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OCTOBER 4, 2019

Online retailers are expanding their brick-and-mortar footprints – and using feedback from eCommerce customers to inform the selections in their new stores. Amazon , in one case, has added a suburban Boston location to its roster of Amazon 4-star stores, marking the fifth location of its type in the United States.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 18, 2017

In the video, Lore presents a plan to bet Wal-Mart’s future not on e-commerce standbys such as books, electronics, and toys, but on product areas only now becoming popular online, including apparel, fresh food, and “everyday essentials” like drugstore items. “AMAZON IS DOMINATING” reads a slide on a large screen behind him.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Have you purchased anything online recently? If you’re like most Americans , you have, and you likely were grateful for the time saved in traffic and at the store, or for the time or money saved in booking a trip. One study by The Boston Consulting Group estimated that small and midsize U.S. Reducing the IT burden.

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JUNE 14, 2017

Online ordering now makes up more than 25 percent of orders at the chain’s company-owned stores. Trials at the Boston-area restaurant showed how each adjustment would affect the rest of the assembly line. For instance, online ordering reduced wait time at the counter but made life harder in the kitchen.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

That, Daie said, is exactly what the Fevo service does – in essence, it makes it easy for groups of adults to book together for a shared event by paying separately, and even reorganizing the plan and its participants on the fly. The other group members can then book their own tickets, and even invite other participants. How It Works.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

To describe these behaviors, author and behavioral scientist Dr. Robert Cialdini coined the term “social proof” in his landmark book, “ Influence ,” which was first published in 1984. The owner of an upscale hair salon in Boston is an example of a business living this reality. Saving Main Street. Even more of them are closing.

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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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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Whether it’s yoga, boxing, pilates, bootcamp or whatever fitness program you’re into lately, you can book a trainer on-demand at a more reasonable price. We’re launching New York and Boston soon. The user logs on and can book one session, or they can be on a four- or eight-session membership.

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MAY 29, 2017

Some were already investors in the startup, which is headquartered in New York City and will use the funding to expand into Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., It’s time-consuming and difficult to navigate, with many businesses not even having a presence online.”. and Chicago.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Oakland, San Jose, San Francisco, Detroit, Austin, Boston and Chicago. Amazon has only been in Mexico since 2013 when it launched its Kindle e-books site there. Mexico presently has a $50 limit on online purchases that can be imported duty-free, but talks are ongoing with the U.S. Obligatory Whole Foods Update.

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MARCH 9, 2020

The model for the DineVite online and mobile app is actually similar to social media. Restaurants can add incentive to a slow night, or pull back on promotions during full bookings. As the year rolls on he expects to launch in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Boston and Miami.

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PYMNTS

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. It wasn’t until 2011, when a complaint was filed with the U.K.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2017

As every other kind of commerce moves online, food and grocery have likewise been migrating in a digital direction – and why not? 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?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

The pods set up shop in places where the nap-needing tend to gather – university campuses and office spaces being their two main sweet spots – and offer the chance to book a 20-minute to two-hour nap online or on mobile with a few clicks or taps. Boston Med has offered Sleepio since 2016. But does it really work?

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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. As of now, the firm is looking to branch out from its Copley Place headquarters in downtown Boston and into a neighboring building that reportedly has enough space to accommodate it. Doubling Down On Tech.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Everyone made it back to Boston; no one gave up and started a new life on the slopes. Freebird, the business Bernstein went on to co-found, is his better way – at least for business travelers who book their arrangements through their corporate travel departments. Which it was, eventually. Today, that means business travelers.

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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 30, 2016

Cosi, the Boston-based sandwich chain renowned for its flatbread sandwiches, filed for bankruptcy in a Boston courtroom. 99 Cents Only Stores LLC, Nebraska Book Company, Inc., Cosi operated 74 company-owned restaurants and 31 franchised restaurants in 15 states at the time of filing. . Claire’s Stores, Inc., and Rue21, Inc.

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JUNE 1, 2017

Is your information secure online? Every year, the company does a consumer confidence survey (this year conducted by Harris Poll and Nielsen) and publishes the results in an e-book. Are you sure? RSA takes a closer look at consumer perceptions of security … and the reality. The 2017 report is now available.

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AUGUST 16, 2019

As of the first day of August 1994 more people had walked on the surface of the moon than had bought things online, because online shopping did not yet exist. Stores on the March: Seattle, Boston and Nashville . Amazon Books debuted at Seattle’s University Village mall in 2015, and has since grown to 19 stores.

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PYMNTS

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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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.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Books and music, for example, are highly digital. We’ll present the award on April 4 at our 2017 Innovation & Insight Day in Boston. And, with two decades of e-commerce, total digital commerce comprised just ten percent of total commerce in 2015. Plenty of consumers still like stores. Not so much for food and beverage.

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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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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. That curiosity was piqued by my walks to the office when I am in town (I live in Beacon Hill in Boston) and my mental counts of the number of Amazon boxes I see out on trash day.

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CB Insights

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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MAY 27, 2016

Located in suburbs of Boston in the three cardinal directions that don’t lead to the Atlantic, the workspaces-within-a-store will range between 2,500 and 3,500 square feet and will feature dedicated areas for quiet and communication-heavy work. 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.

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MAY 13, 2016

Target, on the other hand, has enjoyed some success with its flexible format, urbanite- and millennial-friendly CityTarget locations that first launched in 2012 and have since expanded to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, San Diego and Philadelphia. Successful brick-and-mortar retail strategy = Greek yogurt?

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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. Working in conjunction with artificial intelligence firm IV.AI

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2018

There was a time,” Grandfather will say, “when Amazon sold only books.” That satellite in turn will direct the mechanical warehouse humanoids to start assembling an order for young Johnny and Suzy. He will sit there, expecting some surprised, even awe-soaked response from the grade schoolers. And the frontier will keep expanding.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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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CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

New York, Boston, Chicago, and Nashville, among other cities, all played host to newly minted unicorns last year. Company Description: Circle Internet Financial is a Boston-based cryptocurrency company offering a crypto exchange platform, money transfers, and investment services. Circle Internet Financial. Valuation: $3B.

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JULY 9, 2016

Spring is about renewal, the holiday season is about family and friends, and later winter (in Boston, anyway) is filled with the gnawing anxiety that it might never ever get above 40 degrees Fahrenheit again. Every season has a certain defining characteristic.

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