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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

On March 24, on what would have usually been a busy day at the start of spring, the state ordered all nonessential retail shops on the green to shut down, as the pandemic crept its way north from New York City and south from Boston. That day was the start of a harrowing three-month retail lockdown. They still had anniversaries.

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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.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

To create a food hall-like experience for customers, Whole Foods Market ’s 70,000-square-foot store in Atlanta showcases four eateries. Whole Foods Market South Region President Bobby Turner said, according to the outlet, “Whole Foods Market Midtown will be a true gathering space for the community.”

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PYMNTS

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 Founded in 2002, the goal of Spreadshirt’s platform is to eliminate headaches and hurdles when bringing great ideas to market. million items last year. “[Our

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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. The Mushroom Market. There’s a million things you can do with it.”. The Business Model.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

They can then select a host, which could be, say, a retail store or hotel, and enter their drop-off and pick-up times in addition to their number of small and/or large bags. Pricing and Target Market. The company’s target market, Korbel said, runs “the gamut.” It will serve the college student who is in Washington, D.C.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2016

While football draws the more rabid fandom, and basketball creates more notable opportunities for the design and marketing of high-end footwear, when it comes to getting bodies in the seats, baseball is the national champion. Want to take your family of four to see the Boston Red Sox? exist at all kinds of price points.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

communities. communities. That matters because as time goes by and existing cities become prohibitively expensive — think San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles, with Chicago, Boston and other areas not far behind — many younger, well-educated consumers are making moves to exurban or even rural areas, or smaller cities.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Google, for instance, has its Midwest headquarters in the former Fulton Market Cold Storage building. Building upon its Boston-area staff, Facebook plans to open a new office in neighboring Cambridge next year. The grocery, retail, housing and office portions of the project are slated for completion by 2021.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2019

And while San Francisco’s housing market is legendary for its many rental horror stories, other cities are less extreme but still quite high: roughly $2,850 a month in New York, $2,670 in Washington, D.C., 2,420 in Boston and $2,300 in Seattle for a no-frills one-bedroom, probably a walk-up. The average age of a nun in the U.S.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 27, 2016

“It’s becoming more and more important for community banks to emphasize that they have the same products and services as large banks.” Eric Morse counters megabanks through judicious marketing and branding. Mental cobwebs of outdated perceptions can sometimes be hard for a community bank to shake off. Retail locations: Eight.

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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. 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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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Certain mobile functions and features are essential to the success of a community bank’s mobile banking offerings. Newfangled mobile capabilities could help community banks stand apart from their competitors. Share of community banks and credit unions offering the following mobile banking features and functions: 84%.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Certain mobile functions and features are essential to the success of a community bank’s mobile banking offerings. Newfangled mobile capabilities could help community banks stand apart from their competitors. Share of community banks and credit unions offering the following mobile banking features and functions: 84%.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Boston-based meal kit company Just Add Cooking aims to address both by sourcing its kits from farms and businesses in the New England region. That’s why local markets are one of the fastest-growing food segments in the U.S., The people who produce it are eating it; they’re living in my community,” said Mayo. “If

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

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. According to reports last week, Amazon will soon be heading to Boston to construct a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub.

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APRIL 14, 2020

There’s nothing like being in a class physically with a community and an instructor. Peloton, for example, took the market by storm with its connected fitness bikes that allow members of the greater community to tap into live classes and pre-recorded content with fellow riders from around the world. It’s not the same, right?”

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

Customer contact centers are reshaping retail service for the technology age. Increasingly, more digitally connected consumers are saying yes to that question with their community bank. For many community banks, telephone calls still generate the highest volumes of customer service interactions. Bob Meara, retail banking expert.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2017

Flashfood bears a close resemblance to Boston, Mass. non-profit grocer Daily Table, which stocks healthy and convenient foods at an affordable price by sourcing them from a large network of growers, markets and manufacturers. is beefing up its ecommerce capabilities with a $10 million investment in online meal kit retailer Chef’d.

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Celent Banking

MAY 31, 2016

While my colleagues were spread out across the US covering conferences in Boston, New Orleans, and other locations, I spent four days in beautiful Barcelona covering the Temenos TCF 2016 Conference , followed by another three days in sunny Orlando covering the FIS Connect 2016 Conference.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

Rouse’s communications director, Robert Rubenkonig, said in a 2004 Shopping Centers Today story that the developer sought to create “community picnics” with the concept. At the Empire Stores complex in Brooklyn, the Time Out Market New York is set to open in 2019. They’re open areas — a great idea that stuck,” he said.

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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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JULY 19, 2018

.” And while she first encountered the problem of middling to low-quality kids’ clothing in the hospital, Royer quickly realized it was more or less an epidemic issue in the market for baby clothes in general. It has also added six retail stores, three permanent and three nine-month pop-ups.

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

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

So what can community banks expect for mobile banking and mobile deposit capture in 2015? According to technology research firm Celent in Boston, the mobile user base will increase from 33 million in 2014 to 47 million in 2015. Here are three predictions I see as major trends to look for in the technologies in the next few months.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

There is no shortage of startups that enter the wild world of direct-to-consumer (DTC) retail to address a hole in the market that leaves a massive number of consumers underserved. Nothing Tracksmith sells will make anyone faster, he said, and any brand advertising that it can is probably stretching the truth for marketing purposes.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

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. Goes to Eric Sprink, Coastal Community Bank , Everett, Wash. Like how does that play into our communities? 82% to over 2.3% Inspirational?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

Customers download the app through the Apple App Store or Google Play and sign up for the service and choose the market that suits them. It offers delivery or convenient pickup locations in the community as it has partnerships with breweries, libraries and workplaces. There is not a lot of noise like in Boston and New York.

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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. “You want to get into as many use cases as possible,” said Greg Weed, director of card performance research at Phoenix Marketing International.

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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. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

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. Svyatoslav Ostrovsky (Head of Retail Digital Business). Retail for a piece.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And before the dot com crash, Goldman Sachs’ IPOs did tend to jump an average of 293% from their starting price through their first Friday on the market — compared to 26% for the bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and 78% for Merrill Lynch. When Facebook went public in 2012, the stock fell 15% in its first few days on the market.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

have a retail crisis — or a small business crisis? Which is why “fixing” retail must include giving SMB merchants the tools they need to compete in the very dynamic environment that now defines Retail U.S.A. No small businesses in those areas means no SMB jobs in those markets. Here’s a question: Does the U.S.

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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. When anyone talks about two-sided markets, two-sided networks, platforms or the sharing economy, they are really talking about multisided businesses. Think of it this way.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

That announcement comes as most of the global payments-watching community was watching Samsung Pay’s imminent foray into India. And, it should be noted, Samsung has great expectations for the Thai market and has set a goal of attracting 1 million users to the platform by the end of the year. Speaking of watching — and watches….

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

In the past decade, restaurant and bar purchases have grown at twice the rate of general retail spending. 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. Community initiatives: Loom (Massachusetts).

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

Edgewater Markets. Point-of-sale financing for retailers. HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Tags: SMB, expense management, expense reports, debit card, prepaid, accounting, bookkeeping, Y Combinator (investor), Community Federal Savings Bank (issuer). Source: Crunchbase. Foreign exchange aggregation & distribution.

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