PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware that COVID-19 exacerbated the company’s struggles with competition and a lack of online ordering, the news service reported. Boston-based Legal Sea Foods, which has 37 locations, has closed temporarily. Chief Restructuring Officer Steven Fleming said in a sworn declaration in the U.S.

Florida 131

Florida New York New York City Delaware 131

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The digital transformation of the commerce ecosystem, which had been underway long before COVID-19 reared its ugly head, flipped into overdrive overnight, as consumers were forced to change their habits and shift almost everything they once did in real life to an online substitute. The SMB Pinch.

Retail 220

Retail Study Report Boston 220

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

This summer, Nike unveiled its latest brick-and-mortar venture in Los Angeles: Nike by Melrose, a physical store that uses local online shopping data to determine its in-store inventory. While the store is a first for Nike, it’s part of a bigger trend in retail — product and inventory localization. First Name.

Retail 64

Retail Los Angeles Strategy Community 64

PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2016

The move comes after community representatives complained that the service’s geographic limitations had some racial disparities. Amazon had last week pledged to serve the predominantly black Boston neighborhood of Roxbury. Amazon’s same-day delivery program is coming to the Bronx.

San Francisco 100

San Francisco New York New York City Boston 100

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%.

Community Bank 70

Community Bank Boston Community Iowa 70

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%.

Community Bank 70

Community Bank Boston Community Iowa 70

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2017

As every other kind of commerce moves online, food and grocery have likewise been migrating in a digital direction – and why not? Consumers can buy shoes, books, coffee pots, linens and dog toys online, so why are they still going to the grocery store for the same dozen eggs and gallon of milk they buy every week?

Boston 102

Boston Regional System Online 102

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.

Apple 101

Apple Massachusetts Data Cards 101

PYMNTS

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?”

Exercises 141

Exercises Community Boston Industry 141

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. By Phil Britt. New expectations.

Community Bank 70

Community Bank Community Operations Retail 70

PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2017

Flashfood bears a close resemblance to Boston, Mass. As a community, we need to find a way to tackle the issue of food insecurity in a manner that engenders dignity and self-respect while being economically sustainable,” Daily Table says. Finally, Campbell Soup Co.

South Carolina 121

South Carolina San Francisco Connecticut Utah 121

PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2018

It has also added six retail stores, three permanent and three nine-month pop-ups. A Boston location is set to open soon. When designing in store, she said, that means a variety of active and educational services catered to their shopping community. “We as a team hand gift-wrapped every item, putting personal notes in.

Boston 101

Boston Branding Innovation Online 101

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Amazon has opened an online store , establishing a presence on Chinese online shopping site Pinduoduo. The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) is among the nonprofits working to feed local communities this holiday season is the which provides food services to 190 towns as well as cities in the eastern Massachusetts region.

Google 129

Google Mobile Data Capital 129

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?

Maine 70

Maine Capital Rhode Island DC 70

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

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. Carrier billing allows uses to make online payments. Vodafone is the third-largest mobile operator in the U.K. But In the U.S., Apple Needs To Diversify.

Mobile 100

Mobile Payments Apple Samsung 100

PYMNTS

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. enabling convenience, access and simplicity to further connect individuals and communities all over the world.

Groups 104

Groups San Francisco New York City Cards 104

PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

It offers delivery or convenient pickup locations in the community as it has partnerships with breweries, libraries and workplaces. The company recently launched its service in Boston, where producers have to be able to drive to the city within two hours. There is not a lot of noise like in Boston and New York.

Rhode Island 122

Rhode Island Marketing Online New Hampshire 122

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

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. Seventy-one percent use online channels, 68 percent use physical stores, 66 percent use mobile and 59 percent use marketplaces.

Maine 169

Maine Philadelphia Community Boston 169

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

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.

Video 40

Video Mobile social media Analytics 40

PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2016

1 source of online fraud. And Messenger and Marcus’ big bet is that its chatbots will provide a mechanism for brands to strike up those conversations with their community faster, cheaper and as well – if not better – than a live person can do now. Remember ZeuS ? CONVERSATION, CONTEXT AND CONTROL. All inside the Messenger platform.

Google 100

Google Mobile Branding Apple 100

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.” Mental cobwebs of outdated perceptions can sometimes be hard for a community bank to shake off. Retail locations: Eight. Boston native. Lifelong Boston Bruins fan. Needham Bank.

Community Bank 70

Community Bank Community Boston Branding 70

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. So, what does this all have to do with retail? Here’s a question: Does the U.S. Here’s an answer. We have both.

Retail 134

Retail Innovation Maine Community 134

Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

Point-of-sale financing for retailers. HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Online foreign exchange services. Nigerian online credit card processor. Tags: SMB, expense management, expense reports, debit card, prepaid, accounting, bookkeeping, Y Combinator (investor), Community Federal Savings Bank (issuer). Maxwell Health.

Company 12

Company Fintech San Francisco New York City 12

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Samsung’s global march added another stopping point this week, as Thailand became the latest nation to come online for Samsung Pay. That announcement comes as most of the global payments-watching community was watching Samsung Pay’s imminent foray into India. Speaking of watching — and watches…. Samsung Pay In Thailand.

Samsung 100

Samsung Apple Mobile National 100

CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Dream Exchange, which describes itself as the first minority-owned exchange in the world, intends to launch in 2021 and aims to create a more inclusive trading environment for smaller companies and empower minority communities. INITIAL COIN OFFERINGS. The problem, historically, has been that most of these reports go unread.

Management 78

Management Capital Company Marketing 78

CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

GET THE 54-PAGE RETAIL TRENDS REPORT. One popular explanation for this is that millennials are simply shopping less in physical locations in general, preferring to do their shopping online. Not all in-store retailers have fallen out of favor with millennials the way department stores have. The way we shop is changing.

Millennials 78

Millennials Industry Trends Branding 78

CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Retail/Consumer Goods. From their humble, skunkworks-style origins in Palo Alto to their current offices in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Seattle, and Boston, they’ve scaled up to attack new projects but keep the same focus on experimentation and innovation that helped them build the first Kindle. Retail/Consumer Goods. Technology.

Innovation 74

Innovation San Francisco Georgia Technology 74

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Steering the ship — handling all of the engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and retailing, even when you’re taking 90 percent of the subsequent profits — was ultimately too expensive of a proposition, especially in comparison to other, less-handholding-oriented start-ups. via Beta Boston. via MDDI Online. via Boston Magazine.

Capital 78

Capital Company San Francisco Operations 78

CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Fresco’s head of community marketing, Johnathan Hamiter, began sending employees private Slack messages saying funding seemed “pretty bleak” and encouraging them to look for other jobs. Raptr, the online optimization platform founded by former pro gamer Dennis “Thresh” Fong a decade ago, is about to be shuttered.

Company 78

Company US San Francisco Capital 78