets. 2016, Oomf launched its first shareable product in multiple test markets.

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APRIL 30, 2018

The sandwich chain will be redirecting its focus to international expansion even as it loses market share in the U.S. Store count isn’t everything,” CEO Suzanne Greco told The Boston Globe. We’re focused now on strengthening market share.”. Subway has 44,000 locations worldwide, all of them independently owned.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

This year’s HubSpot Inbound conference was held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center September 25-28. We are still reeling from all of the excitement and wanted to give you a quick recap of the conference and key takeaways for your marketing programs. HubSpot is launching a new free conversations tool in 2018.

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