PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Consumers can interact with a selection of curated goods using technology that the publisher believes will power the next generation of the omnichannel retail experience. Since Marie Claire is working with Neiman Marcus as its retail partner, they are styling outfits that fit into those three segments. The Marie Claire Customer.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

When it comes to completing in-store payments, 36 percent of customers prefer to use credit cards and 33 percent opt for debit cards. Card acceptance has also been key. How Frosty Keeps Things Cool And Convenient . Frosty Ice Cream has deployed soft-serve trucks in the Boston area since 1958.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

If there’s one thing these players know how to do, it’s motivating people to take action and to use digital platforms and methods to distribute those incentives. Imagine if, instead of getting a ‘flu fighter’ Band-Aid at the pharmacy when getting the vaccine, that person got an eGift card that is spendable at the pharmacy.

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Arizona Survey Boston Examples 160

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Eat Your Coffee CEO and Co-founder Johnny Fayad was in college in Boston when he helped come up with the idea to make energy bars. They kept selling out of the bars, so they took a step back to think about how to scale the concept. He and his co-founder were in the same accounting class during his freshman year. The Differentiators.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

In fact, we’re seeing it happen in a variety of retail, banking and broader commerce pilots and prototypes today. In 2010, two researchers at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research published a paper that shed new light on how the brain makes decisions to stick with or change routine behaviors. Here’s why.

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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. Ed Bachelder, payments consultant. Fees follow. Ever stand behind anyone trying to use mobile pay?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

I said then that the payments and commerce power brokers of 2018 and beyond understand how to use context to monetize consumer intent without compromising their trust, their data and therefore their expectations of the platforms when using them. Why has the weather been so crappy for the Boston Marathon for the last 10 years?

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Google Data social media Branding 121

PYMNTS

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. Like many small businesses (SMBs), he doesn’t accept cards. He seemed confused at first — obviously no one had ever tried to pay him this way — but I explained how it would work.

Payments 195

Payments Innovation Boston Branding 195

William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Credit cards offer rewards but over 60% of payments are made on debit cards. Credit HQ helps demonstrate to a small business how to start trading. Portfolio outlooks, recommendation.Provide retail and advisory users the insight they need with Polly Portfolio. Svyatoslav Ostrovsky (Head of Retail Digital Business).

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

They provide physical or virtual platforms (like a shopping mall) for multiple groups (like retailers and shoppers) to get together. Put yourselves in the shoes of the Revolution Money team back in 2007, pitching its platform to retailers and consumers. Platforms’ Critical Success Factor: Crossing the Critical Mass Frontier.

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Bitcoin blockchain Video Apple 100

Abrigo

MAY 8, 2024

They can more easily consider how to harness genAI's power to enhance their operations, compliance, risk management, and member or customer experience. The greatest absolute gains forecast (largely from increased productivity) are tied to corporate and retail banking.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Fall has arrived in Boston and we are sizzling. In what was a huge blow for the DOJ who brought the antitrust case to court on behalf of merchants, the 66-page decision said that consumers weren’t harmed and if merchants didn’t like taking American Express cards because the fees were too high, they could just not take them. Better not.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Mobile payments will be how we pay. Online retailers will be where we shop. That means our focus in payments should be about swapping out mobile phones for plastic cards at the point of sale inside the store — right? It is exactly the blue ocean opportunity that innovators are using technology and regulatory know-how to conquer.

Payments 100

Payments Online Mobile Retail 100

PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

Playing the field might also depend on the time of the year or how crowded things get at your favorite spot. If you’re a chipmunk in Boston, you might not want to venture far or even stay out a long time when the weather is cold or snowy. You’ll exploit known places until you’re forced to explore — and then exploit — new ones.

Retail 100

Retail Study Branding Data 100

CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

iHealth’s no-contact thermometers retail for less than $45, and Salesforce’s Workplace Command Center, which centralizes key real-time reopening metrics, starts at $5 per user per month as an add-on to existing Salesforce products. We discuss cashier-less checkout and other trends in our 2020 State of Retail Tech report.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

And, yes, this likely sounds blasphemous from someone who’s been beating the mobile payments drum since 2005, well before the iPhone and the App Store changed how consumers, retailers and payments players all use mobile devices. It’s an experience that retailers are embracing and investing heavily in. Consider this.

Mobile 205

Mobile Innovation Apple Study 205

PYMNTS

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. But I had options: lots of choices for what to buy, places to find information about what to buy, a choice in how to buy it – and an easy way to access those options and choose before my class.

Innovation 170

Innovation US Maine Google 170

CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

After Amazon announced in March that it was planning to shut down Diapers.com and all the other eCommerce sites operated by Quidsi, the company it acquired in 2010 — the online retailer has pulled all of the Quidsi apps from its app store. Title: Boston startup Besomebody, once featured on ‘Shark Tank,’ shuts down app.

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