PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Brick-and-mortar retail oftentimes gets a bad rap in 2018. Last year saw store closures spike 200 percent to 7,000 — the worst retail bloodletting since the dark days of the 2008 recession. The widely shared consensus is that this could all get quite a bit worse for physical retail before it gets better.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

billion yuan ($155 million) over the same period in 2019. The average daily sales for retail, food and beverages was 4.9 Boston Consulting Group in September has estimated that the demand for luxury goods could underpin a spending boost on the order of 30 percent as the Chinese economy rebounds. percent from 2019.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 2, 2019

Welcome to the latest episode of our weekly wrap video series, for the week ending August 2, 2019.

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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. Power 2019 U.S. Financial Services at Cisco Live 2019.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The health retailer is looking to open concept stores in the beginning of 2019, CNBC reported. The retailer plans to focus on the management of chronic conditions, such as asthma, kidney disease and cardiovascular disease, while also seeking to encompass more services at its MinuteClinics.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 23, 2017

You will all know by now that I love the innovations in retail banking in Turkey, and Gürhan didn’t disappoint. Former Barclays chief will stand trial over Qatari fundraising in January 2019 – The Telegraph … The post The Finanser’s Week: 17th July – 23rd July 2017 appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

The fast-food giant started McD Tech Labs in 2019, a venture based in Silicon Valley staffed with tech workers that include data scientists and engineers. Digital is transforming global retail, and it will transform McDonald ’s,” said CEO Chris Kempczinski. “At Before coming to McDonald’s, Brady worked at the Boston Consulting Group.

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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. Power 2019 U.S. Financial Services at Cisco Live 2019.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As the buyer of the luxury retailer brand negotiates with the store’s landlord, Barneys New York’s flagship store on Madison Avenue in Manhattan will stay open for at least another year in a smaller form. 7, 2019 in accordance with the bankruptcy court order.”. Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp.

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PYMNTS

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

AUGUST 24, 2019

Last year, in fact, some 80 million people bought mobile game tickets – and it is fairly certain that number will continue to increase in 2019 and into 2020. For the 2019 NFL season – PYMNTS is based in Boston, so Go Pats! – we can also expect more voice-assistant retail as part of the games.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2020

But what about the entrepreneurs who are still hanging onto their dreams of starting a retail business? Quite the contrary,” says Bob Brennan, chairman of the National Expansion Council and one of the directors of a nonprofit organization called Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) based in Boston, Massachusetts. “I

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

While sales fell 25 percent in the first quarter, the slowdown is expected to accelerate in the second quarter and could lead to an estimated contraction by as much as 35 percent for the year, said the Boston-based investment firm. Bain & Company said it anticipates that a recovery to 2019 levels will not occur until 2022 or 2023.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

s two resident retail superpowers’ race for the consumer’s whole paycheck this week. The world’s largest physical retailer, Walmart, spent much of its earnings call with analysts discussing its digital commerce victories and expansion. economics, told CNBC that she expects retail sales — excluding autos — to have risen by 0.6

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

On March 24, on what would have usually been a busy day at the start of spring, the state ordered all nonessential retail shops on the green to shut down, as the pandemic crept its way north from New York City and south from Boston. That day was the start of a harrowing three-month retail lockdown.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

Business for the app-based company has heated up since the pandemic, with the WSJ reporting that fourth-quarter revenue mushroomed to 10 times what was seen in the same period for 2019. After Boston Italian restaurant Stella closed its doors due to pandemic losses, chef and owner Evan Deluty reinvented Stella as a gourmet food truck.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

consumers’ use of its contactless cards and digital wallets rose 150 percent between March 2019 and March 2020. . In-Person Retail, eCommerce Drive CNP Purchasing. Many recently reopened retailers are insisting on processing digital, CNP transactions. One credit card network reported that U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

In a recent trend, eCommerce mattress brands have been moving into the world of brick-and-mortar retail by opening their own stores and pop-up shops to help let customers test-drive their products in real life. Through the partnership, Nectar Sleep’s mattresses will come to over 250 of the retailer’s locations on the East Coast in 2019.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2019

In 2019 alcohol consumption in the U.S. 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. Both Anheuser Busch and Boston Beer Company (better known as Sam Adams) have released their own versions of spiked seltzer.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

