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JUNE 2, 2020

Caplan said the goal of the new program, called Alibaba.com Payment Terms, is to “get both sellers and buyers quickly set up for success and provide the critical tools and services that are required for growth. Beauty , a makeup and beauty products retailer. “Ultimately, our goal is to give SMBs even greater access to the $23.9

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JANUARY 25, 2019

In a recent trend, eCommerce mattress brands have been moving into the world of brick-and-mortar retail by opening their own stores and pop-up shops to help let customers test-drive their products in real life. At the stores, customers will be able to choose to take their mattresses from the store or have them delivered.

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JUNE 6, 2019

Skirting Cash Shortages at Boston Pride. Boston’s pride celebration is one of the season’s biggest events for Mandy Roberge, the owner and artist behind Wicked Good Henna. The 2018 Boston Pride parade reportedly saw more than 750,000 spectators and over 55,000 marchers. Her needs are relatively simple.

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MAY 27, 2016

Omnicommerce usually refers to where and how retailers sell their products, not necessarily who they choose to sell them with. 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. Staples Will Sell You A Desk — Or Let You Share One.

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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.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Today in the payments news roundup, FinTech startup Brex is launching a business cash management account to take the place of traditional business bank accounts. Goldman reportedly wants to keep expanding retail offerings and raising revenue, while Saga wants to become more competitive in regards to savings offerings.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Berger’s ambition is to for Marie Claire to be the brand that curates an experience for women that is about discovering the “ Next Big Thing ” at the intersection at fashion, beauty, content and technology as women go about their day – making it, as Berger told Webster, experiential and real. The Marie Claire Customer.

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AUGUST 3, 2017

Are shopping malls doomed to fall by the wayside along with retail trends of the past? This year, Boston Retail Partners principal analyst Ken Morris shared his thoughts with Glossy on the closing department stores and what’s happening as a result. Not quite yet. But what’s interesting is what’s happening to the good malls.

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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. The two brands first started working together in 2015. At NFL events and shops, there will be an MVP checkout lane that encourages cashless payment, whether it’s through a card or a wearable. Snack Time.

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MAY 18, 2017

From responsive mobile websites to on-demand offerings, consumers are increasingly demanding that retailers, both online and in the real world, cater to their needs in the moment. . And Boston Dynamics is working on their own robotic delivery system, which it showed off at this past April’s TED 2017 conference. On-Demand Days .

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. One hundred and ten (110) million U.S. consumers — 47.2

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

For retailers, it’s the Hunger Games. largest eCommerce marketplace is that it can devalue merchants and entire brands by overly discounting their items. The move comes as Amazon is making changes in other areas of its sprawling retail business. For consumers, the holiday shopping season is the most wonderful time of year.

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JULY 16, 2018

It’s Boston. It’s February (or maybe it’s May, because it’s still snowing in Boston). So much so that P97 will go live this week with one of the largest fuel retailers in the United States, across 10,000 U.S. The firms are eyeing a confluence of mobile commerce, digital marketing and ease of payments. Picture this.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

The latest news on mobile payments shows that the big banks are wanting in on the mobile wallet race, but are they already too far back in the pack? Here’s the latest news on the mobile + payments + commerce front. Miami Transportation To Offer Mobile Payments. Miami Transportation To Offer Mobile Payments.

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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. And it will be a lot more than just 10 cents. The Ban on the Ban.

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

NanoPay is finding that for mobile payments to take off, even among early adopters, using a phone to pay must be much more rewarding and convenient than tapping a card. Korean consumers see no evil in mobile payments. The statistics get even better as the daily average number of mobile payments increased almost 83 percent to 810,000.

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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 payments and commerce this week, a fall chill also rolled through. Gift Cards’ New Unfavorable Fans.

