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Are Retailers Ready For Amazon?s Prime Time?

PYMNTS

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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28 Percent Of Consumers Cite Coupons As Most Important Beauty Merchant Feature

PYMNTS

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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Amid Blockchain And Robotics Hype, Corporate Lenders Still Start With The Cloud

PYMNTS

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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FinovateSpring 2016 Live Blog – Day 2

William Mills

Portfolio outlooks, recommendation.Provide retail and advisory users the insight they need with Polly Portfolio. This looks like a polling tool, to get quick client feedback, mostly about current events. The fact that this is an automated tool means it lacks authenticity. Svyatoslav Ostrovsky (Head of Retail Digital Business).

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Chatbots And The Future Of Facebook Messenger

PYMNTS

Facebook – through Messenger – is going all in on chatbots as a tool to engage consumers and give businesses new tools to reach them. I never did get the answer to what I thought was a simple question on Saturday afternoon: “What’s the weather going to be on Monday, April 18, for the Boston Marathon?”

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

In the middle market (deals worth between $10M to $1B in value), private, online networks and SaaS tools are giving smaller company executives and brokers the ability to conduct M&A transactions on their own more quickly and far more affordably. Even some big companies are opting to go it alone when it comes to mergers & acquisitions.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

PYMNTS

In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. Department stores used to dominate retail , and shopping was always done in a physical store. Today, despite the story the U.S. Is that Amazon’s fault?

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