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JUNE 25, 2018

Then I went to Whole Foods on the North Shore of Boston Saturday morning to do some grocery shopping. I’ve been a Whole Foods shopper since I moved to Boston 17 years ago for the same reasons that each of you may be too: organic meat, seafood, produce and foods, great bread and cheese and a fun vibe. Prime Time at the Grocery Store.

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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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Celent Banking

JANUARY 20, 2017

Ongoing innovation in banking technology is clearly beginning to pay off, and we’ve been privileged to learn an immense amount from all of the financial institutions that took the time to tell us about their how they’ve been using technology and innovation to serve customers better, become more efficient, and mitigate risk.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

According to NIH studies , those who report poor sleep in middle age often experience symptoms of dementia or Alzheimer’s later in life. 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. But does it really work?

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

For Main Street businesses, the pain isn’t the result of just one shop or restaurant closing down, since the churn of small businesses is part of the small business reality – particularly in the retail and restaurant sector. The owner of an upscale hair salon in Boston is an example of a business living this reality.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When asked, fear of crowds surfaced as consumers’ primary reason for preferring to carry on with digital-first experiences when it comes to shopping for groceries (57 percent), purchasing retail products (52 percent) and even ordering food from restaurants (45 percent). The SMB Pinch. The Power of Persistence.

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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., Even more astonishing, Lore and his management team in Hoboken, N.J.,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Not surprisingly, to make consumers more comfortable shopping and checking out in their stores, retailers have rushed to enable a “ contactless ” payment experience. One of the best things that happened last week was the reopening of hair salons in Boston. This latest study of a national sample of U.S. Like payments terminals.

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JULY 27, 2017

In a press release detailing the effort, the retailer said the meeting included a bipartisan conversation about the current challenges and opportunities in the American manufacturing sector as well as case studies of successful collaboration among different players. “As Manufacturing. manufacturing.”.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

While the store is a first for Nike, it’s part of a bigger trend in retail — product and inventory localization. how retailers can survive (and thrive) this holiday season. Learn about the technologies, innovations, and strategies that retailers can leverage during the holidays. Major retailers and brands go local.

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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. Housing (18.5

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

So, Amazon hasn’t just benefited its customers: It has forced retailers to lower prices and increase their levels of service. Our own studies show that more than 14 percent of all consumers over the age of 18 living in the U.S. percent of all retail sales to 6.4 percent of retail sales and 50 percent of all eCommerce sales.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

Boston-based agricultural tech company Freight Farms , for example, grows produce inside of shipping containers. According to an NPD study , health and wellness-related activity is leading to healthier restaurants that Smallhold could serve. But Smallhold is not the only urban farming concept coming to a U.S.

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Tefkin

JUNE 3, 2014

While other sectors attract more mainstream press attention (payment, retail banking), the asset management industry is also deeply affected by “software eating the world” Asset Class Competition. On the “Beta” end of the scale, ETFs are steadily becoming one of the most successful innovation in recent decades.

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 22, 2016

Retail Bank, Citibank, New York, NY. Arjan Schutte, Founder and Managing Partner, Core Innovation Capital, Los Angeles, CA. Chi Chi Wu, Staff Attorney, National Consumer Law Center, Boston, MA. Hughes, Senior Vice President and Director of Mortgage and Retail Lending, First Federal Savings Bank of Twin Falls, Twin Falls, IA.

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Banking 2020

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

There are lessons to be learned from experiences in retail. Regardless of how and why they hit the market, some technology-driven innovations seem to lend themselves to particular vertical markets and/or disciplines. Well, there’s no doubt about this one: retail. In fact, 38% of retailers say this is a top priority.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering the economics through Internet-based technology, generating significant consumer benefits.” Except, of course, it didn’t – and it is now in the crowded graveyard of payments innovations that sounded too good to be true.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. Typically the younger segments are more innovative and are looking for new ways to do things,” Brown offers.

