PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

After cherished Boston dining spot, Stella, closed its doors due to pandemic losses, chef and owner Evan Deluty couldn’t let the dream die — or his heavenly preparations disappear — and has reinvented Stella as a gourmet food truck. In New York City, still considered the epicenter of COVID infection in the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

16) that it’s signed an exclusive multiyear arrangement with the New York Giants NFL team, making DraftKings the franchise’s “official sports betting, iGaming and daily fantasy operator.” DraftKings already has similar arrangements with three NBA franchises: the Boston Celtics, Indiana Pacers and Philadelphia 76ers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

This year’s newest innovation? largest eCommerce marketplace is that it can devalue merchants and entire brands by overly discounting their items. Seasonal sales, twinkling lights and Santas for photo-ops everywhere you turn. For retailers, it’s the Hunger Games.

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JUNE 20, 2019

To meet this rising demand, QSRs are tapping into ordering interfaces built into cars and reconstructing stores to make for smoother mobile pickup — along with other innovations. From Chipotle Mexican Grill to Square , QSRs and payment firms alike are enabling a world of ordering innovation.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

Work, she noted, that starting next month will soon change the lives of millions of commuters nationwide, starting in New York City – and will give card issuers greater opportunity to stay at the top of consumers’ wallets. Building New Consumer Habits. Riding the Inflection Point. Contactless technology in the U.S.,

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MAY 4, 2016

Uber has shown that it’s far from shy about putting its brand alongside other ventures, and it’s recently demonstrated propensity for non-automotive transport is an indication that innovators there don’t lack the spine to take some risks when necessary. We’re excited to partner with Visa on this initiative.”.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The marketing tool that ended up working best for the brand was opening a physical store — and giving customers a chance to interact with their line of couches. Today, Interior Define has opened several new guide shop locations in New York, LA, San Francisco, Austin and Boston. “We

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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. is nothing new. Innovation by Any Other Name.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

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. Today, Interior Define has opened several new guide shop locations in New York, LA, San Francisco, Austin and Boston. “We

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JULY 30, 2019

That said, mobile order-ahead apps — as can be the case generally when comes to many types of retail innovations — have lower adoption among smaller QSRs. More than 400 Dunkin’ restaurants throughout New York City’s five boroughs are now offering delivery through Seamless, Grubhub’s New York brand.

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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.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

Restaurants like Chipotle and Shake Shack are fast-tracking new, drive-thru-focused concept restaurants to meet this demand, eschewing dining rooms entirely in favor of to-go orders.”. cities, including Boston, Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C.”. Mobile Is Making It Work.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Store count isn’t everything,” CEO Suzanne Greco told The Boston Globe. As a high-profile American brand, Subway may have some luck with its plans for international expansion — it plans to open more than 1,000 locations abroad this year — but it appears that America has already moved on. In Other Brick-And-Mortar News….

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Dunkin’ is one of the most widespread quick-service restaurants (QSR) brands in the world, selling coffee, donuts and breakfast items at more than 11,300 locations in 36 countries, including 8,500 restaurants across the United States. We’re still early in that journey,” she said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

As PYMNTS is Boston-based, the company is, of course, excited to see Tom Brady take a shot at that sixth Super Bowl ring. CBS rejected a proposed one-minute ad (that potentially would have cost over $10 million) from Acreage Holdings, a New York-based medical marijuana company. We in Boston hope for it to be our sixth!

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CB Insights

JULY 9, 2018

Whether you call it happy hour, apéro, or aperitivo, the couple of hours right after work and before dinner is a key drinking occasion for major alcohol brands. Many major food companies have begun to invest in e-commerce, healthier product options, new corporate venture funds, and other tools, but is it enough? Craft Spirits Brands.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2017

A manual published in the late 1800s for New York City school teachers may not seem like a likely source of favored conventional wisdom. 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. So what does the 2.0

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. The hope is that the brand/experience convo will lure in customers and keep them buying. Their retail experience needs a bit of reinventing , and she did that for the iconic brand when she joined them. You want to know what really sizzled this week? Burberry, Ms.

