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?

Regulation 181

Regulation Boston Cards Innovation 181

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

From an operational and risk perspective, we’ve handled the inflows smoothly, and without comprising our credit underwriting standards.”. According to reports last week, Amazon will soon be heading to Boston to construct a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub. Amazon’s Big Robotics Investment . India, the U.K.

Apple 101

Apple Massachusetts Data Cards 101

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Super Bowl LI is less than 24 hours away from kicking off and deciding once and for all which city is better — Atlanta or Boston (though obviously it’s Boston — since the global headquarters for PYMNTS.com is located here). And then there’s Tom Brady. Just in case you needed even more of a reason to want the Pats to win!).

Boston 100

Boston San Francisco Houston Georgia 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Super Bowl LI is less than 24 hours away from kicking off and deciding once and for all which city is better — Atlanta or Boston (though obviously it’s Boston — since the global headquarters for PYMNTS.com is located here). And then there’s Tom Brady. Just in case you needed even more of a reason to want the Pats to win!).

Boston 100

Boston San Francisco Houston Georgia 100

PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

This once-free social networking site, over the course of the 11 years it existed, assembled millions of people who freely shared their experiences with each other and the entirety of the web. The citizens of Boston didn’t need a government report to tell them what was wrong, because taxi service in Boston was pretty pathetic.

Boston 124

Boston Regulation Innovation Study 124

PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

There was variety of course- but within limits. Plain cake, glazed, chocolate dipped, Boston creme, powdered sugar and jelly was the standard line – with perhaps the occasional cruller or blueberry cake thrown in for exoticism. We felt it was going to cause a lot of chaos from the operations side.”. Moving To Mobile Payments .

Innovation 101

Innovation Mobile Michigan Ohio 101

PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

According to Zach Hensley, vice president of operations and guest experiences for the Seahawks and CenturyLink Field, these services are changing how fans experience live games and boosting their overall enjoyment. For the 2019 NFL season – PYMNTS is based in Boston, so Go Pats! –

Payments 161

Payments social media Mobile Seattle 161

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. In fact, 91.4

Mobile 148

Mobile New York Philadelphia Google 148

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Introduced in 2014 alongside a handful of other experimental services, Uber Eats operates worldwide in 29 countries. And Grubhub has been in expansion mode , gobbling up Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and Yelp’s Eat24 in 2017. Manhattan-based Green Summit Group, for example, operates nine restaurants out of one kitchen.

Marketing 134

Marketing Boston Operations Retail 134

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

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Seventy-nine percent of consumers report that the merchants they shop with have added or improved their digital-first and touchless experiences over the course of the pandemic. Many of the Main Street businesses, which were once options for consumers, have closed or operate with limited hours and inventory,” Webster noted.

Retail 220

Retail Study Report Boston 220

Abrigo

MAY 8, 2015

This has the attention of the nation’s regulators and the Comptroller of the Currency, Thomas Curry, who recently spoke in Boston at the Interagency Outreach Meeting on the Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act. Of course, collaboration must not violate antitrust laws and is subject to third-party relationship guidance.

Community Bank 150

Community Bank Community How To Meeting 150

PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2018

Still, Bon-Ton said its eCommerce and mobile platforms will continue to operate as its stores are liquidated. To keep its operations going during the bankruptcy court process, the retailer said it had lined up $725 million in debtor-in-possession financing.

Milwaukee 104

Milwaukee Delaware Retail Operations 104

PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

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. We are tech agnostic,” Winrich said.

Payments 131

Payments Los Angeles San Francisco New York City 131

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.

Boston 100

Boston Online Data Retail 100

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Which means the inefficient, rush-hour obstacle course that stands between commuters getting their tickets and catching their trains needs to have far fewer obstacles. But now, with the ability to pay with their choice of funds directly from that account, city systems become operable for anyone. Building A Better Future For Transport.

New York 105

New York New York City System Metro 105

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

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The most effective contrarians, of course, are those whose countervailing opinions are rooted in an intellectually honest framework or set of hypotheses that offer credible support for looking at things through a different lens. Some consumers will take the bait, of course, but most won’t. Good luck with that.

Cards 169

Cards Course Study New York 169

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. Because by the numbers, every open quite literally counts. Redefining Goals .

Los Angeles 100

Los Angeles social media Retail Marketing 100

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. Funding and investor information is as of 9/6/17. .

Maine 70

Maine Capital Rhode Island DC 70

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

In an interview with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, Gradifi’s new CEO David Chang — all of a week and a half in his role and a PayPal alum (where he helmed that firm’s Boston office) — said that all too often in conversation with young borrowers, it becomes apparent that debt is steering their career choices. What’s On Offer.

