PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

And restaurant operators are aware. We want restaurants to work so badly that we are willing to lie to ourselves,” Heather Mojer, co-owner and beverage director at Boston-based Big Dipper Hospitality Group , operator of the Café Du Pays, Mamaleh’s Delicatessen and State Park restaurants, wrote in an Instagram post. “We

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

6) symposium highlighting the Fed’s approval of the FedNow system, Fed Gov. The most recent details on FedNow come roughly a year after the central bank announced its plans to build and operate real-time rails. FedNow Will Augment Private Systems, Not Replace Them . If all goes as planned, that is. In a Thursday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2017

In retail news, home goods eTailer Wayfair announced Friday (Sept. Currently available in 10 retail markets — including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York City and San Francisco, among others — Chain Store Age reports the new feature will “transform what is considered a time-consuming, even frustrating, process.”

San Francisco 101

San Francisco New York City Cleveland Detroit 101

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2018

But the fact that alcohol is age-restricted for consumers is only the start of the complexities around trying to sell it – the sale of it is also managed under what is known within the industry as the “three-tiered system.” Producers (or importers) sell to distributors, distributors sell to retailers and retailers sell to customers.

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Retail United States Boston System 128

PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

Skirting Cash Shortages at Boston Pride. Boston’s pride celebration is one of the season’s biggest events for Mandy Roberge, the owner and artist behind Wicked Good Henna. The 2018 Boston Pride parade reportedly saw more than 750,000 spectators and over 55,000 marchers. Customers] recognize the reader [I use],” Kim said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

ImageSurge, a Boston-based unattended retail service provider, is looking to change the way consumers window shop. Here’s a preview: So far, Alshine said, imageSurge has been adopted by more than 150 retail storefronts and dozens of real estate companies throughout the U.S. ” Around the Unattended Retail world.

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Retail Boston Mobile Technology 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Fostering this growth means enabling food truck operators to quickly accept customers’ payments as they dish out food and friendly service. Merchants must ensure their mPOS offerings seamlessly operate alongside existing fixed solutions. Frosty Ice Cream has deployed soft-serve trucks in the Boston area since 1958.

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Massachusetts Boston Cards Operations 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Looks like retail sales are back on the street. The IRS is committed to fairness in the tax system, and we want to remind people across all income categories that they need to file their taxes,” said Paul Mamo, director of collection operations for the agency’s small business and self-employed division.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Western Union’s history as a retail cross border remittance platform is moving money between people, largely via cash, within minutes. We move money in minutes on the retail side of our business, and asked ourselves whether we could move money in real time to an account or mobile wallet,” Ersek told Karen Webster.

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Payments Mobile Boston Retail 205

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

For those who operate restaurants or simply enjoy them, 2020 has been a nightmare. Many will continue leveraging the third-party delivery apps that sustained them until their on-premises operations restarted, but these apps come with a host of issues. cities, including Boston, Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C.”.

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Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

The best way for community banks to keep their profitability high is for their control systems to be working properly,” maintains Cathy Ghiglieri, president of Ghiglieri & Company in Pinehurst, N.C. Community banks need to take advantage of the digitalization of banking operations.”. ? Strengthen controls. Connors, Jr.,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2017

Tripodes has more than 15 years of franchising experience with Boston Restaurant & Sports Bar, Bojangles and Moe’s Southwest Grill, among others. Furthermore, the corporate stores will serve as a trial run for new ideas in restaurant technology and operational flow to increase efficiency.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. This newfound friction is the result of the City of Boston passing a bill that bans plastic bags and gives merchants the right to charge for ones made of paper. But surcharging as a topic of conversation in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2018

That is, can several small deliveries serve a store better than one big truckload — even when the store is playing dual roles as a physical retail distribution space and a fulfillment center for digital orders? A True Contender In The Race Against Amazon. A few hundred stores out of Target’s 1,829 U.S.

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Strategy New York City South Carolina San Francisco 108

PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

The loyal customer is increasingly the holy grail of retail — everyone wants to create them, but in an environment littered with discounts, digital offers and competing influence, holding a customer’s attention is not exactly easy work. That is the lowest for any vertical in retail. Which is where Bridg enters the picture.

Los Angeles 100

Los Angeles social media Retail Marketing 100

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As internet retailers are expanding their operations into brick-and-mortar operations (think Warby Parker, Argent, Bonobos, and BaubleBar ), venture capitalists are also investing in “physical-first” startups focused on creating new brick-and-mortar business models. New Frontiers in Retail Tech. RESTAURANTS.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

That retail is changing rapidly — and that many of its oldest and most established players are struggling to keep pace — is not much of a surprise these days. Everyone knows retailers are in trouble — at this point, the whole market knows it. And retailers also know they have a problem,” said Arish Ali, CEO of Skava.

Retail 116

Retail Mobile Miami Marketing 116

PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2018

That growth came, in part, at the expense of bill-paying sites and services operated by banks. It cites a figure from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston that says more than 80 percent of rent payments are made via cash or paper checks. They accounted for 27 percent of online bill payments in 2016, down from 38 percent in 2010.