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APRIL 11, 2018

The expansion into the Nordic region is just one part of the fast-food chain’s plans to boost sales and build brand loyalty. The company has also tried some interesting promotions , such as last year’s “Big Mac ATM” in Boston, which dispensed two new sizes of burger — the Mac Jr. same-store sales were down 1.3

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JANUARY 6, 2018

Boston and the areas surrounding New York didn’t get quite as lucky and were actually buried under more than a foot of snow, but the damage was done. Boston, in its ongoing quest to suffer more than any other American city in the winter, didn’t just have more than a foot of snow and more than 50-mile-an-hour winds. The Expected Costs.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

People were not lovin’ it, for instance, when McDonald’s installed self-service kiosks in about 9,000 locations — with no cash payment option — leaving about 8.5 Loyalty is the real prize, and smart brands have gotten out in front of the challenge. million cash customers hungry. fast food customers pay exclusively with cash.

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JANUARY 15, 2018

It also explains why some innovations in payments have been met with open arms by consumers and others given the cold shoulder. And why advances in the field of voice and visual, particularly when applied to authentication, are poised to become such a disruptive force across the payments and commerce landscape. Here’s why.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Early accounts seem to indicate that the just-launched Apple -branded credit card is finding its way into customers’ hands, and into heavy use. The fee-free card is Goldman Sachs’ latest inroad into the retail consumer business after establishing its online Marcus brand in 2016, which makes unsecured personal loans.

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JULY 25, 2018

Amid the headline numbers, the company has noted that average order sizes were up 3 percent year over year, with a boost in mix across all brands served. That increase in revenue per order comes absent increased support costs for those orders. LevelUp processes about 100,000 orders a day, as noted on the call.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

And this, as Karen Webster noted in a recent commentary, is where payments players have an opportunity to help push a vaccine by creating richer incentives to get it. “If The retailer has made the Walmart app more Rx-friendly, opening express lanes in stores to reduce the amount of time people spend waiting in lines for refills.

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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 We automate complex payment and tax regulations in over 180 countries and offer a variety of payment checkout options,” said Smoter. Greensburg, Penn.;

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Put on a Retail Happy Face. Yup, physical retail is doing just fine — despite all the talk of doom and gloom. Yet, according to Fung Global Retail & Technology, 6,985 stores closed in 2017 , up 229 percent from 2016, and well above the number of stores which closed in the year that started physical retail’s death spiral: 2008.

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MARCH 11, 2016

According to its survey of 507 vendors of merchant processing systems, Apple Pay is the most requested mobile digital payments service among retailers. According to the recently released figures, 44 percent of those vendors’ customers are using, or have asked about using, mobile digital payment systems.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Rolling out delivery, curbside pick-up, expanded prepared food offerings, better payments options, richer loyalty rewards and price slashing have all become increasingly common maneuvers as the wide variety of competitors big and small are working overtime to capture the vast amounts of customer spend up for grabs in grocery annually.

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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. percent of all retail sales to 6.4 percent of retail sales and 50 percent of all eCommerce sales.

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JUNE 9, 2017

It’s got a new mobile app, new theme colors, new payment options and even a new name — the “Kitchen” was added recently to emphasize the quality, healthy ingredients in every meal. 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.

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JUNE 20, 2019

From Chipotle Mexican Grill to Square , QSRs and payment firms alike are enabling a world of ordering innovation. And payments firms are helping restaurants with mobile orders: Square, for instance, is releasing new order management integrations for Square for Restaurants.

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MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. As for payments, here are this week’s picks and pans. Apple’s first retail store overhaul in 15 years is hailed by just about everyone as a Grand Slam Home Run – and the store hasn’t even opened yet (it will, in SF, on Saturday). You want to know what really sizzled this week?

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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. Mobile-Order Ahead.

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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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JUNE 21, 2014

I had the pleasure of speaking at NextBankUSA in Boston the other week on the Future of Payments, as I see them. The crux of my presentation being… “Chip and PIN” had no idea that they would inadvertently launch “Fish and Cushion” and that goes for the payments industry as a whole. The retail experience does.

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APRIL 20, 2017

Annoyed to the point of swearing them off for good: “Shopping with a bot is tedious — it takes 20 exchanges to finally get a link to a just-OK pair of black pumps that you have to then go outside the bot to the retailer site to buy. Trying to book a trip on Hipmunk seems primitive to the point of being useless. So what does the 2.0

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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. The handwritten invoice he left with my cushions included his name, his mobile phone number and the payment methods he accepted: cash or check. He delivered my cushions, as promised, about a month ago.

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