PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2018

It’s Boston. It’s February (or maybe it’s May, because it’s still snowing in Boston). And these merchants and retailers are recognizing that, over the course of the next two to three years, that $400 billion is going to inflate to something like $1.2 Picture this. It’s snowing. A driver has to pull over and get gas. trillion.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. Her proposed course of action is likely to deliver anything but more uncertainty. The hope is that the brand/experience convo will lure in customers and keep them buying. But they, like so many storied retail brands, are going through a bit of a spiraling down.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Decomposers are the ecosystem wild card. These ever-present wild cards can tip the balance of an ecosystem one way or the other — sometimes by working quietly under the surface for long periods of time to fortify its health and keep the balance intact. Some spend much more in cities like Boston, New York and San Francisco.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

Over the course of the experiment, through a series of 1,000 daily tasks, the researchers changed how the white and green dots were presented to the monkeys. Of course, we’ve seen evidence of this hard-wired behavior play out in our own payments and commerce stomping grounds over the years.

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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. Follain is a healthy beauty store with locations in Boston, Washington DC, and Nantucket. The company sells teas, brewing pots, and storage items, as well as greeting cards and stationery. Paper & Tea. Let’s Ride.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

What CVS says is unique about CVS Pay (clearly not the name) is that it enables HSA and other co-pay information to be stored in the app so that the proper amount is charged to the user’s registered card at checkout. Its pitch to the family is to use their local Mastercard branded credit or debit card to make those payments.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

The bit obviously needed some refining, which it got over the course of the next 30 years while “Late Night” and the “Late Show” were on the air. All of this was coincident with reports of widespread app outages, with MoviePass running out of money and taking a short-term, high-interest loan just to fund member purchasing cards.

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APRIL 16, 2018

That Mark Zuckerberg showed remarkable restraint in the face of being asked, repeatedly, over the course of two days and 10 hours, questions that highlighted that lack of understanding. On those content-filled pages were advertisements hoping to catch the consumer’s eye, build a brand and influence a purchase.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. s entry into the payments business with Apple Pay. Fees follow. Ever stand behind anyone trying to use mobile pay?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

This small business is a really small business: a guy working out of a teeny tiny storefront in a little town north of Boston. Like many small businesses (SMBs), he doesn’t accept cards. Ubiquity, of course, is payments nirvana. It’s why Visa and Mastercard are such powerful global brands. The Dislike of the Unknown.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

Why do mobile payment users choose another method if they have taken the trouble to load their card data? There is a difference in the choice of debit or credit card as a funding source among users. Meanwhile, only 44 percent of Apple Pay users prefer to use a debit card as a funding source and 50 percent use a credit card.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

But for most community banks, building a trustworthy brand isn’t a conscious effort. Once, before a holiday weekend, a customer messaged the bank to say that her ATM card wasn’t working. People used to say, ‘It’s not the crime; it’s the cover-up,’” says Seth Berman, a partner at Nutter, McClennen & Fish LLP in Boston.

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APRIL 4, 2016

An app with a card on file, Uber, as all of us who are addicted to it know, requires no intervention on the part of the consumer to pay and tip the driver. Cards on file are charged once the rider’s destination has been reached and the consumer left the vehicle. This capability is as disruptive as it is innovative.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

What we will say is that fun times with family, the dazzling display of fireworks and the perfunctory cookouts and beach time, truly and totally make this upcoming weekend one very big sizzle wrapped around what appears to be in Boston, at least, abundant doses of sunshine. Peace Among Merchants and Card Networks. Seriously a Sizzle!

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

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. Shift Number One | The Shift To Buying Online.

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Payments Online Mobile Retail 100

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Of course, business openings are just one part of this story: Business exits (AKA failures) are the flip side of that small business coin — and where those same dismal scientists say there’s even more cause for concern. And that trend line really hasn’t reversed course all that much since then.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Of course, those aren’t dollars that are lost forever; someone gets the benefit of those sales. It could aggregate payments cards, loyalty cards, store coupons, and maybe even convert a consumer’s physical identity into something digital so that a consumer could literally leave home without her wallet.

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Retail Payments Online Mobile 90

CB Insights

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. There were great, successful companies. Those companies made plans. ” —Walter Kiechel.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

If you’re a chipmunk in Boston, you might not want to venture far or even stay out a long time when the weather is cold or snowy. Which might mean not even investing a ton of time and money trying to steal customers away from the stores they’ve shown a strong loyal brand preference for by plying them with big discounts or incentives.

Retail 100

Retail Study Branding Data 100

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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. How about Facebook gift cards? There’s no question that the world’s weather patterns are undergoing a massive change. A slam dunk for Facebook, right?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

This is, of course, a mere four years after voice-activated devices were officially introduced by Amazon and Alexa through the Echo device. Google, with Google Assistant, recognizes this shift, too, and is making its own moves in the space with branded devices and integrations with consumer product brands. are now EMV-compliant.

Mobile 205

Mobile Innovation Apple Study 205

PYMNTS

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.

Online 128

Online Google Branding Retail 128

PYMNTS

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.

Online 112

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PYMNTS

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. Of course, there are some serious issues with the Starcourt Mall specifically, but I don’t want to spoil the season for those who haven’t yet binged.).

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