PYMNTS

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. The mattress market alone is worth a whopping $15 billion. Brennan, CVS Health’s chief medical officer, because it came backed by rigorous published studies. billion globally by 2020.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

Online brands are growing their presence in the physical world by bringing their products into brick-and-mortar stores. The beauty brand has also launched pop-up shops in cities like Miami, Austin, London, and Boston. retailers as online shopping powers a forecast 26 percent year-over-year volume surge on National Returns Day.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

retail and apparel markets are nearing recession levels, tripling in the past six years. We’ve quickly learned that online and in-store shoppers end up being our most valuable customers,” said Lewis. “So, The widely shared consensus is that this could all get quite a bit worse for physical retail before it gets better.

Chicago 102

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Cosi, the Boston-based sandwich chain renowned for its flatbread sandwiches, filed for bankruptcy in a Boston courtroom. The outcome in either case is that the bankrupt retailer has lost its place in the market and thus has limited value as a going concern.”. billion in debt.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Currently offered in a session subscription payment method, Handstand is available in Los Angeles and Orange County; the plan is to roll it out to Boston, New York, San Francisco and Chicago. TOH: I was always an athlete, and I went to college at USC where I studied business. We’re launching New York and Boston soon.

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NCR

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

With smartphones now saturating the market and people all over the world regarding their handset as their primary, if not only, computing device, there’s no excuse for not providing a high-quality, full-featured service on this platform. Mobile banking everywhere, payments less so.

Mobile 72

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a way to avoid app downloads. Passport has designed similar mobile applications for the transportation systems in Chicago, Toronto and Boston. Samsung May Beat Android Pay And Apple Pay In Tapping The African Market.

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Cisco

MAY 29, 2019

Study after study confirms the importance of providing personalized, integrated experiences for satisfaction and retention of financial services customers. And it’s not just about happy customers… Boston Consulting Group data indicates personalizing customer journeys can lead to a 10-30% increase in revenue.

Customer Experience 72

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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. That curiosity was piqued by my walks to the office when I am in town (I live in Beacon Hill in Boston) and my mental counts of the number of Amazon boxes I see out on trash day.

Retail 167

Retail Online Branding Analysis 167

Cisco

MAY 29, 2019

Study after study confirms the importance of providing personalized, integrated experiences for satisfaction and retention of financial services customers. And it’s not just about happy customers… Boston Consulting Group data indicates personalizing customer journeys can lead to a 10-30% increase in revenue.

Customer Experience 48

Customer Experience Retail San Diego Study 48

PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2016

“The idea of curbside pickup is that shoppers are demanding the ability to get purchases however they want and wherever they want,” said Laura Kennedy, director of retail insights at Boston-based Kantar Retail. “A The data show that operating earnings from sales have declined by up to 25 percent as a result of a shift from in-store to online.

St. Louis 102

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PopularBank

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Laura studied finance and economics at the University of Alabama, where she credits her experience studying abroad in Madrid for giving her a “sense of adventure.” Did the program specifically relate to, or draw from, what you studied in college? Did the program specifically relate to, or draw from, what you studied in college?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

For those charged with managing the consumer’s trust and safety when transacting online, and in the midst of increasingly clever cybercrooks, being comfortable going against the status quo flow has become much more important than ever before, he said. Some consumers will take the bait, of course, but most won’t.

Cards 169

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Reducing technology costs and local market savvy can enable community banks to become equal competitors in the mobile and digital footrace, but they’ll need to begin taking steps soon and planning strategically. But, overwhelmingly, consumers who pay for goods and services online, including over mobile channels, do so with a credit card.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

The Good … The really good news about summer for retailers is that the temperature is their ally — well, at least for those retailers in the Northeast, assuming that it warms back up again in Boston (from 92 to 62 in 24 hours is a bit much …). Also, energy consumption spikes, but often in hard to predict ways. .

Retail 100

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Banking 2020

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Regardless of how and why they hit the market, some technology-driven innovations seem to lend themselves to particular vertical markets and/or disciplines. Revolutionizing every aspect of sales and marketing in the process? Yes, retail for sure—a quick search online turns up hundreds of stories about retail omni-channel.

Retail 40

Retail Strategy Boston Industry 40

PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

Recent market research performed by the NPD Group revealed that delivery traffic outside of pizza has expanded by 33 percent since 2012. Also, Mintel’s Foodservice Trends 2016 report found that 77 percent of Americans said they would use online food delivery services. That’s a hearty slice of the delivery pie. About the Index.

