PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Nike North America Media Relations Director Josh Benedek told Front Office Sports that the company took the “heavy lifting” out of shopping with its checkout experience: “All your preferences, all your credit card payments, everything like that is already set up on your phone. It makes that purchasing much easier.”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Store count isn’t everything,” CEO Suzanne Greco told The Boston Globe. As a high-profile American brand, Subway may have some luck with its plans for international expansion — it plans to open more than 1,000 locations abroad this year — but it appears that America has already moved on. It’s about growing the business.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2019

The company will open up 20 new locations in North America this year before it starts to focus on going international. as well as a second Boston location and a fourth in the Greater Toronto Area, according to Chain Store Age. Boston’s Seaport district and Roseville are scheduled to open in March. Greenwich, Conn.;

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Indeed, it does not take extensive examination to see, in Wayne Gretzgy’s words, “where the puck is going” Digital needs to be a top technology priority among financial institutions – particularly in highly digitally-directed markets such as North America and Western Europe. That is changing, but not quickly.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

Retail continues to migrate toward eCommerce, but warehouse space is not designed to keep up with the increasing pace of online orders. It’s not very easy to remodel a warehouse if the ceiling height is too low,” CBRE’s Director of Research for the Americas Colin Yasukochi said in a report. The average age of a warehouse in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

Some companies, such as French sporting goods retailer Decathlon , are turning to QR codes as they expand to new markets, notably the U.S. The company recently partnered up with a number of merchants to drive acceptance of its mobile wallet, Apple Pay, including retailers like Bonobos and electric scooter rental company Bird.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2018

Austin, Boston, New York and D.C. Boston, Massachusetts. Through this process, we learned about many new communities across North America that we will consider as locations for future infrastructure investment and job creation.”. all made the cut, as did some surprises like Columbus, Ohio. Politicians across the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Retailers, in particular, are wary of adopting 2FA because of the frictions the method can present, and their fears are not without merit. A recent FICO survey found that 51 percent of banks in North America still require customers to visit branches to prove their identities and complete their onboarding procedures.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

Then I went to Whole Foods on the North Shore of Boston Saturday morning to do some grocery shopping. I’ve been a Whole Foods shopper since I moved to Boston 17 years ago for the same reasons that each of you may be too: organic meat, seafood, produce and foods, great bread and cheese and a fun vibe. Prime Time at the Grocery Store.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

Doing business online is the bridge for American small businesses through this crisis and into the next decade,” said John Caplan, president of Alibaba.com for North America and Europe. Beauty , a makeup and beauty products retailer. Ultimately, our goal is to give SMBs even greater access to the $23.9 based B.A.A.B.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2020

The fictional story is about a virus that originates in Africa in the 1960s and spreads to America by a monkey released into the forests of California. The disease spreads as far as Boston but is more or less contained in the small town of Cedar Creek, Calif., and that’s where the cure must be found.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2016

The program is called Drizly Connect and it’s launching in Boston and D.C. Without Connect, when a customer walks into a liquor store and that retailer doesn’t carry the product they want, the customer either settles for something else or leaves empty-handed,” said Nick Rellas , CEO and co-founder of Drizly.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2021

America did not have a good week. In it, a series of Boston Dynamics robots definitively answer the question: Do you love me, now that I can dance? Which, according to Aaron Saunders , Boston Dynamics’ VP of engineering, is pretty much the point: introducing the world to the fun side of robotics. COVID-19 is on the rise.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

Mastercard and Bank of America know it’s not easy. Mastercard’s “Grow Your Biz” contest for SMBs in Boston, Massachusetts, concluded in December. We see that so many people have amazing ideas and are pushing to go to the next level,” said Margaret Curran, North America communications specialist, Mastercard.

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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. Michelle Meyer, Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s head of U.S. We’re above consensus.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2016

Dunkin’ Donuts already partners with DoorDash to offer this delivery service in parts of Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Having spent many years in Boston, Dunkin’ was ingrained as a part of our daily life,” Prahar Shah, DoorDash’s head of business development, said in a statement.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2020

America doesn’t have the appetite for this. We want restaurants to work so badly that we are willing to lie to ourselves,” Heather Mojer, co-owner and beverage director at Boston-based Big Dipper Hospitality Group , operator of the Café Du Pays, Mamaleh’s Delicatessen and State Park restaurants, wrote in an Instagram post. “We

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Macy’s seems to be on something of a “say yes to everything” kick in 2016 as it tries to reset its business model after what has been a highly chaotic year for the struggling department store retailer. Its latest experiment with out-of-the-box thinking is in its beauty offerings.

