PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Worldwide legal cannabis products represented a $55 billion market in 2018, and most analysts estimate that it will have nearly tripled to reach $147 billion by 2025. the domestic market for legal cannabis in 2018 was $9.1 Our trending beauty initiative is a way we are differentiating ourselves from competitors,” D’Angelo noted.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The Staples Connect concept, which offers experiences and solutions as well as a place to transact, debuted in multiple Boston area stores on Feb. Each Staples Connect store also has marketing and technology services, among other offerings. The company works with around 100 brands in total. Mike Motz, CEO of Staples U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

DraftKings already has similar arrangements with three NBA franchises: the Boston Celtics, Indiana Pacers and Philadelphia 76ers. Online sportsbooks and esports wagering — either via apps or websites and even inside some casinos — is bucking the COVID-19 trend with impressive numbers even as real sports are, to a large degree, sidelined.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

This is the third article in a weekly series highlighting trends and themes from Celent’s Model Bank submission process. While this makes the category more difficult to judge, it offers immense insight into what’s happening in the market. Brands are similar and products/ services are frequently cross-sold.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Calculating how long lockdown trendlines can continue before plateauing or falling off is now the fixation of most CEOs and CFOs, as they closely watch the progress of market-makers. Big home improvement merchants and brands want to keep people feathering the nest. million from a year earlier. There are some certainties.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2017

And Boston Dynamics is working on their own robotic delivery system, which it showed off at this past April’s TED 2017 conference. To read the story and for all the latest news and trends from around the Omni space, check out the latest Tracker. Bringing Online to the Real World . About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

According to previous reports, Boston, Dallas-Fort Worth, North Carolina, and Ohio are among the next markets the pharmacy chain is targeting for the growth of HealthHUB in 2020. And news surfaced last year that Walmart was opening a health clinic in Georgia with a deeper move into the market for primary and mental healthcare.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The eCommerce giant has reportedly been in talks with middle market pharmacy benefit managers to arrange a contract. The target market would be the uninsured and customers with high deductibles who pay cash for their prescription drugs. Setting Trends. Amazon may be getting into the mail order pharmacy business. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

Kate Rettker, senior marketing manager and manager of the Protein Bar’s mobile order-ahead process, said the company has tweaked its app design to feature more distinct pops of color and better menu functionality, including adding photography. We’re a dietary-sensitive brand,” said Rettker. Because they are special to us.”.

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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. At the same time, startups are riding the craft spirits, cannabis-infused beverages, and alcohol-free trends, offering innovative products to happy hour drinkers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The weather is turning such that Boston has already had its first snow, and eating outdoors at restaurants is losing its appeal in the northern United States. Because while most readers are undoubtedly familiar with both chocolate milk and Oreos, both brands have gone far, far beyond their original roots.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

That trend continued in the second quarter and looks likely to be a dominant trait in the 2020s, only a few months away. The company has also expanded Starbucks Delivers with the help of Uber Eats, which is in more than 2,700 stores in 11 markets. Starbucks Delivery. To take one example, look at the Starbucks results from Q2.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

As it stands, mobile ordering is available at the chain’s Denver, Boston and Houston locations — and more markets are said to be in the works for this year. To keep tabs on the latest retail trends, check next week’s Retail Pulse. Alternatively, customers can have their food sent straight to their seats in some of the theatres.

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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.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Download the 50-page PDF to explore trends in the US insurance tech ecosystem. More accurate and agile underwriting in light of trends such as distracted driving and ongoing marijuana legislation. “We remain one of the leaders in the young drivers telematics market with strong profitability also.” ” my Driving.

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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.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2017

And the market is showing interest — and investing —in improved mobile tech. The company is working with retailers to design features and experiences that most brick-and-mortar-only brands cannot offer. In one recent effort, the company partnered with Adidas to deliver cleats to athletes as quickly as possible. About the Tracker .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

It’s also a core tenant that I outlined in my January 2018 annual opus on trends that will drive the payments and commerce ecosystem dynamics this year and in the years to come. 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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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

The Good … The really good news about summer for retailers is that the temperature is their ally — well, at least for those retailers in the Northeast, assuming that it warms back up again in Boston (from 92 to 62 in 24 hours is a bit much …). In an average year, the trends are on a merchant’s side.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 2, 2018

One of the biggest trends in fintech today is the rise of digital banking products like mobile checking accounts and new debit cards. See the investment trends, top deals, and active investors in Q2 2018. When users shop at any of the 200+ brands Acorns has partnered with, the brand will provide “cash forward.”

