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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. One hundred and ten (110) million U.S. consumers — 47.2

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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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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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OCTOBER 19, 2020

It’s why recommendations are consistently ranked by consumers as one of the most important features a merchant can offer an online shopper, why merchants gladly oblige and why brands strive to make products that are consistently ranked high by consumers. Saving Main Street. Even more of them are closing.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 18, 2017

A recent acquisition spree including Jet.com gives the retail giant much-needed digital chops by Brad Stone and Matthew Boyle from Bloomberg Business Week Last summer, Marc Lore, founder and chief executive officer of e-commerce startup Jet.com Inc., AMAZON IS DOMINATING” reads a slide on a large screen behind him.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

A study conducted in late March illustrated a similar shift, finding that 30 percent of consumers reported using contactless methods like cards and smartphones for the first time after the pandemic hit. In-Person Retail, eCommerce Drive CNP Purchasing. One credit card network reported that U.S.

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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. Brennan, CVS Health’s chief medical officer, because it came backed by rigorous published studies. Boston Med has offered Sleepio since 2016. It was chosen, according to Dr. Troyen A.

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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

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 SMB Pinch.

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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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JUNE 1, 2020

Not surprisingly, to make consumers more comfortable shopping and checking out in their stores, retailers have rushed to enable a “ contactless ” payment experience. One of the best things that happened last week was the reopening of hair salons in Boston. This latest study of a national sample of U.S. Like payments terminals.

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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.

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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. While the store is a first for Nike, it’s part of a bigger trend in retail — product and inventory localization. First Name.

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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

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. percent of all retail sales to 6.4 If and when they no longer do, they won’t.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

Passport has designed similar mobile applications for the transportation systems in Chicago, Toronto and Boston. The study found that both millennials and non-millennials want to use mobile to manage finances, and cash is becoming less important to both groups.

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Banking 2020

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

There are lessons to be learned from experiences in retail. Well, there’s no doubt about this one: retail. Yes, retail for sure—a quick search online turns up hundreds of stories about retail omni-channel. In fact, 38% of retailers say this is a top priority. Wearable technologies? Social channels?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

In fact, we’re seeing it happen in a variety of retail, banking and broader commerce pilots and prototypes today. Their study concluded that routines are shaped by how the brain’s neurons process information about the cost and benefit of switching things up – or not, and sticking with the status quo. Here’s why.

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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. They want to look at their device and know the balance and pay a bill in real-time, rather than input it online.

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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. However, this isn’t the whole story.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2016

In fact, we’ll reveal a new study soon that will document that botnets have become the No. 1 source of online fraud. 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?” Remember ZeuS ? Consumers also love apps.

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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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NCR

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

This is a message that US banks appear to be hearing loud and clear, at least according to the findings of a recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. This is blurring the lines between mobile, ecommerce and physical retail environments, allowing both merchants and consumers to benefit from easier mobile options.

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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. Android Pay on a watch does not actually even need an internet connection for a limited number of transactions (though to fully complete the transaction the watch must eventually go online).

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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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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

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. GET THE 54-PAGE RETAIL TRENDS REPORT. Not all in-store retailers have fallen out of favor with millennials the way department stores have. The way we shop is changing.

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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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2017

If you’re a chipmunk in Boston, you might not want to venture far or even stay out a long time when the weather is cold or snowy. Just like the consumer that every retailer and innovator hopes to attract makes their decisions about where and how to shop in the physical store. There’s some interesting data to back it up.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Steering the ship — handling all of the engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and retailing, even when you’re taking 90 percent of the subsequent profits — was ultimately too expensive of a proposition, especially in comparison to other, less-handholding-oriented start-ups. via Beta Boston. via MDDI Online. via Boston Magazine.

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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

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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