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Celent Banking

APRIL 7, 2017

Many of us at Celent just came back from a busy and exciting week in Boston. Undoubtedly, the highlight was attending Celent's Innovation and Insight Day on April 4th, where we celebrated achievements of the Model Bank and Model Insurer award winners. Consumer Banking Channel Innovation. Product Innovation.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 14, 2017

Until we announce all winners publicly on April 4 at our 2017 Innovation & Insight Day in Boston, we’re unable to say too much more – very frustrating! First, the entries this year reinforce how hard it is for any single bank to come up with a cutting edge product innovation in payments.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. However, this isn’t the whole story.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

JANUARY 19, 2017

Naturally, as is the case for most forward-looking of retailers, they do not take cash, so I paid with one of the many cards about my person. Perry Kramer, vice president and practice lead at consultant Boston Retail Partners, contends that as many as four-fifths of (US, I presume) retailers are already “largely cashless”.

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 23, 2017

Consumer Banking Channel Innovation – for the most creative use of consumer channels, or the most effective channel integration. Branch Transformation – for the most compelling branch transformation initiative, including branch format innovations and creative use of live agents.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

The restaurant industry has seen its share of futuristic innovations and bots, particularly in the fast-casual and quick service restaurant (QSR) spaces. Founders Michael Farid, Brady Knight, Luke Schlueter, and Kale Rogers were busy student athletes studying at MIT.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Samsung Pay is not entirely new to Thailand — the service has been rolling out slowly under the radar since a November soft launch with about 100 retail partners — but as of Tuesday, Samsung Pay was out in full for any Thai customer interested in taking it for a smartphone spin. Samsung Pay In Thailand. year old mobile payments app.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

Retailers looked at in the study are capable of enabling an NFC payment and include drug/grocery/QSR and some retail. The retail pharmacy’s proprietary app will integrate payments, prescription health pickup and its rewards for Android or iOS mobile device users.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

I argued that making buying seamless inside of environments that consumers used regularly for other reasons would drive innovation for those environments —and for the third parties that enabled those new commerce experiences. This capability is as disruptive as it is innovative. Third on that list was “contextual commerce.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Fall has arrived in Boston and we are sizzling. Regardless, the full employment act for lawyers on these matters continues as the Supreme Court just yesterday agreed to take the appeal of the New York state law barring retailers from imposing surcharges on purchases made with a credit card instead of cash. They were …. Faster Payments.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

While American paychecks have increased over the past few decades, the purchasing power of those paychecks has remained stagnant, according to a recent Pew study. In the 1950s and 1960s, the biggest innovations in breakfast were Eggo Waffles and Pop-Tarts. GET THE 54-PAGE RETAIL TRENDS REPORT. The way we shop is changing.

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CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

However, in the US, 2 out of 3 workers still feel uncomfortable returning to the workplace, according to a Qualtrics study. A completely remote workforce seems unlikely, given the intangible benefits of social connection, collaboration, and innovation that in-person working provides. Challenges: unproven studies and inconvenience .

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CB Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

Forward-thinking startups and large tech companies like Facebook and Google are focused on innovation in single-family and multi-family residential construction. Blokable was founded by Aaron Holm, who formerly spearheaded physical retail efforts at Amazon. Both companies partner with landlords and charge a management fee. in Q1’18.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

If you’re a chipmunk in Boston, you might not want to venture far or even stay out a long time when the weather is cold or snowy. Just like the consumer that every retailer and innovator hopes to attract makes their decisions about where and how to shop in the physical store. There’s some interesting data to back it up.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

This is the year that everyone takes a critical look at the innovations they’ve pursued over the last decade to decide what’s worth taking forward into the decade of the ‘20s and what’s best left behind in the decade whose door will close 358 days from today. That makes it the most important year of the last decade. Consider this.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Steering the ship — handling all of the engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and retailing, even when you’re taking 90 percent of the subsequent profits — was ultimately too expensive of a proposition, especially in comparison to other, less-handholding-oriented start-ups. via Beta Boston. ” via Boston Globe. via Forbes.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. Title: Boston startup Besomebody, once featured on ‘Shark Tank,’ shuts down app. Product: Guvera.

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