PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

It’s why recommendations are consistently ranked by consumers as one of the most important features a merchant can offer an online shopper, why merchants gladly oblige and why brands strive to make products that are consistently ranked high by consumers. Saving Main Street. Even more of them are closing.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

That’s because stadiums and sports teams are looking for more opportunities to connect with at-home and online viewers as they come to represent another segment of attendees. Not only that, but over the next decade, some 90 percent of sports bets will be made online. For the 2019 NFL season – PYMNTS is based in Boston, so Go Pats! –

Payments 161

Payments social media Mobile Seattle 161

PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2016

According to reports in Bloomberg , this is the second big geographical area to go online with Prime following some reporting in Bloomberg Businessweek that indicated some potentially disturbing disparities in where the service is (and is not) available in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York and Washington.

San Francisco 100

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

The pods set up shop in places where the nap-needing tend to gather – university campuses and office spaces being their two main sweet spots – and offer the chance to book a 20-minute to two-hour nap online or on mobile with a few clicks or taps. Boston Med has offered Sleepio since 2016. But does it really work?

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

Connecting with consumers has seen a significant change over the course of the past few decades. Even as consumer expectation rises, a mere 25 percent of retailers are confident that they’re meeting the omnichannel demands of the retail industry, according to Boston Retail Partner research.

Retail 137

Retail social media Customer Experience Boston 137

PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. This newfound friction is the result of the City of Boston passing a bill that bans plastic bags and gives merchants the right to charge for ones made of paper. I say yes, because … well, what else is there to say?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

In fact, in its founding days back in 2002, Wayfair fit comfortably in the spare bedroom of Conine’s Boston-area home. As of now, the firm is looking to branch out from its Copley Place headquarters in downtown Boston and into a neighboring building that reportedly has enough space to accommodate it. Doubling Down On Tech.

Boston 100

Boston Online Data Retail 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

It’s not wholly undeserved, of course. And adapting to those evolutions – and following them through, ” The Tie Bar CEO Allyson Lewis noted in an interview Lewis is how the eCommerce Tie Bar brand made a full migration to permanent physical stores — now up and running in Boston, Chicago and New York.

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Chicago Retail Boston New York 102

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

When Buy Online, Pick Up In-Store Goes Horribly Wrong. It seemed like a no-brainer: A consumer finds and pays for something online and picks it up at the store faster than they could have it delivered. Like you, I suspect, I’ve attempted to use the buy online, pick up in-store option on many occasions over the last couple of years.

Retail 172

Retail Online Study Meeting 172

PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2018

Finding a pair that fits her waist comfortably without needing to be hemmed six inches is a nearly impossible task even in a store, where she can try on pair after pair — let alone online, where she essentially has to guess whether the jeans will fit, and then go through the rigmarole of returning them if they don’t. Fashion Tech.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. Of course, these are on Android phones, too.

Apple 227

Apple Study Innovation Survey 227

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

MARCH 6, 2017

While many in the Greater Boston area stayed indoors to keep clear of the arctic chill that had descended upon the region, eight teams hunkered down in offices in the middle of the Financial District with another goal in mind: reimagining the retail and payments experience using AR/VR technologies. Payment-enabled, of course.

Retail 101

Retail Payments Boston Innovation 101

Bank Innovation

APRIL 13, 2016

Today’s roster ranges from an artificial intelligence data analytics service for brick-and-mortar stores to expand into e-commerce, to providing the crash course most of us unfortunately still need to understand what the heck Read More.

Analytics 150

Analytics Survey Course Fintech 150

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

There were cheap sofas in abundance on the planet — and of course extremely expensive options out there. The plan from our perspective was to create a user experience online first that would enable shoppers to easily customize a piece,” said Royer. But something simple, purpose build and of high quality for the middle market.

San Francisco 122

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

Delivery is not the only way that QSRs are trying to reach more consumers, of course — especially younger consumers married to their mobile devices and who all but take for granted the availability of ever more robust digital consumer experiences. Beyond Delivery. McDonald’s.

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Mobile New York Philadelphia Google 148

PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

Digital companies like Amazon have long demonstrated the effectiveness of precision marketing through online and social media, but it’s been impossible for restaurants and retail operating in the brick-and-mortar world to duplicate those capabilities,” said Jain. They also accelerated the adoption of our new online ordering platform.

Los Angeles 100

Los Angeles social media Retail Marketing 100

PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2017

Boston-based athletic company New Balance has a simple mission: to become the world’s best running brand. It’s a multi-pronged attack that is leveraging both gadgets and a big reboot of the in-store experience that the Boston-based firm is betting big on. The Step Into Tech: The RunIQ .

Retail 100

Retail Boston Community Branding 100

PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2018

It’s Boston. It’s February (or maybe it’s May, because it’s still snowing in Boston). And these merchants and retailers are recognizing that, over the course of the next two to three years, that $400 billion is going to inflate to something like $1.2 Picture this. It’s snowing. A driver has to pull over and get gas. trillion.”.

