PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

To let shoppers experience their products in person, brands are opening brick-in-mortar stores in major shopping destinations, even as major retailers are closing stores across the country. Tivoli Audio , which is a 19-year-old global brand, opened a 500-square-foot store on Boston’s famed Newbury Street in a brownstone.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

The Boston-based online sports gambling company announced Friday (June 19) it will sell 16 million shares of its stock. By bringing together our leading consumer brand, data science expertise and industry-leading products with SBTech’s proven technology platform, we will accelerate our innovation, growth and scale,” he said. “I

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

To serve customers who want to shop in stores and online, retailers and solution providers are working to offer a unified retail experience across multiple channels. According to the latest PYMNTS mPOS Tracker , almost two thirds – or 63 percent – of retailers plan to offer this option within the next three years.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

These reasons are driving a surge of interest in and use of remote online notarization (RON) services, according to James Schlimmer , managing partner of Naples, Florida-based notary firm Cottrell Title & Escrow. The COVID-19 crisis has been a catalyst for RON adoption in the United States,” Schlimmer said in an interview with PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Future tech is no longer the province of high-end retailers. Innovations in 3D and augmented reality (AR) eCommerce are leveling the playing field and bringing conversion-centered visual technology to any online retailer. The main expansion of 3D is being seen in its dual usage for consumers and retailers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

Cinema chains are driving customer convenience and building loyalty with the help of digital innovations to make for more seamless moviegoing experiences. As it stands, mobile ordering is available at the chain’s Denver, Boston and Houston locations — and more markets are said to be in the works for this year.

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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.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It might also offer opportunities not possible with cash while supporting innovation.”. As reported in the latest “How We Will Shop” report, done in collaboration between PYMNTS and PayPal, 24 percent of all consumers said they had shifted at least one daily activity online, and plan to keep it that way.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2017

Boston-based athletic company New Balance has a simple mission: to become the world’s best running brand. Said simply, New Balance is rethinking athletic footwear retail — how to sells shoes, where to sell shoes and how to carry on its relationship with its customers across channels — and in between sneaker replacements.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

It also explains why some innovations in payments have been met with open arms by consumers and others given the cold shoulder. In fact, we’re seeing it happen in a variety of retail, banking and broader commerce pilots and prototypes today. And, they haven’t seen enough of a reward to commit to continuing. Here’s why.

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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.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. Almost half, 45 percent, have shifted digital to shop for retail products, and one in five to shop for groceries and order food from restaurants.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

While sales fell 25 percent in the first quarter, the slowdown is expected to accelerate in the second quarter and could lead to an estimated contraction by as much as 35 percent for the year, said the Boston-based investment firm. Online luxury has remained resilient, while brand name stores and department stores have seen sharp drops.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Most retail deposits still take place at the branch. Most Retail Deposits Still Take Place at the Branch. Yet, with a decade of remote deposit capture utilization behind us, a January 2017 survey of US financial institutions (n=269) clearly shows that the majority of retail deposit dollar volume still takes place in the branch.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

Omnicommerce usually refers to where and how retailers sell their products, not necessarily who they choose to sell them with. From office supplies and communal workspaces to new ways to pay for concert tickets, more barriers to siloed retail activity are falling every day to the onslaught of retail partnerships.

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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. These teams are looking to mobile apps to innovate payments in a way that will revitalize purchases and the game experience.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 18, 2017

A recent acquisition spree including Jet.com gives the retail giant much-needed digital chops by Brad Stone and Matthew Boyle from Bloomberg Business Week Last summer, Marc Lore, founder and chief executive officer of e-commerce startup Jet.com Inc., AMAZON IS DOMINATING” reads a slide on a large screen behind him.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Amazon To Build $40M Robotics Innovation Hub Near Boston. Tye Brady, chief technologist at Amazon Robotics , said the new hub will speed-up innovation and will be a “world-class facility, where our teams can design, build, program, and ship our robots, all under the same roof.”. Deutsche Bank told U.K.

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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. Innovation by Any Other Name. Back here in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

Rolling with the eCommerce punches is becoming a fact of retail life. Some retailers have taken to integrating more tech into brick-and-mortar locations, but it may be too early to tell what the effect of those efforts are on the bottom line. Each Thursday, the beauty retailer will unveil these deals.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Put on a Retail Happy Face. Yup, physical retail is doing just fine — despite all the talk of doom and gloom. Yet, according to Fung Global Retail & Technology, 6,985 stores closed in 2017 , up 229 percent from 2016, and well above the number of stores which closed in the year that started physical retail’s death spiral: 2008.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2019

Brick-and-mortar pharmacy retailers are taking new approaches to delivery in the omnichannel age: CVS Pharmacy , for instance, is doubling down its on-demand offerings with a faster and expanded option. Even so, nearly a third — or 32 percent — of consumers were unaware of a mobile app by that kind of retailer. New Products.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2016

True Fit , the Boston-based startup that helps connect customers with shoes and apparel that fits them really, really well, recently announced a $25 million investment from Intel Capital that it will use to expand its business, according to a report from TechCrunch.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2016

The ubiquitous (well, at least in the Northeast) coffee chain has announced a partnership with DoorDash , the online delivery app that promises food and other “goods” delivered to your doorstep in 45 minutes or less, that will see it offer an on-demand delivery service in select parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan. “The

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

That said, mobile order-ahead apps — as can be the case generally when comes to many types of retail innovations — have lower adoption among smaller QSRs. And there are plans to expand the service to additional markets in the coming months, including Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia. Mobile-Order Ahead.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

But luckily, where there is a problem, there is typically an innovative entrepreneur selling a solution – and in the case of sleep, there are a lot of solutions out there. The user and the advanced bot work through a series of six weekly online sessions aimed at healing “broken sleep,” according to Sleepio. “It But does it really work?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Amazon said in its announcement that Sidewalk will extend the low-bandwidth working range of such devices, with bandwidth sharing across neighbors representing a “network of networks” that will help devices stay online. The company has said the network enhancement is available at no charge.

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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. Innovation Trajectory.

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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. 3 post position, displacing Apple, at roughly 4 percent of retail sales. That retailer is, of course, Amazon. percent of consumer retail spending in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2018

The traditional gift for a ninth anniversary is pottery, and our offices are in Boston – but, you know, no pressure.). But then, we had a feeling that something like this might be about to happen in a world suddenly able to be online and on the go at all times – it’s why we were founded in 2009. That is no longer the case today.).

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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.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Germany- and Boston-based Spreadshirt uses data, analytics and even social media information to build a product and spread news among communities while printing more than 3.6 The startup concept was to create and activate an online shop system to sell and share ideas,” said Smoter. million items last year. “[Our Greensburg, Penn.;

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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.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

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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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2018

For some entrepreneurs, innovative ideas can strike at literally any time – and for Monica + Andy founder Monica Royer , her business concept certainly hit her at an interesting time. I was so surprised when I had my daughter, and I realized there had been no innovation in what your baby wears in the hospital,” Monica Royer told Forbes. “I

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