PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Shoe brand Allbirds , in particular, has brought a large retail space in New York City. 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. In the past, Allbirds only served 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 launched a new reader that’s compatible with mobile wallets, such as Google Pay and Apple Pay. Tech giant Apple is also upping its payments game.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Goldman Denies Discriminatory Apple Card Practices, Says It Will Reassess Limits. Goldman Sachs has promised to reevaluate how credit limits are determined for Apple Card users after being accused of gender discrimination. Amazon To Build $40M Robotics Innovation Hub Near Boston. Google Dives Into DDAs. Deutsche Bank told U.K.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Future tech is no longer the province of high-end retailers. Innovations in 3D and augmented reality (AR) eCommerce are leveling the playing field and bringing conversion-centered visual technology to any online retailer. The main expansion of 3D is being seen in its dual usage for consumers and retailers. interactions.

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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. 22) before reportedly extending the service into Boston and New York, among other cities. now support Apple Pay.

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Payments Source

OCTOBER 10, 2017

With Apple’s WWDC, Zelle, PayPal’s Venmo and Square Cash, and competition in the consumer payments space is about to kick into high gear, writes Josh Hawkins, vice president of marketing for the Boston-based digital payments company Circle.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2016

A number of major retailers have already adopted processes that let customers stay strapped in their seatbelts while receiving state-of-the-art service. Kohl’s recently integrated Kohl’s Charge with Apple Pay, so customers can now make convenient transactions while still earning Yes2You Rewards. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

That’s become pretty much gospel for brands, retailers and marketers alike. And one of the most valuable forms of data right now is behavioral data because it tells a retailer or brand where a customer or potential customer goes, does and spends their time and money on. In other words, it’s a lot of that uber-valuable type of data.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

London transportation that accepts Oyster will support mobile payments of up to £30 only, and for larger amounts, users can use Vodafone Pay at retailers, which requires a PIN. Apple Needs To Diversify. But the big problem for Apple Pay is that users are not convinced that it is a better way to go than the method they currently use.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Consumers’ interest in going back to their old habits when it comes to things like shopping for groceries and retail goods has persistently been diminishing since we first started asking them about it in the spring. Many of the more exotic offerings, like Apple Pie or S’mores Oreos, are limited-edition releases for superfans.

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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.

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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. Apple Pay wants in, too, as senior vice president Eddy Cue said.

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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Eat Your Coffee CEO and Co-founder Johnny Fayad was in college in Boston when he helped come up with the idea to make energy bars. Eat Your Coffee accepts credit cards as well as express checkout options, including PayPal , Amazon Pay, Apple Pay and Google Pay. The Differentiators.

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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

MARCH 11, 2016

If the secret-keeping is too flashy, consumers usually complain the brand is too cute or playing too coy; they might reject it (though, both Apple and J.J. However, Target is not the only retailer in its segment that is taking such a strong, heavily invested swing at digital. ECommerce was big business for Target in 2015.

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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. I think that the deliverance of FNC will come not from Apple, or Google, or Isis, or Facebook, or Square. The retail experience does. I used the “Fastlane” analogy for US retail at NextBank. What can I say?

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. Apple’s first retail store overhaul in 15 years is hailed by just about everyone as a Grand Slam Home Run – and the store hasn’t even opened yet (it will, in SF, on Saturday). But they, like so many storied retail brands, are going through a bit of a spiraling down.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

Plain cake, glazed, chocolate dipped, Boston creme, powdered sugar and jelly was the standard line – with perhaps the occasional cruller or blueberry cake thrown in for exoticism. Customers, after downloading the new app, log in via Facebook, Google or email and register a card or to use Apple Pay. Android Pay is not yet an option.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a way to avoid app downloads. Passport has designed similar mobile applications for the transportation systems in Chicago, Toronto and Boston. Samsung May Beat Android Pay And Apple Pay In Tapping The African Market.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Amazon Takes Its Bite Out of the Big Apple. 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