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

While the store is a first for Nike, it’s part of a bigger trend in retail — product and inventory localization. And there’s a lot to gain from this trend: 63% of consumers are interested in personalized recommendations from retailers, according to a recent study. Major retailers and brands go local.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

Recent market research performed by the NPD Group revealed that delivery traffic outside of pizza has expanded by 33 percent since 2012. Also, Mintel’s Foodservice Trends 2016 report found that 77 percent of Americans said they would use online food delivery services. We need to be an extension of our partners’ service and brand.”.

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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. See sidebar “Is Mobile Fully Catching On?”.).

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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. For the past four-plus years, Chesler has guided Glacier through continued growth and successful acquisitions across the West, all while staying true to Glacier’s local market culture. THE INDUSTRY TREND AWARDS.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

To serve those core areas, Fuse creates products, services, and tools that help solve complex healthcare problems and anticipate future healthcare trends. Innovation centers across the globe in Boston, London, California, and Shanghai serve as regional hubs that can connect with local entrepreneurs, scientists, and technologies.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2016

“The idea of curbside pickup is that shoppers are demanding the ability to get purchases however they want and wherever they want,” said Laura Kennedy, director of retail insights at Boston-based Kantar Retail. “A

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Banking 2020

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Regardless of how and why they hit the market, some technology-driven innovations seem to lend themselves to particular vertical markets and/or disciplines. Revolutionizing every aspect of sales and marketing in the process? The regular drumbeat of stories about data breaches at brand-name retail chains probably doesn’t help.).

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

“You want to get into as many use cases as possible,” said Greg Weed, director of card performance research at Phoenix Marketing International. In London too, Apple Pay works on the Underground, buses and trains, and the company is keen to serve Boston, New York and other cities with tap-and-pay mobile services.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

2019 FOOD & BEVERAGE TRENDS TO WATCH. Download our Food & Beverage Trends report for a data-driven look at the future of food. The perception that millennials are averse to anything prep-intensive fits neatly into the narrative around other high-profile “millennial trends.” Casual dining.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The Paytronix platform, used by more than 400 restaurants and other types of merchants to personally engage with customers, collaborated with PYMNTS on a recent deep dive into restaurant innovation and trends. restaurant market. Boston Market, for instance, is among the restaurant brands making their first forays into loyalty rewards.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

But there’s no question that the way these institutions function has shifted, pushed along especially by the financial crisis and technology trends. And perhaps the trend that’s had the biggest impact — some big companies are electing not to go public at all. Some have adapted and gone on to post record profits. Table of contents.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

In fact, a whole host of traditional retailers are bucking this trend — many planning to open hundreds of stores in 2018. 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

AUGUST 3, 2017

In a post on the USV blog , the firm noted that Flip is a market specific network in which “closing the loop of a transaction” – in this case, the sale or sublet of a lease – unlocks a network effect of benefits for users (ostensibly by making the lease-exchange market more fluid and data-driven with each transaction).

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

Future of Cybersecurity: Trends & Startups To Watch. 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. Future of Cybersecurity: Trends & Startups To Watch. Table of contents.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

11:37 am William Mills, CEO of William Mills Agency, and Stephen Ramirez, CEO of Beyond the Arc, discuss major trends presented at this year’s Finovate and highlight key companies such as Malauzai Software, PayActiv and many more! What’s the market strategy? Branded version is available. ^KT. Who is the target audience?

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

Instead, new millennial-inspired and tech-infused dining trends have been emerging across the US and internationally. Many of yesterday’s casual dining brands are dying, but not because millennials “don’t eat out.” Vegan fast casual: By Chloe (NYC, Boston, LA, Providence, London). Dining out. table of contents.

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NCR

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The growth of mobile banking over the last few years is a trend that should put the technology at the heart of every financial institution’s strategy. This is a message that US banks appear to be hearing loud and clear, at least according to the findings of a recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

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