Bobsguide

JULY 7, 2022

Financial institutions and retail brands gain a new embedded finance platform to help consumers access regulated loans at point-of-sale, powered by Banking as a Service. And for financial institutions, Finastra Embedded Consumer Lending provides access to a marketplace of distributors and merchants to distribute their banking products.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Beyond New York, the retailer is planning to extend that experiential approach to partner locations, “offering the world that one-of-a-kind toy retail experience the brand is known for,” according to an announcement from the company, which is owned by ThreeSixty Brands. percent stake in Starbucks.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

Parker continued, “We’re now focused on creating an environment that highlights our heritage and allows consumers to deeply connect with the brand as they prepare for their own exploration, wherever it may be.”. There will also be a “museum-like archive” of athlete expeditions as well as “significant icon products.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2019

Members purchased millions of Alexa-enabled devices, received tens of millions of dollars in savings by shopping from Whole Foods Market and bought more than $2 billion of products from independent small and medium-sized businesses. Courting the Cool Kids: Luring Exclusive Brands With a Dedicated Accelerator .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

These are some of the reasons that consumers are visiting brick-and-mortar grocers – from Wegmans Food Markets to Kroger – and how these grocers (as well as technology providers) are rolling out innovations and features to serve in-store customers. Roughly three in 10 – or 27.1 About one in 10 – or 9.9

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The message, which The Wall Street Journal said it viewed, noted that workers are seeking to “collectively voice [their] concerns to Whole Foods Market and Amazon leadership.”. The spokesperson also said that employees at the grocer are reassured that they can talk to their managers about concerns in the workplace.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

High-level market intelligence about the $18 billion expected to be invested over the next three years is a major focus of the March 2020 Automated Retail Tracker™ from PYMNTS , which serves as a bimonthly breakdown of developments in this rapidly growing business sector. UR Making Me Laugh.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

12) that it is partnering with Instacart in four test markets. As such, it is a highly synergistic partnership that will benefit both companies once extended to a larger selection of markets. The Instacart partnership will definitely get some attention in Seattle. Walmart made the announcement on Wednesday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The players are many — but in the last year and a half, Walmart, Amazon and Kroger have managed to pull ahead in the earliest rounds of the race in terms of the breadth and depth of their enhanced offerings for consumers. For food, they want to see the brands and the products and confirm they will be fresh and quality.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Consumers don’t have to be Amazon Prime members (or Seattle-area residents living near the first Amazon Go markets) to have a checkout-free grocery experience. Imagr itself reportedly aims to achieve significant penetration in markets across Australia, the U.K., Europe and America by 2022. 22 report by Recode.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2017

Customers who scan their own groceries aren’t dawdling in a gauntlet of temptations like in the olden days of grocery shopping; they’re in and out of the store as fast as they can possibly manage. Amazon has a cashier-less grocery store, Amazon Go, in beta testing near its Seattle headquarters. No waiting in line. billion in sales – 2.2

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 3, 2017

The Seattle-based company announced this week that Korst will join Avalara as its new chief marketing officer and executive vice president. Previous to Microsoft, Korst served as vice president and general manager at T-Mobile, and senior product marketing manager at AT&T Wireless/Cingular.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2016

have been picked up and deposited on the shoulders of brands in Merry Old England. More troubling, said Philip Duffy, joint administrator of the BHS bid, was the market forces that seemed to push BHS toward its inevitable liquidated fate. After a lengthy period stuck in administration, the U.K.’s 2015, and at $369.99

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

We staff all of our stores with recycling experts so that customers can learn how to recycle or dispose of items properly, how our product offerings can replace their disposable, everyday use items, how they can contribute to the circular economy and more,” says Erin Harbour, retail manager at Recology CleanScapes. “In

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

The latest and perhaps biggest domino in home improvement retail to fall to Amazon’s have-it-your-way style of concierge services is Lowe’s and its subsidiary furniture and lighting specialty brand, ATG Stores. The bottom line? But it’s been interesting because it’s actually galvanized everyone.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2017

Shoppers can then view content chronicling the fish’s journey, starting with the fisherman, on through the sales manager and finally to the fishmonger, all caught fresh by SnapChat Spectacles. In the American Southeast, Instacart and Publix Super Market are teaming up to provide same-day grocery delivery to all Publix Super Market customers.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 23, 2022

