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Why Consumers Are Firing Traditional Retailers

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Consumers are firing brick-and-mortar retailers from the jobs they held years and decades before. To get their shopping jobs done, consumers are now hiring retailers that make it convenient to do business – anywhere, anytime, through any channel and on their terms. But it’s more than that.

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Saving Main Street: How A Business School Is Helping Toronto SMB Retailers

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He was an essential part of a program that taught Main Street businesses about technology platforms and how to onboard them quickly and efficiently. A partnership was born, and the students could then help retailers get onto the Shopify program and generate precious revenue. But not everything is digital in bringing retail back.

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The Finanser’s Week: 17th July – 23rd July 2017

Chris Skinner

This week’s main blog headlines are … Why FinTech start-ups think they can beat the banks There’s an old joke about the guy who’s lost driving in the countryside who stops to ask a pedestrian how to get to the city. You will all know by now that I love the innovations in retail banking in Turkey, and Gürhan didn’t disappoint.

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Are Retailers Ready For Amazon?s Prime Time?

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Then I went to Whole Foods on the North Shore of Boston Saturday morning to do some grocery shopping. He then asked if I would like information about how to become an Amazon Prime member so that I could take advantage of those deals. Why not extend the concept of the local marketplace to include non-food retailers too?

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True Tickets, Shubert Partner To Trial Blockchain Broadway Ticketing

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Boston startup True Tickets is teaming up with the Broadway theater company The Shubert Organization for blockchain-based mobile ticket delivery , the companies said in a press release Wednesday (Oct. Shubert Ticketing sells tickets through its retail brand, Telecharge, as well as through hundreds of third-party agents.

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True Tickets Partners With Shubert To Trial Blockchain Broadway Ticketing

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Boston startup True Tickets is teaming up with the Broadway theater company The Shubert Organization for blockchain-based mobile ticket delivery , the companies said in a press release Wednesday (Oct. Shubert Ticketing sells tickets through its retail brand, Telecharge, as well as through hundreds of third-party agents.

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American Greed: Can being an honest broker be banks and credit unions competitive advantage?

Jeff For Banks

According to a 2012 Boston College Center for Retirement Research study , 63% of American males (why only males I do not know) participated exclusively in defined contribution (DC) retirement plans in 2007, up from 47% in 1992. We are increasingly bearing the burden of managing our money. Probably not. I think so.

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