PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

A streaming service could aid in leveling the playing field with the eCommerce retailer. 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.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Since we would hate for anyone to go into the end of 2018 behind the eight ball, we decided to pay tribute to both a great bit and a great deal of news with our own top 10 list of the biggest news of summer 2018. It is not an exaggeration to say that 2018 has been the summer of movie subscription service MoviePass ’ discontent.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Retailers are aiming to help consumers manage chronic diseases as well as their overall health and wellness through new brick-and-mortar experiences. Through HealthHUBs, consumers are at the center of an unmatched retail health experience. CVS Health, however, is not the only retailer to bolster its health offerings.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2020

With CVS Health on the path to meeting its goal of revamping more than 1,000 of its stores, the health retailer is reportedly seeing positive early results. 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.

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PYMNTS

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. Tech giant Apple is also upping its payments game.

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PYMNTS

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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Cisco

MAY 29, 2019

In retail banking, it’s clear customer experience matters, and the stakes have never been higher. And it’s not just about happy customers… Boston Consulting Group data indicates personalizing customer journeys can lead to a 10-30% increase in revenue. Opportunity #1: When opening a new account. According to the J.D.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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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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Cisco

MAY 29, 2019

In retail banking, it’s clear customer experience matters, and the stakes have never been higher. And it’s not just about happy customers… Boston Consulting Group data indicates personalizing customer journeys can lead to a 10-30% increase in revenue. Opportunity #1: When opening a new account. According to the J.D.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Put on a Retail Happy Face. Yup, physical retail is doing just fine — despite all the talk of doom and gloom. Yet, according to Fung Global Retail & Technology, 6,985 stores closed in 2017 , up 229 percent from 2016, and well above the number of stores which closed in the year that started physical retail’s death spiral: 2008.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

When Sephora announced the launch of a new 2,000-square-foot concept store in Boston last year , it unveiled a marriage of brick-and-mortar and digital: The store allowed customers the ability to order products in-store from the Sephora website, and it announced same-day pickup through its Sephora app, too.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2018

Boston and the areas surrounding New York didn’t get quite as lucky and were actually buried under more than a foot of snow, but the damage was done. Boston, in its ongoing quest to suffer more than any other American city in the winter, didn’t just have more than a foot of snow and more than 50-mile-an-hour winds. The Expected Costs.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

who each week walk into one of those physical stores, in addition to the 100 million who are said to shop one of the retailer’s online channels. 3 post position, displacing Apple, at roughly 4 percent of retail sales. That retailer is, of course, Amazon. percent of consumer retail spending in the U.S. Housing (18.5

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

While the store is a first for Nike, it’s part of a bigger trend in retail — product and inventory localization. how retailers can survive (and thrive) this holiday season. Learn about the technologies, innovations, and strategies that retailers can leverage during the holidays. Major retailers and brands go local.

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PYMNTS

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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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. According to data from the National Retail Federation (NRF), stores will bring in around $14.8 And retailers are ready, whether you need food, team jerseys, decorations or a new TV.”. Snack Time. per person.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. The idea took off, with “growth (looking) like a steady exponential curve, aided by word of mouth and social media marketing,” according to the BI account. Presto Eats is a good example of that.

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PYMNTS

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. But surcharging as a topic of conversation in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

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. Mobile-Order Ahead.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. The idea took off, with “growth (looking) like a steady exponential curve, aided by word of mouth and social media marketing,” according to the BI account. Presto Eats is a good example of that.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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. billion in annual revenue, has a stock market valuation of $10 billion and an employee headcount that is expected to surpass 10,000 by the end of 2018. As of today, Wayfair brings in $6.6

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

After all, Boston managed to have a St. Patrick’s Day parade in 2018 – despite fears that three consecutive weeks of being decked by snows, winds and flooding might hamper the city’s ability to get out there and really enjoy their green beer. If the deal does forge ahead, it would give Walmart a majority stake in a market of 1.3

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

It’s not only for consumers, though: Alternative lending firm Kabbage recently found that mobile lending is on the rise among small businesses, with a more than 360 percent increase in the number of SMB loans accessed via mobile device between April 2014 and February 2018.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Boston, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. The world’s largest retailer announced it has acquired the crowdsourced, on-demand delivery marketplace Cornershop for $225 million. Kroger released its Q2 earnings this week, and the market did not love what it saw. are reportedly next on the list of expansions. percent increase.

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PYMNTS

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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