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. A PYMNTS study paints an even more grim picture, at least for brick-and-mortar stores.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

But for all the glories of summer — long days, vacations and a built-in excuse to substitute ice cream for any actual meal — summer does have one asterisk for retailers in the U.S. So what fun in the sun can the nation’s retailers expect this year? However, across the U.S. Strange, but not necessarily bad.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

Boston-based agricultural tech company Freight Farms , for example, grows produce inside of shipping containers. The Mushroom Market. The market for mushrooms is just so strong, especially local mushrooms,” DeMartino said, adding that beautiful exotic fungi have good margins. The New Produce Section.

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Cisco

MAY 29, 2019

In retail banking, it’s clear customer experience matters, and the stakes have never been higher. Study after study confirms the importance of providing personalized, integrated experiences for satisfaction and retention of financial services customers. Opportunity #1: When opening a new account. According to the J.D.

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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. Source: PYMNTS.com longitudinal study of over 40,000 consumers (data from the most recent panel on Nov. consumers — 47.2

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Depending on where you look, the shift to cashless has been dictated by market forces, or by government guidance. Recent reports note that China – specifically, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) – has said that a test of a CBDC has been focused on small retail transactions. of course, is not standing still.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Cosi, the Boston-based sandwich chain renowned for its flatbread sandwiches, filed for bankruptcy in a Boston courtroom. Will Sears be the next major retailer to file for bankruptcy? ” Those retailers who made Fitch’s list are: Sears Holdings Corp., And how many more could follow after that? Claire’s Stores, Inc.,

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Cisco

MAY 29, 2019

In retail banking, it’s clear customer experience matters, and the stakes have never been higher. Study after study confirms the importance of providing personalized, integrated experiences for satisfaction and retention of financial services customers. Opportunity #1: When opening a new account. According to the J.D.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

There’s a rule of thumb at fast food and quick-serve restaurants (QSR): a seven-second reduction in customer wait time results in an average 1 percent gain in market share. A 2014 study by Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management found that’s the case, revealing evidence to support that seven-second rule of thumb.

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 20, 2017

Those who’ve followed the Model Bank Awards closely will note that our awards format has evolved to follow the market over the years. As for what you can expect between now and April 4 in Boston, look for a series of articles from the Celent analyst team highlighting some of the many insights that we’ve gleaned along the way.

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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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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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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2016

What followed over the next four decades was the evolution of a once familiar retail fixture – the carhop – who first walked, and then later roller skated their way into creating a convenient way of serving the customer. Retailers are having to find new ways of fulfilling shoppers’ orders.”. Pulling Up To Convenience .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2016

Using the retail purchases of two tickets, two hot dogs, two beers and parking (the last of which is arguably more of a rental than it is a purchase) as its median factors, the outlet determined that the average cost across all the venues is $77.92. It’s Fenway Park, home of the (Boston-based PYMNTS.com’s beloved) Boston Red Sox.

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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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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

JANUARY 24, 2017

The MIT Technology Review wrote that Mayo also has plans to conduct a similar study in China to determine if these features translate into other languages. The Mayo Clinic has linked some 13 vocal features in common from patients with heart disease.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2017

In February, it pledged to remove or reduce 90 controversial substances from its private-label products, including 26 pesticides, titanium dioxide and the “Southampton Six” food colors, which the Southampton study suggested may be linked to hyperactivity in children and which many European food manufacturers have eliminated.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2017

office workers, a daily lunch break just doesn’t happen — a study found just one in five employees take a lunch break during the workday, and 28 percent rarely or never take a lunch break. The service is available in several major metropolitan areas, including Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., In fact, for millions of U.S.

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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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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. See sidebar “Is Mobile Fully Catching On?”.).

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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. Traditional asset management companies are increasingly facing competition on both sides of the performance scale.

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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. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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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! We also saw, particularly in the retail space, the adoption of innovations in one market, transposed from another.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

We’ve been studying what makes platforms ignite , and why they often fail, for more than a decade. They provide physical or virtual platforms (like a shopping mall) for multiple groups (like retailers and shoppers) to get together. it is pretty easy to send and receive money, and it’s a cinch for people to pay retailers.

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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. That figure is forecast to reach $36 million by 2021.

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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.

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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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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

Six years and an expanding inventory of cars and price points later, Uber’s platform has a market cap of $70 billion, more than 1 million drivers across 400 cities worldwide who’ve delivered a 1 billion rides – and the first instance of what we now call “invisible” payments in the offline world. And monetize. And the more money they make.

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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. GET THE 54-PAGE RETAIL TRENDS REPORT.

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Banking 2020

OCTOBER 20, 2015

All of this occurs in an environment where technology takes center stage and business owners may consume retail (for their personal accounts) as well as business services at a given financial institution. Some studies estimate that there are 28 million small businesses in the U.S., representing more than $6 trillion in revenue.

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CB Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

T echnology trends and market needs are pushing companies to set their sights on the residential real estate and construction industry. Blokable was founded by Aaron Holm, who formerly spearheaded physical retail efforts at Amazon. However, tariffs in flux between the two countries could dampen the timber market.

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

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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. Meanwhile, it floated other plans, like starting a print catalogue and delivering for local retailers. Company: Rdio. via Forbes.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

And, yes, this likely sounds blasphemous from someone who’s been beating the mobile payments drum since 2005, well before the iPhone and the App Store changed how consumers, retailers and payments players all use mobile devices. The How We Will Pay study, done in collaboration with Visa and published last fall, made this point quite vividly.

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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. Unfortunately, we were not able to find our place in the market. But we just didn’t feel as confident in that market.”. Around 4 p.m.,

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