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Why Pride Vendors Are Forgoing Cash For mPOS

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Skirting Cash Shortages at Boston Pride. Boston’s pride celebration is one of the season’s biggest events for Mandy Roberge, the owner and artist behind Wicked Good Henna. The 2018 Boston Pride parade reportedly saw more than 750,000 spectators and over 55,000 marchers. Her needs are relatively simple.

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Gradifi CEO On Disrupting Student Loan Disruption

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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.

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What Serving The Internet’s ‘Underserved’ Means For Payments

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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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28 Percent Of Consumers Cite Coupons As Most Important Beauty Merchant Feature

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When Sephora announced the launch of a new 2,000-square-foot concept store in Boston last year , it unveiled a marriage of brick-and-mortar and digital: The store allowed customers the ability to order products in-store from the Sephora website, and it announced same-day pickup through its Sephora app, too.

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How Platform Payments Are Reimagining Rentals

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Consumers, particularly millennials, are increasingly paying their bills online. are paid online, with 61 percent of those payments coming from millennials. Zillow’s new offerings should bring attention, and customers, to the online rental market, Zahnd said, increasing the total volume of online rent payments.

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Blue Apron Turns 7 As Meal Kit Industry Grows Up

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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 idea took off, with “growth (looking) like a steady exponential curve, aided by word of mouth and social media marketing,” according to the BI account. Presto Eats is a good example of that.

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Blue Apron Marks Seventh Birthday Amid Meal Kit Industry Changes

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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 idea took off, with “growth (looking) like a steady exponential curve, aided by word of mouth and social media marketing,” according to the BI account. Presto Eats is a good example of that.

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