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 20, 2017

EMEA led the pack quantitatively, with APAC and North America roughly the same, and the strongest showing yet from Latin America. As for what you can expect between now and April 4 in Boston, look for a series of articles from the Celent analyst team highlighting some of the many insights that we’ve gleaned along the way.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2018

On the upside, the bot can remember a previous order (via data pulled from a customer’s DD Perks account), so as long as users can confirm where they want to pick up their orders, they’ll get a Google Map-powered delivery estimate for how far they are from a Boston Kreme or glazed blueberry donut. Will it change the world forever?

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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

APRIL 26, 2018

According to The Boston Globe , Chief Executive Officer Suzanne Greco said, ‘‘We want to be sure that we have the best location. This year, the chain will add more than 1,000 locations outside of North America, and is focused on growth in countries that include the U.K., Subway is planning to close around 500 more of its U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2017

The Super Bowl may be a memory, but the somewhat improbable victory of the New England Patriots was still fresh in the minds of many at snow-jammed Boston during Innovation Project 2017. In many firms, “from SMBs up to the biggest retailers,” said the executive, assets have been siloed. Bisignano agreed (“This is a journey”).

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2016

(If a hot dog isn’t within an arm’s reach of a person, in fact, it’s either not baseball season, or they’re not even in America.) See: observation re: America above.) It’s Fenway Park, home of the (Boston-based PYMNTS.com’s beloved) Boston Red Sox. So, a fan will likely be paying for one or two (or three or four?)

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2019

It is not quite fair to say that America has become a nation of teetotalers or is even well on their way to becoming one. Both Anheuser Busch and Boston Beer Company (better known as Sam Adams) have released their own versions of spiked seltzer. White Claw was the fad drink of the summer and did $1.2

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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 By most accounts it has been a better than good week for the team at Wayfair.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

According to its survey of 507 vendors of merchant processing systems, Apple Pay is the most requested mobile digital payments service among retailers. ” And though we live in Boston, Massachusetts, where it is usually dreadfully cold in the winter, we take his point about the dipping, answering and discomfort. .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

Josh Glover, EVP of the Americas at banking technology provider nCino, said that when it comes to corporate banking and lending, the end-user experience is just as much of a focus for traditional banks engaging in digital transformation as it is in the consumer banking market.

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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. Same-store sales, one of the favored metrics for judging retail, excluding fuel, increased 1.6 are reportedly next on the list of expansions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Like so much of the retail industry, hospitality is all about customer experience. Aloft Hotel — Boston Seaport & Santa Clara, California. Last December, 10 rooms at the Aloft Hotel in Boston’s Seaport got smart. That’s in addition to Aloft Hotel in Santa Barbara, which got the technology in September 2016.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2020

The phrase has since been uttered quite a few times, by many, many sports luminaries: Magic Johnson, Nancy Kerrigan, Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the 2004 World Series Boston Red Sox. But, as a highly scientific study by PYMNTS reveals, this is not the case. Americans are brave people.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2018

Goldman Sachs will face some tough competition in the commercial banking market, where JPMorgan, Citigroup, Bank of America and Wells Fargo are the leading players – and have been for a while. Retail Workers: JD.com CEO Richard Liu envisions the day when retail workers go the way of the dodo – due to robo.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Amazon reportedly plans to build a second headquarters somewhere else in North America. So far, however, the candidates (including Toronto, Boston, Washington, Atlanta, Dallas and Denver) seem to suffer from the same shortcomings. Headquarters 2.0. The facility would employ 50,000 professionals, all making six-figure salaries.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2017

No one had ever heard the word chatbot; AI personal assistants were things that existed in Marvel Universe Movies, not real life; Netflix’s doom was predicted often; self-driving cars were science fiction; Macy’s was one of the top retailers in America and almost no one had even the faintest idea of what an Uber was — or why anyone would want one.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2017

Jim Harper, CEO of Sonde Health in Boston, which is working on voice tests to monitor for postpartum depression, Parkinson’s and dementia, was quoted as saying: “We’re trying to make this ubiquitous and universal by engineering a technology that allows our software to operate on mobile phones and a range of other voice-enabled devices.”.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

Customer contact centers are reshaping retail service for the technology age. Certainly for the largest banks, contact centers are evolving into digital retail centers, managing new digital channels to handle more customer support activities previously conducted in-person at branches. Bob Meara, retail banking expert.

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