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. how retailers can survive (and thrive) this holiday season. Learn about the technologies, innovations, and strategies that retailers can leverage during the holidays. Major retailers and brands go local.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Retailers are aiming to help consumers manage chronic diseases as well as their overall health and wellness through new brick-and-mortar experiences. Through HealthHUBs, consumers are at the center of an unmatched retail health experience. CVS Health, however, is not the only retailer to bolster its health offerings.

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Cisco

MAY 29, 2019

In retail banking, it’s clear customer experience matters, and the stakes have never been higher. And it’s not just about happy customers… Boston Consulting Group data indicates personalizing customer journeys can lead to a 10-30% increase in revenue. Opportunity #1: When opening a new account. And those abandonment rates?

Customer Experience 72

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. 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.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Founded in 2007, the Dublin-based Clavis Insight has been focusing in on eCommerce for the past three years, said Danny Silverman, head of product strategy. Our solution is oriented toward brand manufacturers who are looking to monitor their brands’ product listings in the online marketplace,” said Silverman. “Our

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JUNE 1, 2016

Wayfair, an online home furnishing retailer, is launching a home-grown display display advertising platform to improve consumer targeting through customized messaging. Magellan’s launch comes as the Boston-based company looks into investing in building technologies that can enhance its marketing intelligence.

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Cisco

MAY 29, 2019

In retail banking, it’s clear customer experience matters, and the stakes have never been higher. And it’s not just about happy customers… Boston Consulting Group data indicates personalizing customer journeys can lead to a 10-30% increase in revenue. Opportunity #1: When opening a new account. And those abandonment rates?

Customer Experience 48

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

To have their foot scanned in a retail environment, for example, consumers might not be comfortable standing on a machine that has been used by many other customers. Unlike more traditional brands, Wiivv doesn’t have inventory. In contrast, other retailers might buy a large inventory and hope they can sell it all.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

The loyal customer is increasingly the holy grail of retail — everyone wants to create them, but in an environment littered with discounts, digital offers and competing influence, holding a customer’s attention is not exactly easy work. That is the lowest for any vertical in retail. Which is where Bridg enters the picture.

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Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 11, 2014

According to a 2012 Boston College Center for Retirement Research study , 63% of American males (why only males I do not know) participated exclusively in defined contribution (DC) retirement plans in 2007, up from 47% in 1992. Can we brand ourselves as the trusted advisor in our communities? Probably not.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

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. According to a recent pilot study at a pediatric hematology clinic at Boston Medical Center, ridesharing services reduced the clinic's no-show rate by 8.5 percentage points.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As internet retailers are expanding their operations into brick-and-mortar operations (think Warby Parker, Argent, Bonobos, and BaubleBar ), venture capitalists are also investing in “physical-first” startups focused on creating new brick-and-mortar business models. New Frontiers in Retail Tech. How will we shop in 2020?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

At the same time, he noted that they increase speed of service, access, and convenience for the restaurant’s guests while also driving digital sales and building more love for the brand. 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 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.

Cards 169

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Banking 2020

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

There are lessons to be learned from experiences in retail. Well, there’s no doubt about this one: retail. Yes, retail for sure—a quick search online turns up hundreds of stories about retail omni-channel. In fact, 38% of retailers say this is a top priority. Wearable technologies? Social channels?

Retail 40

Retail Strategy Boston Industry 40

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

We know the customer buying and use of financial services is being fundamentally changed by fintech, but our long-term strategies to invest/partner/buy/compete are very much works in progress. This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. The Bank That Gets Fintech.

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Javelin Strategy & Research

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. I crack myself up. , Amazon has been tinkering away with relentlessly removing friction from not just payments, but the entire retail experience. The retail experience does. What can I say?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

London transportation that accepts Oyster will support mobile payments of up to £30 only, and for larger amounts, users can use Vodafone Pay at retailers, which requires a PIN. According to Media and Services UX, (MSX) group at Strategy Analytics, three-quarters of mobile payment users in China do so in physical stores daily.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. However, this isn’t the whole story.

Retail 59

Retail Trends Technology Branding 59

PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2018

It’s a tall order for a Boston-based furniture company – but Wayfair has always thought big, even when it was very, very small. So small, in fact, that when it first started in 2002, the entire operation fit easily into the spare bedroom of Co-founder Steve Conine’s Boston home. As of today, that one-room idea has grown to $6.6

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The move, according to CVS CEO Larry Merlo, will change the face of the CVS brand going forward, as it moves to take a more active and avid approach to influencing better health outcomes while at the same time reducing healthcare costs across the board. Merlos called out CVS’s 2014 $2.1

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Virtual reality – Where your can see your investment plan and strategy visually and interactive. Portfolio outlooks, recommendation.Provide retail and advisory users the insight they need with Polly Portfolio. If you have a large retail investor base, and no resources to interact with them, then perhaps there some value? ^SR.

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CB Insights

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. Americans dine out more than ever before.

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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.

Mobile 72

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PYMNTS

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. But the most effective strategy for getting credentials registered was the launch in 2014 of its digital P2P scheme: Red Envelopes.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

It was buying them as part of a long-term strategy. Goldman Sachs is reportedly preparing to launch a digital wealth product, potentially in the form of a robo-advisor, under the Marcus brand, which has previously focused on high interest savings accounts and personal loans.

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), through financial institutions. HQ: Boston, MA. Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms. Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B). HQ: Boston, MA. Website: projectfinance.io.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Online retailers will be where we shop. I believe that this inflection point will accelerate the four big shifts that have been taking place right before our very eyes over the last decade — shifts that will now set the course for how every single player in payments and commerce and retail should be planning their 2017 and beyond.

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Payments Online Mobile Retail 100

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

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

And though Publix has closely guarded its turf – particularly in its home state of Florida – in 2015, Safeway took over three Albertsons stores and poured $30 million in bringing the West Coast brand to Publix country. It didn’t work out so well, noted Jeff Green, a partner at retail real estate firm Hoffman Strategy Group.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The modern-day department store, the intermediary that’s aggregated brands and buyers in a single physical location for more than 160 years, and the modern-day shopping mall, which has done the same for the last six decades, has steadily lost foot traffic, sales and profits to online competitors since about 2010.

Online 128

Online Google Branding Retail 128

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The modern-day department store, the intermediary that’s aggregated brands and buyers in a single physical location for more than 160 years, and the modern-day shopping mall, which has done the same for the last six decades, has steadily lost foot traffic, sales and profits to online competitors since about 2010.

Online 112

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