PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2016

Staples and Office Depot saw months of hard work go up in smoke when their long-expected merger was denied by regulators and both brands had to take long, hard looks in the mirror before deciding how to proceed. For Staples, the answer wasn’t to sulk around for months.

Los Angeles 100

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2017

Boston-based athletic company New Balance has a simple mission: to become the world’s best running brand. Nike and Adidas would also like to be the world’s best running brand, and both are much larger. And those collaborations are even more on display in New Balance’s new brand of physical stores. The Run Hub.

Retail 100

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

Then I went to Whole Foods on the North Shore of Boston Saturday morning to do some grocery shopping. He then asked if I would like information about how to become an Amazon Prime member so that I could take advantage of those deals. It’s about creating the flywheel for the physical store version of the Amazon marketplace.

Retail 156

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

They decide how to extend selected discounts, when to offer them and who to offer them to. The model for the DineVite online and mobile app is actually similar to social media. As the year rolls on he expects to launch in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Boston and Miami.

Miami 130

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

“The plan from our perspective was to create a user experience online first that would enable shoppers to easily customize a piece,” said Royer. The marketing tool that ended up working best for the brand was opening a physical store – and giving customers a change interact with their line of couches.

San Francisco 101

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Germany- and Boston-based Spreadshirt uses data, analytics and even social media information to build a product and spread news among communities while printing more than 3.6 The startup concept was to create and activate an online shop system to sell and share ideas,” said Smoter. million items last year. Greensburg, Penn.;

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AUGUST 18, 2016

That’s become pretty much gospel for brands, retailers and marketers alike. And one of the most valuable forms of data right now is behavioral data because it tells a retailer or brand where a customer or potential customer goes, does and spends their time and money on. In other words, it’s a lot of that uber-valuable type of data.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

As online shopping is showing no signs of slowing down, it has affected shopping malls greatly resulting in less foot traffic alongside less dollars spent in brick-and-mortar locations. To embrace these opportunities, real-estate developers must get closer to consumers and figure out how to meet their evolving wants and needs.

Retail 133

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

Custom algorithms then come into play to begin figuring out how to build customized communications. Boston-based readers know — and likely love — Papa Gino’s, a regional pizza chain that had developed a serious defection problem. They also accelerated the adoption of our new online ordering platform. Redefining Goals .

Los Angeles 100

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PYMNTS

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.

Retail 167

Retail Online Branding Analysis 167

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

They have to organize the group, figure out when everyone is free, what they want to pay for tickets and then how to purchase that block of tickets for the group. The Yankees are an internationally recognized brand, so why would we try to pull them to Fevo’s app?” This person’s life, Daie noted, is full of friction.

Groups 139

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

I said then that the payments and commerce power brokers of 2018 and beyond understand how to use context to monetize consumer intent without compromising their trust, their data and therefore their expectations of the platforms when using them. Those same people would also sit in front of the television to watch their favorite shows.

Google 121

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Biologists wanted to better understand how to keep the human body’s ecosystems from being devastated by disease, so humans could live longer, healthier lives. Some spend much more in cities like Boston, New York and San Francisco. But that’s just one side of the Uber ecosystem. Fleets As The Fuel. Uber Eats users concentrate 53.6

Innovation 146

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

By ordering ahead using their phones, customers are simply applying their online shopping behavior to a new, and very habituated, use case. It’s why consumers default to Amazon when they buy online, and why the eCommerce giant now owns north of 40 percent of all online spend, based on Q3 2017 retail sales data.

Innovation 109

Innovation Payments Google Training 109

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. They want to look at their device and know the balance and pay a bill in real-time, rather than input it online.

Mobile 105

Mobile Community Bank Community Technology 105

William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Credit HQ helps demonstrate to a small business how to start trading. Chip card reader for when customers are shopping online to improve security. Integrate with any online merchant site. Customers can store all of their online profiles in one secure location to improve user experience. Branded version is available. ^KT.

Video 40

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Co-founder James Bello initially worked at the headquarters of a major retail chain, and then moved to Boston to serve in their innovation group. They were then able to figure out how to turn those products into usable food that is healthy for pets to eat and that has functional properties as well.

Millennials 144

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2016

When Godiva wanted to create a digital ad and shopping campaign around Valentine’s Day — probably the busiest shopping season for the chocolate maker — but didn’t have the time or resources to pull it off, it turned to a Boston-based company called Zmags and a tool called Creator. Most retailers struggle.

Meeting 100

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Mobile payments will be how we pay. 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. Technology — not traditional payments companies — will be who leads the way.

Payments 100

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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. In fact, many of them are primitive to the point of being annoying, if you can figure out how to use them in the first place.

Payments 100

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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. For example, if a new CPG brand is trying to figure out how to price its products, it has a fairly routinized problem on its hands.

Strategy 78

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

Playing the field might also depend on the time of the year or how crowded things get at your favorite spot. 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. You’ll exploit known places until you’re forced to explore — and then exploit — new ones.

Retail 100

Retail Study Branding Data 100

PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

But those concerns haven’t stopped consumers from using voice to access these new experiences, because they trust the primary enabler of those voice-enabled purchasing experiences – today that’s Amazon – as well as the underlying payment methods they use to make those purchases, which are network-branded credit and debit cards.

Mobile 205

Mobile Innovation Apple Study 205

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. But I had options: lots of choices for what to buy, places to find information about what to buy, a choice in how to buy it – and an easy way to access those options and choose before my class.

Innovation 170

Innovation US Maine Google 170