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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. I’ll leave the political and public policy discourse to others. Good luck with that.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

.” The company operates six permanent and two temporary locations in the New York City area, as well as one at Disney’s BoardWalk Inn in Orlando, Florida. MiniLuxe is a nail and beauty lifestyle lounge with locations in Dallas, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, and Boston. Select VC Investors: Breakaway Innovation Group.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. CAP COM and SEFCU in New York come to together to create an $8 billion cooperative organization. The most important aspect of this deal is Huntington. Credit Union Merger of the Year. 82% to over 2.3%

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Learn about the technologies, innovations, and strategies that retailers can leverage during the holidays. 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., First Name.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Almost 33 years ago, David Letterman introduced his singular innovation in stand-up comedy: the Top 10 List. However, MoneyGram CEO Alex Holmes noted that they can also send that cash to a bank account associated with their Visa-branded debit card or load it onto a Visa-branded prepaid card. and more restrictions.

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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.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

Northeastern cities like New York and Boston with an incredible and nearly unexpected force, a bit like a tsunami that surged and almost overnight washed away the entire cultural practice of eating out. The global Covid-19 pandemic hit the restaurant industry in U.S.

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AUGUST 3, 2017

Traction : USV says 15,000 people have listed rooms, apartments or houses on the Flip marketplace since 2016, and over 50,000 people have used it to search for homes in three markets so far (New York, LA, and San Francisco). Frankel also sees the startup’s location in Boston as giving them an “unfair advantage” in talent acquisition.

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MARCH 27, 2019

And because it’s so valuable — and not well understood — the scope of exactly what the big tech brands have been collecting is only recently being recognized by the general public. is a Boston-based startup that verifies government-issued IDs for third-party businesses. Confirm.io

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APRIL 4, 2016

I argued that making buying seamless inside of environments that consumers used regularly for other reasons would drive innovation for those environments —and for the third parties that enabled those new commerce experiences. This capability is as disruptive as it is innovative. Third on that list was “contextual commerce.”.

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JULY 17, 2018

New restaurant concepts are redefining how we think about food, pushing established brands to reinvent themselves, spurring entrepreneurs to be creative with visual platforms like Instagram and recipes like pea-based protein, and paving a new way forward for the idea of casual dining itself. table of contents.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The percentage of sales lost by those physical store franchises can be seen not only in the pretty charts and graphs that we produce and share on a regular basis but the ongoing drumbeat of the national and regional store closings for those brands that can no longer keep up. There weren’t easy ways to innovate retail business models.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

With CVS’ Boston-based innovation lab working to push CVS in the direction of a cutting-edge health care company, there may be a lot more technology to come – and soon. CVS Pay is currently available in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, and will be nationwide later in 2016.

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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. Circuit of Appeals in New York. Seriously a Sizzle!

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

They are a diverse group of players, ranging from automotive industry stalwarts to leading technology brands and telecommunications companies. A few of the companies or brands listed below belong to the same parent organization, but are detailed separately if they are operating distinct autonomous development programs.

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

How they describe their product/innovation: Project Finance is a personal finance application that shows users the future of their finances based on all the choices and decisions they’re making today. HQ: Boston, MA. In today’s world there is uncertainty around many things, your finances don’t have to be one of them. Key Executives.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Repurposing the physical store: Retailers are finding new ways to drive value from physical retail beyond sales per square foot. We look into how stores are being transformed into showrooms, community gathering spots, and even event spaces as retailers leverage the physical store as tool for brand marketing.

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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. State of Innovation Report. It was a genuinely innovative insight into allocating capital, dressed up as a 2×2.

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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. Margaret Mead’s mother, Emily Fogg Mead, wrote in 1901 that department stores and the consumer’s thirst for consumption drove the invention of entirely new products.

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