Resources 102

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Banking 2020

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Some studies estimate that there are 28 million small businesses in the U.S., The key is to understand the businesses’ needs in order to upsell and cross-sell effectively through targeted marketing and promotions. representing more than $6 trillion in revenue. However, revenue is just one part of the equation.

How To 40

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Notable projects: The Mayo Clinic OB Nest explores ways for women with low-risk pregnancies to reduce the number of their in-person doctor visits through a combination of dedicated nurses, a special online community, and in-home monitoring. Boston Children’s Hospital — Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA). Founded: 2015.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

This summer, Nike unveiled its latest brick-and-mortar venture in Los Angeles: Nike by Melrose, a physical store that uses local online shopping data to determine its in-store inventory. And there’s a lot to gain from this trend: 63% of consumers are interested in personalized recommendations from retailers, according to a recent study.

Retail 64

Retail Los Angeles Strategy Community 64

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In banking, collaboration — between the traditional players like banks and the tech savvy FinTechs bringing a slew of new apps to market — is key. 56 percent of consumers would like more control over their own digital data, according to studies. the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston said, “To date, U.S. In the U.S.,

Fintech 285

Fintech Data Regulation Innovation 285

Tefkin

JUNE 3, 2014

By automatically tracking indexes, they offer investors the possibility to obtain market performance at a lower cost than a typical managed funds. The study focused on 21- to 29-year-olds with $75,000 in income or $50,000 in investable cash, and 30- to 36-year-olds with $100,000 in income or assets. Scrutiny on Performance.

Industry 42

Industry Management Innovation Analysis 42

CB Insights

AUGUST 2, 2018

US consumers aged 18+ make an average of 70 payments per month, with debit cards accounting for 32% of those purchases, according to a 2017 study by the Boston Fed. It also has a Chrome plug-in to support online shopping. Rumor: Klarna is expanding into new markets, with new products. ux to help target existing clients.

Cards 71

Cards Fintech UX Strategy 71

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Samsung’s global march added another stopping point this week, as Thailand became the latest nation to come online for Samsung Pay. And, it should be noted, Samsung has great expectations for the Thai market and has set a goal of attracting 1 million users to the platform by the end of the year. Apple’s Adding Merchants.

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CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. They used every available resource to understand industries, markets, consumer sentiment, and companies’ product lines.

Strategy 78

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Fall has arrived in Boston and we are sizzling. It’s a perfect case study – happening in real time – of how platforms use their scale on both sides to enter new markets – drivers and consumers – and monetize the value of their platform. Regular” is defined as a shopper who shops online once a month or more).

Retail 100

Retail New York Marketing Regulation 100

CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

E-commerce sales growth is pulling ahead of total retail sales ( 17% vs. 6% for year-over-year in Q4’17), and Amazon is controlling upwards of 40% of online sales in the US, according to the US Department of Commerce and Slice Intelligence, respectively. ” — Alistair Davidson, CFO, Ikea. Its membership fee revenue grew 12.6%

Retail 59

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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. Savvy marketers at struggling cereal brands may be able to reverse their fortunes with the millennial set. Millennials value spending their money ethically. .

Millennials 78

Millennials Industry Trends Branding 78

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. While still relatively new, biometric technology is a growing market , and its advantages are driving increased adoption. Challenges: unproven studies and inconvenience .

Meeting 101

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

But a few common threads do emerge, such as an inability to generate sustainable revenue, bad product-market fit, losing to competitors, and (of course) simply running out of money. via Beta Boston. As you’ll see below, the reasons for failure are varied. The Top 20 Reasons Startups Fail. Total disclosed funding: $185.3M.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

The How We Will Pay study, done in collaboration with Visa and published last fall, made this point quite vividly. The consumers we studied in the How We Will Pay survey want the ability to buy things while doing other things: cooking, cleaning, watching the kids, watching TV, commuting, working, traveling. Of those customers, 8.9

Mobile 205

Mobile Innovation Apple Study 205

CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Fresco’s head of community marketing, Johnathan Hamiter, began sending employees private Slack messages saying funding seemed “pretty bleak” and encouraging them to look for other jobs. Raptr, the online optimization platform founded by former pro gamer Dennis “Thresh” Fong a decade ago, is about to be shuttered.

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Company US San Francisco Capital 78