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AUGUST 8, 2017

From the way consumers shop for groceries to clothes, books and almost any other conceivable item, there does not seem to be an area of retail unimpacted by AI in some fashion. Now, more than ever, consumers expect a certain level of personalization when interacting with a brand.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Cosi, the Boston-based sandwich chain renowned for its flatbread sandwiches, filed for bankruptcy in a Boston courtroom. “Brand degradation and competitive pressures to either price or experience can be real threats to the survival of struggling retailers,” said Sharon Bonelli, senior director of leveraged finance at Fitch.

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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. All of those things are precisely what Sam Walton staked the Walmart brand on 56 years ago when he opened the first store in Bentonville, Arkansas. That retailer is, of course, Amazon.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

One platform benefitting from the mobile scramble, NewStore, a Boston-based omnichannel mobile commerce platform provider and software developer, recently received $50 million in Series B financing to help fund efforts to expand its mobile platform’s capabilities and partner with new retailers.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

Based in New York, the business is now in seven other cities — Boston, Washington, D.C., That process involves getting inspiration for colors, choosing colors, ordering and getting a quote, and booking a painter. So what we’ve done is really consolidated that into one simple booking platform.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

MiniLuxe is a nail and beauty lifestyle lounge with locations in Dallas, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, and Boston. The company says it is improving on the nail salon model by offering online booking tools, ethical business practices, and high-quality services at reasonable prices. Oh My Cream! Total Disclosed Funding: $6.6M.

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APRIL 20, 2017

Trying to book a trip on Hipmunk seems primitive to the point of being useless. I tried last night to make a reservation from Boston to San Francisco, and it told me that I had presented it with a first: There were no flights between those two cities. So what does the 2.0 American Express. Western Union.

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MAY 27, 2016

At the rate so many once-solitary brands are shacking up with other companies, though, maybe the definition of the term needs to be widened a bit. That subtle checkout conversion mission is still ongoing, but now, Affirm is branching out beyond the regular confines of in-store and online retail. eBay’s Virtual Future.

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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. The online home goods retailer also beat out earnings per share estimates by $0.10, posting a loss of $0.48 eps for the Q1 2017 quarter. in August 2015. .

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AUGUST 4, 2016

Taking a page out of the copy book of the London Tube, where contactless payments have skyrocketed, the Miami-Dade County’s Department of Transportation and Public Works has signed a $33 million contract with Cubic Transportation Systems to install contactless and mobile payments. Miami Transportation To Offer Mobile Payments.

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APRIL 16, 2018

On those content-filled pages were advertisements hoping to catch the consumer’s eye, build a brand and influence a purchase. About every seven or so minutes, there was a commercial break in which ads were inserted with the same ambition — build a brand and drive a buy. And not, it seems, to enable commerce.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I hosted a digital discussion last week with an executive from Sift with more than 15 years of experience building trust and safety organizations for some of the biggest digital brands in the world – including Google , Facebook and Square. Consumers today can use Alexa to order food, book an Uber and do their banking – and they do.

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APRIL 18, 2016

1 source of online fraud. Hey brand, want a better way to engage with your customer? And Messenger and Marcus’ big bet is that its chatbots will provide a mechanism for brands to strike up those conversations with their community faster, cheaper and as well – if not better – than a live person can do now. Remember ZeuS ?

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DECEMBER 9, 2016

Customers can also elect to pay in-store using LevelUp and Chase Pay branded scanners at LevelUp merchants — and Chase Pay customers will be able to access LevelUp merchant offers though the app. The new feature is already online at quick-service restaurants in Boston and will be rolled out across the country over the coming months.

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JANUARY 15, 2018

It explains why many fitness trackers, gym memberships, home exercise equipment, or books or apps on physical and financial self-improvement bought at the start of the year begin to collect dust right around Valentine’s Day – just in time for a big romantic dinner. It’s just another use case for digital order ahead.

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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. They have also mentioned the use of drone delivery, although this one looks more than a little sci-fi for now (along with providing inspiration for a brand new sport I’ll call for now “Skeet Shopping”). What can I say?

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AUGUST 9, 2018

It’s a tall order for a Boston-based furniture company – but Wayfair has always thought big, even when it was very, very small. So small, in fact, that when it first started in 2002, the entire operation fit easily into the spare bedroom of Co-founder Steve Conine’s Boston home. As of today, that one-room idea has grown to $6.6

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Online retailers will be where we shop. Shift Number One | The Shift To Buying Online. We’ve been watching online sales now grow — even double — year over year, for many years now, but it’s still tiny, overall. Take books, for example. For most of the last decade, we’ve been talking about the same old, same old.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The media has declared chatbots the digital version of the little black dress: a technology staple that every brand must now have and every payment type must now commerce-enable. Uber, OpenTable and hotel and airline apps provide booking and payment functionality for those who want and need those services.

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MARCH 26, 2019

” For example, the rise of “athleisure” brands like Lululemon and Athleta has been attributed to millennials’ search for clothing options that let them easily transition from the yoga studio to the office. Savvy marketers at struggling cereal brands may be able to reverse their fortunes with the millennial set.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

While it was easy to chalk things up then to the financial crisis and the consumer spending hangover that resulted, we dug deeper and discovered the enormous shifts in buying online from physical stores that had been underway. Clover Food Labs was one food truck with a Square reader in Boston in 2008.

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APRIL 24, 2018

E-commerce sales growth is pulling ahead of total retail sales ( 17% vs. 6% for year-over-year in Q4’17), and Amazon is controlling upwards of 40% of online sales in the US, according to the US Department of Commerce and Slice Intelligence, respectively. ” — Alistair Davidson, CFO, Ikea. Its membership fee revenue grew 12.6%

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

They are a diverse group of players, ranging from automotive industry stalwarts to leading technology brands and telecommunications companies. A few of the companies or brands listed below belong to the same parent organization, but are detailed separately if they are operating distinct autonomous development programs.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

While they drum up interest in the company, known as “book building,” underwriters also work to price the IPO, or determine how the stock should be priced when it first hits the market. Boston Consulting Group predicts, however, that only a few investment banks will ever again be able to grow to that kind of size.

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MAY 10, 2018

Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. By demystifying the management consulting process, books, classes, and blog posts bring more transparency to the marketplace of ideas.

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MARCH 19, 2018

In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. I ordered Vance Packard ’s classic book, “ The Hidden Persuaders ,” written in 1959, from Amazon last week.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

The modern-day department store, the intermediary that’s aggregated brands and buyers in a single physical location for more than 160 years, and the modern-day shopping mall, which has done the same for the last six decades, has steadily lost foot traffic, sales and profits to online competitors since about 2010.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

The modern-day department store, the intermediary that’s aggregated brands and buyers in a single physical location for more than 160 years, and the modern-day shopping mall, which has done the same for the last six decades, has steadily lost foot traffic, sales and profits to online competitors since about 2010.

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JULY 22, 2019

Had I been in town, I might have used Google to find a store near me in Boston that carried the brand I wanted so I could try before I bought. Little known fact: Leach writes in his book that Georgia O’Keefe made a tidy sum in 1927 by painting posters that graced department store walls and windows.

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