Study 170

Study United States Boston Millennials 170

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Emma Nutt, born in 1860 in a small town in Maine, was hired by Alexander Graham Bell in 1878 to be the world’s first female telephone switchboard operator. Over the years, of course, long-armed women were replaced by the automated switching systems that evolved to become the backbone of the telephone switching systems that are in place today.

Google 190

Google Branding System Apple 190

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. Analysts say the tangible benefits of digitization and a happier end user are clear.

blockchain 171

blockchain Lending User Experience Mobile 171

PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

One of the best things that happened last week was the reopening of hair salons in Boston. And that will become this salon’s standard operating procedure going forward. It doesn’t appear that this experience is exclusive to fancy hair salons in Boston. Don’t Touch This.

Cards 147

Cards Study Maine Payments 147

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Don’t get me wrong — I did miss being out and about (especially over this past weekend, since there is a lot of still very white snow here in Boston, which makes everything seem even more festive). Of course, these are on Android phones, too. The whole process took less than 15 minutes.

Apple 227

Apple Study Innovation Survey 227

Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

But in today’s world of proliferating digital devices and communication options, customer contact centers, once operating primarily as telephone switchboards, are turning into full-service and multichannel communication hubs. A recent ICBA poll found that 16 percent of member community banks operate contact centers. a Cambridge, Mass.,

Community Bank 70

Community Bank Community Operations Retail 70

PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

It is a delicate balance, of course. Stringfellow was promoted to the permanent position of VP of internal innovation and operations. It keeps consumers interested, because a consumer that is always guessing about the next product release is, by necessity, always thinking about the brand.

Retail 100

Retail San Francisco California Minneapolis 100

PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

We at PYMNTS, being writers, don’t do cakes and gifts for birthdays, but instead prefer writing retrospective stories like this, treatments that serve not only as a history of a particularly newsworthy company, but also a glimpse into the future of the industry in which it operates. Back to 2012. Social Media’s Role.

Industry 110

Industry social media New York City Retail 110

PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Except, of course, it didn’t – and it is now in the crowded graveyard of payments innovations that sounded too good to be true. A couple of years later, Revolution Money sold itself to American Express for $300 million, which of course is chump change for technology that’s going to transform payments! Except, of course, YouTube.

Bitcoin 100

Bitcoin blockchain Video Apple 100

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That retailer is, of course, Amazon. That curiosity was piqued by my walks to the office when I am in town (I live in Beacon Hill in Boston) and my mental counts of the number of Amazon boxes I see out on trash day. Today, Walmart is the fourth largest pharmacy operator in the U.S., percent of all consumer spending in the U.S.

Retail 167

Retail Online Branding Analysis 167

PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

We at PYMNTS, being writers, don’t do cakes and gifts for birthdays, but instead prefer writing retrospective stories like this, treatments that serve not only as a history of a particularly newsworthy company, but also a glimpse into the future of the industry in which it operates. Back to 2012. Social Media’s Role.

Industry 100

Industry social media New York City Retail 100

PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2017

And while the vision of appealing to a mature palate was clear to Marvil and Jones, when it came to actualizing their business idea, the strenuous process would take them down a long, winding road that started with mapping out the scale of their operation before finding the right real estate. “We Growing Thirst for Suds.

Maine 100

Maine Portland Massachusetts Denver 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The big competition will be on the field of course – when more than 100 million people will tune intomorrow night to see if the Eagles will be able to snag their first championship win – or if Tom Brady will end the day able to cover 70 percent of his fingers with Super Bowl rings. Hey, we’re Boston-based. Go Pats!

Minnesota 100

Minnesota Philadelphia Boston Minneapolis 100

PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. Her proposed course of action is likely to deliver anything but more uncertainty. You want to know what really sizzled this week? We’ve even stopped complaining now that we skipped spring altogether and went right into summer – the sun is shining and everyone is smiling.

Bitcoin 109

Bitcoin Fraud Mobile Apple 109

PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

. – beach trips, outdoor cooking, waterparks and, of course, baseball. Or just to boo the Yankees (Boston-based baseball fans, mostly).

Cards 115

Cards Community Boston Payments 115

PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

And Boston-based D rizly ’s news yesterday of its $15 million in Series B funding was a noteworthy milestone, for sure. . Drizly manages to get all of this done without interfe r ing with the internal operations of the store , either. This round will help us really drive awareness.

Comparison 100

Comparison Retail Boston Online 100

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2018

The traditional gift for a ninth anniversary is pottery, and our offices are in Boston – but, you know, no pressure.). Of course, we don’t really expect or even want gifts for our ninth anniversary. Don’t worry if you didn’t remember to get us a present – we didn’t want to make too big a deal out of it, so we didn’t remind you.

Innovation 177

Innovation Payments Cards Retail 177