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MAY 10, 2018

Businesses are largely behind the push, with government initiatives promoting a digital economy and FinTech innovators targeting corporate payments and finance in addition to their consumer-focused endeavors. Adding pressure to this issue is the fact that bad corporate debts and nonperforming assets on banks’ books are on the rise.

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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. Innovation by Any Other Name. Back here in the U.S.,

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JANUARY 14, 2021

After Boston Italian restaurant Stella closed its doors due to pandemic losses, chef and owner Evan Deluty reinvented Stella as a gourmet food truck. Seated offers a mobile app and booking-and-rewards platform that incentivizes customers to dine in upscale, full-service restaurants (FSRs).

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

But luckily, where there is a problem, there is typically an innovative entrepreneur selling a solution – and in the case of sleep, there are a lot of solutions out there. It feels a lot more like play than work,” Lisa Kelly-Croswell, the chief human resources officer at Boston Medical Center, noted of the program.

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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. 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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APRIL 20, 2017

Annoyed to the point of swearing them off for good: “Shopping with a bot is tedious — it takes 20 exchanges to finally get a link to a just-OK pair of black pumps that you have to then go outside the bot to the retailer site to buy. Trying to book a trip on Hipmunk seems primitive to the point of being useless. Aeromexico.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As internet retailers are expanding their operations into brick-and-mortar operations (think Warby Parker, Argent, Bonobos, and BaubleBar ), venture capitalists are also investing in “physical-first” startups focused on creating new brick-and-mortar business models. New Frontiers in Retail Tech. How will we shop in 2020?

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AUGUST 5, 2016

For a startup that’s done some pretty heavy lifting to successfully recruit merchants to join an innovative new eCommerce platform, being front page news lauding its accomplishments is always great news. And Boston-based D rizly ’s news yesterday of its $15 million in Series B funding was a noteworthy milestone, for sure. .

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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. The retail experience does. I used the “Fastlane” analogy for US retail at NextBank. NFC, BLE beacons and other wireless protocols applied to retail are scenario two. What can I say? I crack myself up.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

So, Amazon hasn’t just benefited its customers: It has forced retailers to lower prices and increase their levels of service. Consumers today can use Alexa to order food, book an Uber and do their banking – and they do. percent of all retail sales to 6.4 percent of retail sales and 50 percent of all eCommerce sales.

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APRIL 16, 2018

That most of our elected officials don’t have any clue how Facebook, much less the platform business models that have powered so much innovation across industry segments for thousands of years, work. Law” or “CSI” or reading The Boston Globe or The Wall Street Journal all more or less liked the same things. trillion searches a year.

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MARCH 14, 2016

Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering the economics through Internet-based technology, generating significant consumer benefits.” Except, of course, it didn’t – and it is now in the crowded graveyard of payments innovations that sounded too good to be true.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

The goal of the Wayfair worker is to work on “innovating better together,” becoming “fast fixers and builders” and to help customers to better “envision the spaces where they live their lives.”. It’s a tall order for a Boston-based furniture company – but Wayfair has always thought big, even when it was very, very small.

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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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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

have a retail crisis — or a small business crisis? Which is why “fixing” retail must include giving SMB merchants the tools they need to compete in the very dynamic environment that now defines Retail U.S.A. So, what does this all have to do with retail? Here’s a question: Does the U.S. Here’s an answer. We have both.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

JANUARY 19, 2017

Naturally, as is the case for most forward-looking of retailers, they do not take cash, so I paid with one of the many cards about my person. Perry Kramer, vice president and practice lead at consultant Boston Retail Partners, contends that as many as four-fifths of (US, I presume) retailers are already “largely cashless”.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Messenger Chief David Marcus has even said publicly that his inspiration for Messenger is, in fact, the ecosystem that 860 million Chinese use to do everything from text friends, to hail a taxi, to pay bills, to make a reservation at a restaurant, to book a doctor’s appointment, to use QR codes to shop at their favorite physical stores.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Online retailers will be where we shop. I believe that this inflection point will accelerate the four big shifts that have been taking place right before our very eyes over the last decade — shifts that will now set the course for how every single player in payments and commerce and retail should be planning their 2017 and beyond.

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APRIL 4, 2016

I argued that making buying seamless inside of environments that consumers used regularly for other reasons would drive innovation for those environments —and for the third parties that enabled those new commerce experiences. Third on that list was “contextual commerce.”. UBER: THE ROAD FROM RIDESHARING TO CONTEXTUAL COMMERCE 2.0.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Fall has arrived in Boston and we are sizzling. Regardless, the full employment act for lawyers on these matters continues as the Supreme Court just yesterday agreed to take the appeal of the New York state law barring retailers from imposing surcharges on purchases made with a credit card instead of cash. They were …. Payday Lending.

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JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Retail/Consumer Goods.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

In the 1950s and 1960s, the biggest innovations in breakfast were Eggo Waffles and Pop-Tarts. GET THE 54-PAGE RETAIL TRENDS REPORT. Not all in-store retailers have fallen out of favor with millennials the way department stores have. 70% of millennials say that they shop at off-price retailers like TJ Maxx and Marshalls.

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JUNE 14, 2018

Forward-thinking startups and large tech companies like Facebook and Google are focused on innovation in single-family and multi-family residential construction. Blokable was founded by Aaron Holm, who formerly spearheaded physical retail efforts at Amazon. worth of bookings, and as of April 2018, it employs over 1,400 people.

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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. And not even because they’re job destroyers, which he said is the natural consequence of innovation, and innovation is goodness.

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CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

A completely remote workforce seems unlikely, given the intangible benefits of social connection, collaboration, and innovation that in-person working provides. After raising $9M in Series A funding in May 2020, the company stated it expected a 500% increase in sales bookings quarter-over-quarter (QoQ). Source: VergeSense.

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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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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Steering the ship — handling all of the engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and retailing, even when you’re taking 90 percent of the subsequent profits — was ultimately too expensive of a proposition, especially in comparison to other, less-handholding-oriented start-ups. via Beta Boston. ” via Boston Globe. via Forbes.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

The beloved mall kiosk, or the more formally named retail merchandising unit ( RMU ), had its humble beginnings in Boston. In addition to helping entrepreneurs, the retail concept also helped malls bring in different sorts of merchants. “The industry has not kept pace with modern retail.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. We have enjoyed helping you find great restaurants, access tough-to-book reservations and discover local chef events.”

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

The escalation of this now seven-year-old death spiral in just the last two years — from May 2015 to June 2017 — has wiped out $230 billion in market value off the top 20 traditional retailers. I need a new pair of snow boots; it’s Boston, and winter is coming.”. Say Hello to Disintermediation.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The escalation of this now seven-year-old death spiral in just the last two years — from May 2015 to June 2017 — has wiped out $230 billion in market value off the top 20 traditional retailers. I need a new pair of snow boots; it’s Boston, and winter is coming.”. Say Hello to Disintermediation.

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