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Industry Payments Online Boston 105

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Put on a Retail Happy Face. Yup, physical retail is doing just fine — despite all the talk of doom and gloom. Yet, according to Fung Global Retail & Technology, 6,985 stores closed in 2017 , up 229 percent from 2016, and well above the number of stores which closed in the year that started physical retail’s death spiral: 2008.

Big Data 135

Big Data Data Retail Marketing 135

PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

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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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

Take Flippy, the burger-flipping robot created by Miso Robotics and deployed at select CaliBurger restaurants, which could, one day, fully automate kitchen operations for the QSR. It wouldn’t actually function at all without human employees to operate it — the robotic kitchen is a tool, not a replacement, she said.

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Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 11, 2014

According to a 2012 Boston College Center for Retirement Research study , 63% of American males (why only males I do not know) participated exclusively in defined contribution (DC) retirement plans in 2007, up from 47% in 1992. If so, we have to ask ourselves if we have the personnel, processes, and systems to execute on such a strategy.

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Boston DC Community Community Bank 84

NCR

OCTOBER 3, 2016

If government proposals come to fruition, financial institutions in the UK will soon be operating in an ‘ open banking ‘ environment. Some of the reforms are still a couple of years away, but could have a transformative effect on the retail banking industry as we know it. Image Credit: iStock/Franck-Boston.

Retail 98

Retail Boston Industry Management 98

PYMNTS

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. percent of all retail sales. consumers — 47.2 Share of U.S.

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Apple Study Innovation Survey 227

Celent Banking

MAY 31, 2016

While my colleagues were spread out across the US covering conferences in Boston, New Orleans, and other locations, I spent four days in beautiful Barcelona covering the Temenos TCF 2016 Conference , followed by another three days in sunny Orlando covering the FIS Connect 2016 Conference. Stay tuned!

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Conference Community Bank Boston Technology 100

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

That was one of the main messages from a recent PYMNTS discussion featuring Karen Webster and Vaduvur Bharghavan (who goes by VB), the president and CEO of Ondot Systems. 25) that it will sell its StubHub ticketing operations to online ticket reseller Viagogo Entertainment Inc. The marketplace said Monday (Nov. for $4 billion.

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Google Mobile Data Capital 129

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. It’s an experience that retailers are embracing and investing heavily in. Consider this.

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Mobile Innovation Apple Study 205

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

fans traveling to Boston for the start of the World Series will want to pack — and possibly purchase for the first time — sweaters, as this week will be an excellent opportunity to enjoy New England’s crisp fall weather. The reported goal is to reorganize the retailer around a smaller footprint of 700 stores. locations at its peak.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

Customer contact centers are reshaping retail service for the technology age. But in today’s world of proliferating digital devices and communication options, customer contact centers, once operating primarily as telephone switchboards, are turning into full-service and multichannel communication hubs. Bob Meara, retail banking expert.

Community Bank 70

Community Bank Community Operations Retail 70

PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

The operative word is control. “I We have a robust system that provides deep date customer a behavior and offer stats and many other management tools, and we will be rolling out new features throughout 2020.”. Consumers can inquire directly with restaurants about existing promotions.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Digital banking subsidiaries : Many banks are finding that existing systems are too rigid to accommodate a truly digital experience. The second type is a completely separate brand ring-fenced under a different technology stack, operating under the umbrella of the parent organization but effectively a separate entity.

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Customer Experience Branding Boston Innovation 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

This small business is a really small business: a guy working out of a teeny tiny storefront in a little town north of Boston. That would ignore the fact that there’s a huge swath of SMBs who operate just like him and bank at one of the 13,198 banks that have not yet connected to the Zelle network — lots of them very small.

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Payments Innovation Boston Branding 195

PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

And Boston-based D rizly ’s news yesterday of its $15 million in Series B funding was a noteworthy milestone, for sure. . Most local liquor store retailers don’t have websites, which means that they don’t have online product catalogues for starters. This round will help us really drive awareness.

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Comparison Retail Boston Online 100

PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. Apple’s first retail store overhaul in 15 years is hailed by just about everyone as a Grand Slam Home Run – and the store hasn’t even opened yet (it will, in SF, on Saturday). But they, like so many storied retail brands, are going through a bit of a spiraling down.

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Bitcoin Fraud Mobile Apple 109

PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2017

Jim Harper, CEO of Sonde Health in Boston, which is working on voice tests to monitor for postpartum depression, Parkinson’s and dementia, was quoted as saying: “We’re trying to make this ubiquitous and universal by engineering a technology that allows our software to operate on mobile phones and a range of other voice-enabled devices.”.

Google 100

Google Study Boston New York 100

CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

15 of the top 20 operate in the Greater Bay Area. He received his MBA in 1993 from UT Austin before joining Credit Suisse First Boston as an Equity Research Analyst, where he focused on computer hardware and software. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. BILL GURLEY.

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San Francisco CA Capital Operations 71

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Technology enthusiasts draw pictures on whiteboards showing bots as the new king of the stack, out-stacking the last great stack — apps, which sit on top of the next-to-last great stack — mobile operating systems, which sit on top of the next-to-next-to-last great stack — the web. We take our weather very seriously in Boston.

Payments 100

Payments Mobile Apple Google 100