PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Cosi, the Boston-based sandwich chain renowned for its flatbread sandwiches, filed for bankruptcy in a Boston courtroom. Cosi operated 74 company-owned restaurants and 31 franchised restaurants in 15 states at the time of filing. Fitch based its findings on a study of 30 recent retail bankruptcy cases involving a total of $10.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The digital transformation of the commerce ecosystem, which had been underway long before COVID-19 reared its ugly head, flipped into overdrive overnight, as consumers were forced to change their habits and shift almost everything they once did in real life to an online substitute. The Power of Persistence.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

One of the best things that happened last week was the reopening of hair salons in Boston. And that will become this salon’s standard operating procedure going forward. It doesn’t appear that this experience is exclusive to fancy hair salons in Boston. This latest study of a national sample of U.S. Don’t Touch This.

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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.

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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.

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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. It can’t do that, certainly not as well, without collecting lots of data.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

These programs — which include apps like GrubHub, Foodler, Favor, Seamless and DoorDash – operate independently of merchants, acting as middlemen between in-home consumers and various eateries. Also, Mintel’s Foodservice Trends 2016 report found that 77 percent of Americans said they would use online food delivery services.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

When Raphael Reznek, CIO of Mascoma Bank, spoke about the biggest challenge to launch online account opening: "our internal culture". Such as studying the effect of computers on print culture, or changing the culture of materialism over time. I attended Bank Director's Acquire or Be Acquired conference two weeks ago.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Long before innovators began talking about the power of ecosystems to transform commerce, scientists spent centuries studying them under microscopes in their labs. Some spend much more in cities like Boston, New York and San Francisco. But that’s just one side of the Uber ecosystem. Fleets As The Fuel.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Consumer studies the Boston firm has conducted indicate increasing mobile-banking adoption and awareness and use of mobile remote-deposit capture applications. But, overwhelmingly, consumers who pay for goods and services online, including over mobile channels, do so with a credit card. Today’s mobile options.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

56 percent of consumers would like more control over their own digital data, according to studies. The shift to increased transacting online means people are becoming more interested and comfortable with online banking. the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston said, “To date, U.S. In the U.S.,

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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. PayPal subsidiary Venmo’s forthcoming Venmo Card operates in a similar fashion. It also has a Chrome plug-in to support online shopping.

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PopularBank

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Popular Bank Associate Trainee Program is a select, 10-month rotational program for top-tier recent college graduates that exposes trainees to the diverse lines of the bank’s businesses, operations, policies and practices. Did the program specifically relate to, or draw from, what you studied in college? Meet Katia.

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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. Expertise: An experienced operator’s perspective on a problem and the different ways that it can be solved.

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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.

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Banking 2020

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Some studies estimate that there are 28 million small businesses in the U.S., This can come from two areas: the efficiency of the back office in serving all customers (including small businesses), and the efficiency of online banking solutions for small businesses. representing more than $6 trillion in revenue.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Fall has arrived in Boston and we are sizzling. Witness the power of platforms on top of platforms operating at scale. 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. They were ….

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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. The subjects of common facial recognition training datasets, for instance, are estimated to be over 75% male and 80% white, according to a 2019 study conducted by the Brookings Institute.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Australian music streaming company Guvera has reportedly stopped operating, with its co-founder and biggest financial backer walking away from the project. and a dearth of people with technical, operational experience running energy facilities. The lack of people with real operational experience “hurt KiOR a lot,” says O’Connor.

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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

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Doorman says it will no longer accept incoming shipments after September 29th and that those who use their Doorman address for online shipments should update their information. “We Raptr, the online optimization platform founded by former pro gamer Dennis “Thresh” Fong a decade ago, is about to be shuttered. Product: Raptr.

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