PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

For Main Street businesses, to say 2020 was challenging is an understatement. According to PYMNTS data, more than 60 percent of Main Street firms have at least three channels operating to drive sales: online, at physical stores and mobile. Aid has notably come in from all corners, particularly the card networks.

Maine 169

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Many of the Main Street businesses, which were once options for consumers, have closed or operate with limited hours and inventory,” Webster noted. Before the pandemic, James Beard award-winning Boston wine bar haley.henry was an eatery known for small plates, tinned fish and all-natural, small-batch wines shipped from all over the world.

Retail 220

Retail Study Report Boston 220

PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

When you make it super easy to farm something, it becomes a whole new business opportunity for a community. Boston-based agricultural tech company Freight Farms , for example, grows produce inside of shipping containers. Mushrooms make an actually great main if you’re at a restaurant.”. The Business Model.

New York 122

New York Marketing New York City Study 122

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. So where do ballyhooed mobile banking and payments developments among the biggest players leave community banks?

Mobile 105

Mobile Community Bank Community Technology 105

PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

Or just to boo the Yankees (Boston-based baseball fans, mostly). Which means in these early days, FIS and their collaborators at the MiLB have three main priorities. Minor league parks often have something of a unique relationship with their communities. Why not tie all of that together inside the same mobile app?” John asked.

Cards 115

Cards Community Boston Payments 115

PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

Then I went to Whole Foods on the North Shore of Boston Saturday morning to do some grocery shopping. I’ve been a Whole Foods shopper since I moved to Boston 17 years ago for the same reasons that each of you may be too: organic meat, seafood, produce and foods, great bread and cheese and a fun vibe. Prime Time at the Grocery Store.

Retail 156

Retail Branding Millennials Online 156

Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Fallout from recent global events presents an obstacle to generating revenue for community banks. Since COVID-19, profitability planning for community banks has mainly hinged on how the government was coping with the pandemic and the key role financial institutions played in keeping the economy afloat. By Elizabeth Judd.

Strategy 135

Strategy Community Bank Louisville Community 135

PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering the economics through Internet-based technology, generating significant consumer benefits.” Except, of course, it didn’t – and it is now in the crowded graveyard of payments innovations that sounded too good to be true.

Bitcoin 100

Bitcoin blockchain Video Apple 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Twenty-six million strong, employing 50 percent of the workforce and creating 65 percent of all new jobs, SMBs and storefronts that line the side streets and main streets of our cities and towns are the fuel that keeps our economic engines humming, roughly 100 million Americans employed and what feeds a thriving middle class. economy pumping.

Retail 134

Retail Innovation Maine Community 134

CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

We’re continuing to improve our defenses, and I think this also underscores that there are just constant attacks from people who are trying to take over accounts or steal information from people in our community.”. is a Boston-based startup that verifies government-issued IDs for third-party businesses. Confirm.io Source: Google.

Google 76

Google Apple Security Data 76

CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

Market share is simply shifting away from big chains that haven’t successfully innovated, flowing instead to new models for creating and selling food to customers. Vegan fast casual: By Chloe (NYC, Boston, LA, Providence, London). Community initiatives: Loom (Massachusetts). table of contents. Vegan fast casual: By Chloe.

San Francisco 69

San Francisco California United States CA 69

PYMNTS

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.”.

Branding 100

Branding Payments Los Angeles Innovation 100

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Top initiatives: First company to test self-driving tech on the streets of Singapore, and later in Boston. It then also became the first to test such technology on public streets in Boston, Massachusetts. Top initiatives: Main project involves self-driving truck “platoons” connected through wireless signals.

System 78

System Technology Michigan California 78

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

via Beta Boston. Torris said Boo.com also spent too much on advertising and promotions and failed to keep pushing forward on technology innovations. In a Boston Globe interview in January, he had indicated that the company’s financial performance was a pressing concern. ” via Boston Globe. via Boston Magazine.

Capital 78

Capital Company San Francisco Operations 78

CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. Title: Boston startup Besomebody, once featured on ‘Shark Tank,’ shuts down app. Around 4 p.m.,

Company 78

Company US San Francisco Capital 78