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AUGUST 8, 2017

With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), retailers and merchants have the capability to reach a much larger array of consumers on an extremely tailored and personal level. As such, it should come as no surprise that many retailers are using AI to help boost both their products and services.

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MAY 10, 2018

In a statement at the time, the FI’s CEO, Rana Kapoor, said the B2B payment landscape was in the midst of a “tectonic shift with the influx of new financial technologies revolutionizing the way banking services are offered to corporate and retail customers.” Rising Risks, Demand For Digitization: A Double Threat.

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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. Big Play of the Week: The Power of Prime Day to Move Markets .

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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. Will Sears be the next major retailer to file for bankruptcy? ” Those retailers who made Fitch’s list are: Sears Holdings Corp., 99 Cents Only Stores LLC, Nebraska Book Company, Inc.,

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

According to McKinsey , if you take the approximate value of all the sleep swag on the market as of 2018 –think luxury pajamas , high-end bed linens , cuddling robots , DTC mattresses and odd gadgets – it generates somewhere between $30 billion and $45 billion annually in revenue worldwide. Boston Med has offered Sleepio since 2016.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Consumers can buy shoes, books, coffee pots, linens and dog toys online, so why are they still going to the grocery store for the same dozen eggs and gallon of milk they buy every week? Boston-based meal kit company Just Add Cooking aims to address both by sourcing its kits from farms and businesses in the New England region.

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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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AUGUST 22, 2018

In fact, in its founding days back in 2002, Wayfair fit comfortably in the spare bedroom of Conine’s Boston-area home. billion in annual revenue, has a stock market valuation of $10 billion and an employee headcount that is expected to surpass 10,000 by the end of 2018. As of today, Wayfair brings in $6.6

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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. But surcharging as a topic of conversation in the U.S.

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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. 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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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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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

From sharing a ride to borrowing books and taking a spin on someone else’s boat, the possibilities are endless. We then distribute their products to markets where sharing makes sense. Although he had prior experience in sales and marketing, he needed both engineering expertise and investment to get his idea off the ground.

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AUGUST 5, 2016

And Boston-based D rizly ’s news yesterday of its $15 million in Series B funding was a noteworthy milestone, for sure. . Most local liquor store retailers don’t have websites, which means that they don’t have online product catalogues for starters. We look a lot like what Amazon did with books and Kayak did with travel.”.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

Based in New York, the business is now in seven other cities — Boston, Washington, D.C., Mike Russell, CEO of Paintzen, spoke with PYMNTS about the business, where it’s headed and why it’s like no other option in the market. So what we’ve done is really consolidated that into one simple booking platform. What is Paintzen?

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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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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

Law” or “CSI” or reading The Boston Globe or The Wall Street Journal all more or less liked the same things. Why has the weather been so crappy for the Boston Marathon for the last 10 years? Consumers make 40,000 searches every second on Google Search for a total of more than 3.5 billion searches a day or some 1.2

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APRIL 17, 2018

He received his MBA in 1993 from UT Austin before joining Credit Suisse First Boston as an Equity Research Analyst, where he focused on computer hardware and software. Jeff began his post-graduate career as a Management Consultant with The Boston Consulting Group. PROFILES OF THE TOP 20 VENTURE CAPITAL PARTNERS. BILL GURLEY.

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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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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. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

And before the dot com crash, Goldman Sachs’ IPOs did tend to jump an average of 293% from their starting price through their first Friday on the market — compared to 26% for the bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and 78% for Merrill Lynch. When Facebook went public in 2012, the stock fell 15% in its first few days on the market.

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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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MARCH 14, 2016

Evans, with his long-time colleague Dick Schmalensee, spent last year putting a lot of what we know in a new Harvard Business Review Press book, “ Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms ,” that’s going to be rolling off the presses in a few weeks. They all follow the same principles and face the same challenges.

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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. No small businesses in those areas means no SMB jobs in those markets. Here’s a question: Does the U.S.

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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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APRIL 4, 2016

Six years and an expanding inventory of cars and price points later, Uber’s platform has a market cap of $70 billion, more than 1 million drivers across 400 cities worldwide who’ve delivered a 1 billion rides – and the first instance of what we now call “invisible” payments in the offline world. MESSENGER: FROM CONVERSATION TO COMMERCE .

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MARCH 26, 2019

. “Cereal used to be the only breakfast option, [but] there’s a lot more to choose from than there ever used to be,” says Andrew Shripka, Kellogg’s associate director of brand marketing. Savvy marketers at struggling cereal brands may be able to reverse their fortunes with the millennial set.

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JUNE 14, 2018

T echnology trends and market needs are pushing companies to set their sights on the residential real estate and construction industry. 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. To date Katerra has had $1.3B

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MARCH 13, 2020

In addition, Airbnb has seen its bookings drop by 40 percent. Mayors from Boston and New York City, among other cities, are participating in a program in which Grubhub will halt the collection of a maximum of $100 million in commission payments from restaurants nationwide. A change would let daily traders work from their residences.

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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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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

But a few common threads do emerge, such as an inability to generate sustainable revenue, bad product-market fit, losing to competitors, and (of course) simply running out of money. via Beta Boston. Meanwhile, it floated other plans, like starting a print catalogue and delivering for local retailers. Company: Rdio. via Forbes.

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JULY 23, 2020

While still relatively new, biometric technology is a growing market , and its advantages are driving increased adoption. 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). Finally, several of these solutions are relatively low in cost.

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JULY 19, 2017

Retail/Consumer Goods. From their humble, skunkworks-style origins in Palo Alto to their current offices in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Seattle, and Boston, they’ve scaled up to attack new projects but keep the same focus on experimentation and innovation that helped them build the first Kindle. Innovation Lab Name: One Market Center.

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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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OCTOBER 31, 2017

Fresco’s head of community marketing, Johnathan Hamiter, began sending employees private Slack messages saying funding seemed “pretty bleak” and encouraging them to look for other jobs. Unfortunately, we were not able to find our place in the market. But we just didn’t feel as confident in that market.”. Around 4 p.m.,

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

That market power gave the merchant guilds who organized trade inside the Bazaar license to set the rules of engagement for the merchants who wanted to be part of it. Having lost its position of market power and influence, the Grand Bazaar was forced to reboot, and sellers had to adjust. That worked well. Until it didn’t.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

That market power gave the merchant guilds who organized trade inside the Bazaar license to set the rules of engagement for the merchants who wanted to be part of it. Having lost its position of market power and influence, the Grand Bazaar was forced to reboot, and sellers had to adjust. That worked well. Until it didn’t.

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