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2017

The French grocery co-op partnered with TBWA, the global ad agency behind recent campaigns by Apple, Evian and Absolut Vodka, to bring Fresh Stories to U’s 800 independent supermarkets and hypermarchés in France. And in the Northeast, Instacart and Stop & Shop will be offering same-day delivery to customers in Boston.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

In the Big Apple, where space is at a premium, it’s not easy to grow farm fresh produce. Boston-based agricultural tech company Freight Farms , for example, grows produce inside of shipping containers. As a result, most produce that ends up on a diner’s plate there comes in refrigerated trucks from a farm far away.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2017

Five years ago, Apple Pay wasn’t even a rumor yet; services like Kohl’s Pay and Walmart Pay weren’t on the drawing board; MCX didn’t quite exist yet and PayPal was still mostly associated with being the payments arm of eBay.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

In fact, we’re seeing it happen in a variety of retail, banking and broader commerce pilots and prototypes today. It’s why consumers default to Amazon when they buy online, and why the eCommerce giant now owns north of 40 percent of all online spend, based on Q3 2017 retail sales data. And not just in a retail setting.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2017

We’ve all heard of smart speakers — Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod — but what about these other innovations, which are not dedicated devices but have connected capabilities baked right into the appliance? Innovations such as…. LG Everything. Probably not long at all.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

They provide physical or virtual platforms (like a shopping mall) for multiple groups (like retailers and shoppers) to get together. Put yourselves in the shoes of the Revolution Money team back in 2007, pitching its platform to retailers and consumers. Platforms’ Critical Success Factor: Crossing the Critical Mass Frontier.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The latest twists came in September, when one of the biggest technology and payments events of the year featured the announcement of Apple Inc.’s s entry into the payments business with Apple Pay. Ed Bachelder, payments consultant. Epperson, a managing director at the global business advisory firm AlixPartners LLP.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Get past the benign silliness of that retail and fulfillment dream and you’ll be reminded that Amazon is always pushing at the commerce and payments frontier. “Healthcare is so big and so complex,” former Apple CEO John Sculley recently told a reporter. And the frontier will keep expanding. New Services? million deal.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

McDonalds, which accepts Apple Pay at its 14,000 restaurants in the United States, said Apple Pay accounted for 50 percent of its tap-to-pay transactions. And Walgreens, the nationwide chain of drugstores, said its mobile wallet payments had doubled since Apple Pay came out. A meeting at his favourite place in Boston, Post 390.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 14, 2015

Move over, Apple Pay. We spotted founder Will Grayling on the CBS Evening News last night demoing the technology at a Manhattan retailer. Samsung’s decision to acquire LoopPay in February for $250 million was a clear sign that the company stepping up to the challenge of Apple’s mobile payment technology, Apple Pay.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2016

Its chatbot platform, they hope, will spawn an ecosystem of developers who will find a variety of use cases to make bots a better (and more lucrative) use of their time then developing apps for the Apple and Android ecosystem. Apple, the undisputed king of closed ecosystems, has said that it will soon make apps searchable.

Google 100

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Well Covid survivors, in 2020 it was Zoom, but now as we switch from sweatpants to office-acceptable slacks, this year’s winner has to be Apple. Just a few years ago, Apple was the first company to reach a $1 trillion market cap, yet (watch your jaw) today the company is knocking on the door of a staggering $3 trillion market cap.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

PYMNTS: So, in your opinion, where is the future of the payments industry headed, and will retailers ever be able to figure out the $4 trillion online cart abandonment issue ? When you think of Apple Pay in a web context, it should really be called Apple Checkout. The only two companies that can do this are Apple and Google.

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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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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

The data digs into the likes, dislikes and habits of Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay mobile payments users. Retailers looked at in the study are capable of enabling an NFC payment and include drug/grocery/QSR and some retail. Android and Samsung Pay Users For Debit, Apple for Credit.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Apple’s move this week is about merchants. New research suggests that Apple Pay has gone from being accepted at 16 percent of U.S. And it is a 90 percent that Samsung will compete for unopposed, since neither Apple nor Android Pay have any immediate plans to take on the Thai market. merchants to 36 percent of U.S.

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