Millennials 109

Millennials Boston Retail Mobile 109

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

For those charged with managing the consumer’s trust and safety when transacting online, and in the midst of increasingly clever cybercrooks, being comfortable going against the status quo flow has become much more important than ever before, he said. Some consumers will take the bait, of course, but most won’t. Good luck with that.

Cards 169

Cards Course Study New York 169

Independent Banker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

In a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston survey of mobile banking and payment services released in August, roughly three-fourths of about 600 community banks and credit unions in five Federal Reserve districts that were polled were offering some kind of mobile service. View credit card balances, transaction history. Stop payment requests.

Community Bank 70

Community Bank Boston Community Iowa 70

Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

In a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston survey of mobile banking and payment services released in August, roughly three-fourths of about 600 community banks and credit unions in five Federal Reserve districts that were polled were offering some kind of mobile service. View credit card balances, transaction history. Stop payment requests.

Community Bank 70

Community Bank Boston Community Iowa 70

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

There were cheap sofas in abundance on the planet – and of course extremely expensive options out there. The plan from our perspective was to create a user experience online first that would enable shoppers to easily customize a piece,” said Royer. But something simple, purpose build and of high quality for the middle market.

San Francisco 101

San Francisco Branding Austin Customer Experience 101

PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

Then I went to Whole Foods on the North Shore of Boston Saturday morning to do some grocery shopping. Another had an offer with a promo code to get $10 off my first online order, which would be delivered free to my front door in two hours or less once I linked my Prime account to Whole Foods. Prime Time at the Grocery Store.

Retail 156

Retail Branding Millennials Online 156

PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2018

After all, here in Boston, our local Irish population is eight times the size of the motherland’s, and Americans of every ethnic background get their green on one day a year. Patrick’s Day shopping: The $233 Million Online Spending Binge . Patrick’s Day — tends to run bigger, wilder and more raucous on this side of the pond.

Illinois 102

Illinois Boston Course National 102

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

who each week walk into one of those physical stores, in addition to the 100 million who are said to shop one of the retailer’s online channels. That retailer is, of course, Amazon. First, the rapid growth in online sales, of which Amazon has a 50 percent share. percent of consumer retail spending in the U.S.

Retail 167

Retail Online Branding Analysis 167

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 Surprise in the Unsurprising. The Power of Persistence.

Retail 220

Retail Study Report Boston 220

PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. The opportunity has not gone unnoticed by grocery stores and online delivery services, either, of course. Social Media’s Role.

Industry 110

Industry social media New York City Retail 110

PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

According to a recent survey from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), profits among the world’s corporate banking institutions is significantly declining – but digitization could halt that trend. Online lenders and alternative players were a wake-up call to banks,” explained Glover.

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blockchain Lending User Experience Mobile 171

PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. The opportunity has not gone unnoticed by grocery stores and online delivery services, either, of course. Social Media’s Role.

Industry 100

Industry social media New York City Retail 100

PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

The Good … The really good news about summer for retailers is that the temperature is their ally — well, at least for those retailers in the Northeast, assuming that it warms back up again in Boston (from 92 to 62 in 24 hours is a bit much …). But science has also gone the extra mile to prove it.

Retail 100

Retail Course United States Boston 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

That is a very big branch-out and rather sudden from the point of view of the program, since, currently, Google Express only operates at full-tilt capacity in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Los Angeles and Boston. First on the list is apparently getting the cooperative deal it’s worked out with Target in other U.S.

Google 100

Google South Dakota North Dakota Los Angeles 100

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

MiniLuxe is a nail and beauty lifestyle lounge with locations in Dallas, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, and Boston. The company says it is improving on the nail salon model by offering online booking tools, ethical business practices, and high-quality services at reasonable prices. Oh My Cream! Total Disclosed Funding: $6.6M.

Maine 70

Maine Capital Rhode Island DC 70

PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

Over the course of the experiment, through a series of 1,000 daily tasks, the researchers changed how the white and green dots were presented to the monkeys. Of course, we’ve seen evidence of this hard-wired behavior play out in our own payments and commerce stomping grounds over the years. Locking and unlocking the front door.

Innovation 109

Innovation Payments Google Training 109

PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

One of the best things that happened last week was the reopening of hair salons in Boston. It doesn’t appear that this experience is exclusive to fancy hair salons in Boston. percent of consumers who have shifted more of their shopping online, 85.7 Don’t Touch This. Think about that for a minute.

Cards 147

Cards Study Maine Payments 147

PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2016

Spring is about renewal, the holiday season is about family and friends, and later winter (in Boston, anyway) is filled with the gnawing anxiety that it might never ever get above 40 degrees Fahrenheit again. Every season has a certain defining characteristic. For those keeping score at home, that is 39.6 billion calories.

United States 101

United States National New York Data 101

PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2017

Kieta and Victor Moreno — online memorabilia traders — noted the bump will be present for the next few days, particularly with items more relating to O.J.’s Sheen auctioned off two pieces of precious Ruth memorabilia — his 1927 World Series ring and the original copy of the document selling Ruth from the Boston Red Sox to the Yankees in 1919.

Las Vegas 109

Las Vegas New York Boston Online 109