Chipotle , too, is enjoying the benefits of investing in digital and delivery, at least according to its own Q2 2019 results. Need more evidence of the rise of mobile-order ahead offerings as 2019 gives way to 2020? Previously, the company had an exclusive delivery arrangement with Uber. The chain’s digital sales grew 99.1

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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 Share of U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

Boston-based vegetarian fast food chain Clover Food Lab is getting one-third of its business via mobile ordering software it wrote itself — a bold move that most small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) could never take on. Delivering Customer Loyalty. The coming of kiosks isn’t isolated to the enterprise burger business.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

That matters because as time goes by and existing cities become prohibitively expensive — think San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles, with Chicago, Boston and other areas not far behind — many younger, well-educated consumers are making moves to exurban or even rural areas, or smaller cities. communities. Government Efforts.

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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. As of 2019, it seems the two are working hard and getting a jump on that cashless Super Bowl vision. According to data from the National Retail Federation (NRF), stores will bring in around $14.8 Snack Time.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The fee-free card is Goldman Sachs’ latest inroad into the retail consumer business after establishing its online Marcus brand in 2016, which makes unsecured personal loans. According to reports last week, Amazon will soon be heading to Boston to construct a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub. India, the U.K.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The retailer has made the Walmart app more Rx-friendly, opening express lanes in stores to reduce the amount of time people spend waiting in lines for refills. According to a recent pilot study at a pediatric hematology clinic at Boston Medical Center, ridesharing services reduced the clinic's no-show rate by 8.5 percentage points.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

The state legislature adopted such regulations in late 2019, permitting these services for use beginning in January 2020. It is only natural that consumers would expect the same ease of use and convenience in other areas of their lives as they have come to expect from retail shopping.

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MyBankTracker

MAY 7, 2021

John Hancock, also known as The John Hancock Life Insurance Company, was founded in 1862 with operations based mainly in Boston, Massachusetts. Once the request is received, an assistant to their licensed insurance representatives will call you from the Boston headquarters. Background on John Hancock. John Hancock Vitality PLUS.

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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. Rumors had Walmart wanting to buy Blue Apron — the retail chain, after all, was and still is engaged in an existential struggle with Amazon, and was trying to pump up its eCommerce offerings.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Bloomberg reported this week that Boston-based home décor eCommerce giant Wayfair turned in strong Q3 financials, noting that the firm’s quarterly results “exceeded analysts’ estimates, suggesting the wave of home improvement inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic is lingering.”. percent in Q3 2019. Those repeat shoppers made 11.3

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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. Rumors had Walmart wanting to buy Blue Apron – the retail chain, after all, was and still is engaged in an existential struggle with Amazon, and was trying to pump up its eCommerce offerings.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

The Centre for Digital Financial Inclusion has estimated 63 percent of retailers in the country are willing to adopt cashless payments — up from 31 percent prior to implementation of demonetization last year — in part as mobile phones are wielded by 84 percent of consumers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Sports teams, including the San Francisco 49ers and the Boston Celtics, also invested. “We The company’s agenda for 2019, now that it has a war chest of investor funds to support it, is to keep that growth going, and expanding. This new round will enable us to once again intensify our strategy for global growth,” said Sobhani.

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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. As it stands, the chain has locations in cities such as Boston, New York and Los Angeles, among others. The space, like that at Ballston Quarter, is set to have a local focus — with outposts of New York City restaurants like Clinton St.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2019

2,420 in Boston and $2,300 in Seattle for a no-frills one-bedroom, probably a walk-up. are projected to more than triple from the 3,000 or so units as of early 2019 to 10,000 by the end of the year, according to a new report by real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield. Co-living companies in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

So, Amazon hasn’t just benefited its customers: It has forced retailers to lower prices and increase their levels of service. percent of all retail sales to 6.4 percent of retail sales and 50 percent of all eCommerce sales. Yet, over the last four years, Amazon has gone from 2.2 If and when they no longer do, they won’t.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

For example, we have shareable smartphone chargers in 16 bars in restaurants in Boston Logan Airport. Imagine instead if there were snow shovels attached using a smart lock to every street lamp in Boston. Students can then use the shareable products free of charge. The same model applies in other markets.

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