PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Pharmacy operator CVS , for example, experimented with a program in Boston in which shoppers received free delivery on prescriptions and eCommerce purchases as well as other perks. The program, which is dubbed CarePass, also includes access to a pharmacy helpline, a discount on CVS branded products and a monthly coupon.

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PYMNTS

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

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

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. “[Our

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Banking 2020

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Articles via USA Today, Payments Today, The Financial Brand and Bloomberg. financial institution in history, stealing personal information of more than 100 million people. This article explores the different security measures users can take in order to protect their information.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

The new app is powered by LevelUp , a mobile payments platform created by Boston startup SCVNGR and the force behind PYMNTS’ mobile order-ahead tracker. The app features mobile payments, nutrition information, rewards and in-app ordering — including the critical option to customize anything. Because they are special to us.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

The release also noted, “Additionally, restaurants will have a simplified look into their in-store, online, and delivery orders all in one unified location.”. Over 400 Dunkin’ restaurants throughout the five boroughs of New York City are now offering delivery through Seamless, Grubhub’s New York brand.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

To serve customers who want to shop in stores and online, retailers and solution providers are working to offer a unified retail experience across multiple channels. In some cases, brands like Loblaw and Nike are letting shoppers use their mobile phones to pay for their purchases at their physical stores. Roche Bros.

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Cisco

MAY 29, 2019

According to JD Power, “Nearly 90% of retail banking customers who are highly satisfied with the advice provided by their financial institution say they “definitely will” reuse their bank or credit union for another product” (The Financial Brand). And those abandonment rates? Ultimately, customers want to be known and valued.

Customer Experience 72

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

Finding the customers is a matter of plugging the the subscription-based marketing platform directly into its retail partner store’s point-of-sale system and letting it go to work pulling customer information into a unified CRM database. They also accelerated the adoption of our new online ordering platform. Redefining Goals .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

fans traveling to Boston for the start of the World Series will want to pack — and possibly purchase for the first time — sweaters, as this week will be an excellent opportunity to enjoy New England’s crisp fall weather. In fact, they have favored brands, with iTunes and Google Play cards popular favorites. billion in assets and $11.3

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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

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2018

It’s Boston. It’s February (or maybe it’s May, because it’s still snowing in Boston). With AI, he surmised, “not only can we know when they wash their car, but … let’s just say that they went online and bought their movie tickets. Picture this. It’s snowing. A driver has to pull over and get gas.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Building trust in your institution has a lot to do with technology, from implementing strong data security practices to humanizing your online customer interactions. But for most community banks, building a trustworthy brand isn’t a conscious effort. “I Security information and event management (SIEM).

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Cisco

MAY 29, 2019

According to JD Power, “Nearly 90% of retail banking customers who are highly satisfied with the advice provided by their financial institution say they “definitely will” reuse their bank or credit union for another product” (The Financial Brand). And those abandonment rates? Ultimately, customers want to be known and valued.

Customer Experience 48

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2016

Sophisticated cybercriminals have also used botnets to release denial of service attacks on sites and steal personal information, including bank account numbers. 1 source of online fraud. Hey brand, want a better way to engage with your customer? Remember ZeuS ? Find a developer and let them grab Messenger’s bot API.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Funding and investor information is as of 9/6/17. . 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.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

On those content-filled pages were advertisements hoping to catch the consumer’s eye, build a brand and influence a purchase. About every seven or so minutes, there was a commercial break in which ads were inserted with the same ambition — build a brand and drive a buy. And not, it seems, to enable commerce.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

When Sephora announced the launch of a new 2,000-square-foot concept store in Boston last year , it unveiled a marriage of brick-and-mortar and digital: The store allowed customers the ability to order products in-store from the Sephora website, and it announced same-day pickup through its Sephora app, too.

Retail 109

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Based in New York, the business is now in seven other cities — Boston, Washington, D.C., You go online and give us really simple information about your home. We take the information you give us and plug it into our algorithm, which probably has thousands of data points. How does Paintzen work in terms of the interface?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2017

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. I have a question about a pending charge” provides information about different types of pending charges. At least that response only took a few seconds to get.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

At the rate so many once-solitary brands are shacking up with other companies, though, maybe the definition of the term needs to be widened a bit. That subtle checkout conversion mission is still ongoing, but now, Affirm is branching out beyond the regular confines of in-store and online retail. eBay’s Virtual Future.

Retail 100

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then. Additionally, many of these physical retailers have lost the cache they once had as new direct-to-consumer brands with a hyper-focus on specific products have taken off.

Retail 78

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

This solution will make it easier for receivers in those markets to receive and use funds instantly (via their bank-issued Visa-branded debit card or Visa-branded prepaid card), and senders may choose the option by which to send those funds. In December of 2017, Even went live and online for 1.4 million Walmart employees.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I hosted a digital discussion last week with an executive from Sift with more than 15 years of experience building trust and safety organizations for some of the biggest digital brands in the world – including Google , Facebook and Square. Good luck with that. Some consumers will take the bait, of course, but most won’t.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Notable projects: The Mayo Clinic OB Nest explores ways for women with low-risk pregnancies to reduce the number of their in-person doctor visits through a combination of dedicated nurses, a special online community, and in-home monitoring. Boston Children’s Hospital — Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA). Founded: 2014.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Salsify , a startup that helps companies and their brands “win on the digital shelf,” has just raised another $155 million as it doubles down on product development and expands globally. 23) that they have closed on a deal with the Boston-based software and eCommerce company for $155 million in a Series E round of financing.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

Also, Mintel’s Foodservice Trends 2016 report found that 77 percent of Americans said they would use online food delivery services. According to Mintel, one-third of online delivery users would even be willing to accept higher delivery fees if it meant receiving their food faster. That’s a hearty slice of the delivery pie.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

This summer, Nike unveiled its latest brick-and-mortar venture in Los Angeles: Nike by Melrose, a physical store that uses local online shopping data to determine its in-store inventory. Major retailers and brands go local. According to CEO Brian Cornell: “In urban markets like New York or Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and D.C.,

Retail 64

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

Their study concluded that routines are shaped by how the brain’s neurons process information about the cost and benefit of switching things up – or not, and sticking with the status quo. By ordering ahead using their phones, customers are simply applying their online shopping behavior to a new, and very habituated, use case.

Innovation 109

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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. Epperson, technology consultant.

Mobile 105

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

It adds a layer of connectivity between accounts that enables users to explore scenarios and tradeoffs — using their actual account data and information — and provides advice and guidance around the most optimal actions they can take with their money. HQ: Boston, MA. Website: projectfinance.io. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/11180527.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Boston Market, for instance, is among the restaurant brands making their first forays into loyalty rewards. The program offers online and mobile customers one loyalty point for every dollar spent at the restaurant. Investing in AI technology that really makes a difference to the brand,” Ridgely said. The main problem?

Data 134

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Chip card reader for when customers are shopping online to improve security. Integrate with any online merchant site. Verifies the card and pushes that information onto the merchant. Customers can store all of their online profiles in one secure location to improve user experience. Branded version is available. ^KT.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Lots of brands include exotic-sounding ingredients, the report notes, not in such small amounts that they likely have no nutritional impact. Once on site, consumers create a profile for their dogs including information like age, breed, weight and activity level. It is also food that some owners might seriously consider tasting.

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PYMNTS

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. Who in the world ever thought that there’d come a day when groceries would be bought online ?

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