PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2020

It’s understandably an anxious time for Main Street businesses , even as downtowns prepare to reopen. But what about the entrepreneurs who are still hanging onto their dreams of starting a retail business? EforAll began operating in Holyoke in 2018 and in Roxbury in 2019. They don’t have VC funds.

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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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

From loyalty to inventory management and data to omnicommerce strategy, there’s no shortage of available features and options for retailers looking to upgrade to full-service payments solutions. Even after a retailer does find a suitable option, integrating the system into their operations can be a challenge.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Many Main Street SMBs, local restaurants and designer boutiques are doing it for the first time. Not surprisingly, to make consumers more comfortable shopping and checking out in their stores, retailers have rushed to enable a “ contactless ” payment experience. Gas stations are encouraging it. Uber and Starbucks pioneered it.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

ImageSurge, a Boston-based unattended retail service provider, is looking to change the way consumers window shop. Here’s a preview: So far, Alshine said, imageSurge has been adopted by more than 150 retail storefronts and dozens of real estate companies throughout the U.S. ” Around the Unattended Retail world.

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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! –

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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. But surcharging as a topic of conversation in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Operating in concert with Mastercard and Neiman Marcus, the store will offer a range of items segmented into three categories relating to the magazine’s three core areas: @work, @play and @peak. Since Marie Claire is working with Neiman Marcus as its retail partner, they are styling outfits that fit into those three segments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. percent of all retail sales. consumers — 47.2 Share of U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

That retail is changing rapidly — and that many of its oldest and most established players are struggling to keep pace — is not much of a surprise these days. Everyone knows retailers are in trouble — at this point, the whole market knows it. And retailers also know they have a problem,” said Arish Ali, CEO of Skava.

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MyBankTracker

MAY 7, 2021

The company’s core product offerings revolve around insurance and operates as a subsidiary of a Canadian-based company called Manulife. John Hancock, also known as The John Hancock Life Insurance Company, was founded in 1862 with operations based mainly in Boston, Massachusetts. Background on John Hancock.

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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. Housing (18.5

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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. The Complex Future.

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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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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

These brands are basically separate products that offer a digital-first experience to a certain demographic, but are closely tied to the main bank. The second type is a completely separate brand ring-fenced under a different technology stack, operating under the umbrella of the parent organization but effectively a separate entity.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

For Main Street businesses, to say 2020 was challenging is an understatement. According to PYMNTS data, more than 60 percent of Main Street firms have at least three channels operating to drive sales: online, at physical stores and mobile. Will it be enough to save every SMB pummeled by the pandemic this year?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

It will also push its expansion farther – so that perhaps someday the people of Boston and Maine can too know the joy of the Fatrburger lifestyle. It will, however, be a franchise-only operation. If the IPO is successful and it can get to that $20-million mark – Fatburger will officially trade under the ticker symbol FAT.

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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. Researchers found that just 17 percent of retail banks rated their digital transformation strategies as “optimal.”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2017

RI and YG: Our pricing model works very similar to any retail convenience store. RI and YG: We see our main competition as, simply put, convenience stores. This means faster and more cost-efficient delivery, as we don’t spend on other stores to operate, making us a true “one-stop shop.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

That was one of the main messages from a recent PYMNTS discussion featuring Karen Webster and Vaduvur Bharghavan (who goes by VB), the president and CEO of Ondot Systems. 25) that it will sell its StubHub ticketing operations to online ticket reseller Viagogo Entertainment Inc. The marketplace said Monday (Nov. for $4 billion.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

The Index includes in-depth research on more than 100 retailers across the U.S. To compile the index, researchers in Boston; Chicago; Charlottesville, Virginia; and Seattle shopped merchants across three channels: web, app, and in-store. The main obstacles preventing them from evolving into omnichannel merchants?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

The game will be the main event for most people, particularly for fans in Boston and Philadelphia, as both cities are known for being ever so slightly fanatical about their sports teams. [GO Offered in conjunction with Postmates, the service will be available in the 40 metro markets in which Postmates currently operates.

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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.). I think that if you are any company, not just a retailer, and you define yourself by the widgets you supply by opposition to what you do for your customers, you will get commoditized. The product isn’t the point.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. Apple’s first retail store overhaul in 15 years is hailed by just about everyone as a Grand Slam Home Run – and the store hasn’t even opened yet (it will, in SF, on Saturday). But they, like so many storied retail brands, are going through a bit of a spiraling down.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

That’s the only way the business can ultimately continue to create value for its customers, create jobs for people, serve the ecosystem in which it operates and provide tax revenues. So, Amazon hasn’t just benefited its customers: It has forced retailers to lower prices and increase their levels of service.

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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. . Most local liquor store retailers don’t have websites, which means that they don’t have online product catalogues for starters. This round will help us really drive awareness.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The game will be the main event for most people – particularly for fans in Boston and Philadelphia as both cities are known for being ever so slightly fanatical about their sports teams. [GO PATS!!!!]. Offered in conjunction with Postmates, the service will be available in the 40 metro markets that Postmates operates in.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

They provide physical or virtual platforms (like a shopping mall) for multiple groups (like retailers and shoppers) to get together. Put yourselves in the shoes of the Revolution Money team back in 2007, pitching its platform to retailers and consumers. Why New Mobile and IoT Operating Systems Will Mainly Fizzle.

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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. Ed Bachelder, payments consultant. Epperson, a managing director at the global business advisory firm AlixPartners LLP.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

Community banks need to take advantage of the digitalization of banking operations.”. ? You don’t go to school to learn how to become head of deposit operations. We’re all competing for the same people, and a lot of the younger people want to live in Boston, so attracting young talent is a challenge,” he says. By Elizabeth Judd.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

It’s Main Street vs Infinite Loop in the major new blogbuster from CHYP End… welcome to… Pay Another Day. From Apple Pay brings significant increase in mobile payments to retailers like Whole Foods and McDonald’s, increases awareness of Google Wallet and… | Killer Apps TV ]. A meeting at his favourite place in Boston, Post 390.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

This small business is a really small business: a guy working out of a teeny tiny storefront in a little town north of Boston. That would ignore the fact that there’s a huge swath of SMBs who operate just like him and bank at one of the 13,198 banks that have not yet connected to the Zelle network — lots of them very small.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Because Ollie’s food is packaged fresh and doesn’t use preservatives, the firm doesn’t just specialize in making dog foods, it also specializes in running cold-chain, or temperature-controlled operations out of its three distribution centers in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Reno, Oklahoma; and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While the rules against prop trading have more recently been loosened, the restriction has still changed how investment banks operate. Even as the regulation pendulum swings back toward more limited oversight, how investment banks operate is fundamentally changing. Table of contents. The disruption of the IPO.

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

In the past decade, restaurant and bar purchases have grown at twice the rate of general retail spending. Vegan fast casual: By Chloe (NYC, Boston, LA, Providence, London). The restaurant has 12 current locations, in New York, LA, Providence, Boston, and most recently London, and another 20 are planned. table of contents.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2017

And even in the remaining 36 states where the sky won’t go completely dark, Americans from Hawaii to Maine will be able to see a partial eclipse. Historically, human beings have reacted strangely to two hours of darkness during daylight hours, although for those of us living in Boston we just call it winter. More on those later.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

What we will say is that fun times with family, the dazzling display of fireworks and the perfunctory cookouts and beach time, truly and totally make this upcoming weekend one very big sizzle wrapped around what appears to be in Boston, at least, abundant doses of sunshine. Seriously a Sizzle! Circuit of Appeals in New York. Like stuff.

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