So here we go again with the upcoming launch of Zion Bancorp’s Zifi brand. They are currently creating a waitlist and experimenting with search engine advertising (that’s where I saw it first, ad based on my Google search for “best small business banks” from a Seattle IP address). Bid management tools. Customer management tools.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2017

Amazon also managed to lower some of its operating costs as it also saw an uptick in subscription and advertising revenue. “So Amazon Web Services — the firm’s cash printing press that had attracted investor interest after slightly underperforming analyst expectations last quarter — also managed a beat, reporting $3.66 billion and $37.75

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

Scout saw its first tests in Amazon’s Seattle backyard — and company officials predict California will prove an easier testing ground with it sunnier and milder weather. Surescripts manages 80 percent of all U.S. And the ongoing PillPack drama wasn’t the only rocky sailing of the week. Amazon was not available immediately for comment.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2018

billion is the projected size of the interactive kiosk market by 2023. In 2016, for example, Amazon began running pop-up kiosks for Kindle eBooks in convenience stores around the Seattle area, GeekWire reported. Kiosks can be implemented for a variety of products — even eReaders.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

What is the force that is managing to keep these outliers alive? So strong is the desire to maintain the tactile experience of video rental in Seattle, in fact, that the city’s once-struggling Scarecrow Video has found new life as a Kickstarter-funded nonprofit. Money is money, however a retailer can get it.).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Amazon Go, Amazon’s new grocery store format in Seattle, opened last week. The Food Marketing Institute reported that about 50 percent of that spend is on perishables — stuff like meat (13 percent of that 50 percent), produce (11 percent of that 50 percent) and dairy (8 percent of that 50 percent).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

There wasn’t very much like it in the market at the time — both in terms of both design and function — and there was little in the way of guarantees that the product would mature into a hit. Two and a half years ago, we had nothing,” he told the network last week, following a tour of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

and Canada (its most lucrative markets, revenue-wise) isn’t growing and it’s suffered through a reputational beating over the last year. And for good reason, Karen Webster noted in a recent commentary – a minority of users managed to turn Facebook into a home and hub for some of the vilest content on the internet.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Coda Automotive was an early player in the electric vehicle market, an early failure, and a great example of why being early is not always an advantage — even if the future your company envisions is probably the right one. Another, larger problem was that the market for electric cars did not take off the way that Coda expected.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 29, 2015

For some community banks, video tellers, sometimes called interactive teller machines or ITMs, can work well for select markets or under certain conditions, experts say. We implemented the ITMs because we wanted to reach our rural markets with a full-time banking experience,” he says. “A

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CB Insights

JANUARY 24, 2018

The Seattle-based giant also opened its cashier-less Amazon Go store to the public in January 2018, after reported delays. In 1994, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in Seattle as an online retailer of books; in 1998, Jack Ma founded Alibaba in Hangzhou, China as an online platform to connect merchants and buyers. Notably, Amazon paid $13.7B

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

TD has been a player that maintained its acquired market share so we are hoping this one doesn’t get messed up like other Canadian banks that have struggled in the Southwest. There’s nothing more Gonzo than a CEO who simply bleeds the soul of front-line relationship managers, and Brager could write a bestselling book on this topic.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 18, 2019

There was even an Alexa-enabled laptop (pictured right) with a sticker mimicking the famous “Intel Inside” marketing. Compared to other years, when the Seattle giant’s presence was minimal, Amazon seemed to be asserting itself as the major hardware and software player it is. Smart Cities will measure and manage.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2016

With 7 percent of apparel sales already, Amazon – analysts say – is well on its way to a 20-percent share of the apparel market in less than four years. It took three CEOs and three years to get a product in market, and most of the big guys, including its anchor merchant, Walmart, were all going their own mobile payments ways.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2016

Theranos managed to build a company with a valuation of $9 billion firm on the back of a revolutionary new diagnostic test that suffered from the small defect of not working at all. The big brands, with eCommerce and digital channels of their own to build, have been slow to move for fear of letting the fox into the proverbial hen house.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In fact, despite Generation Y’s enthusiasm for exercise, mid-market fitness clubs have actually seen their memberships stagnate over the years. The gyms offer a wide variety of amenities, often including classes, at a fraction of the cost of a traditional mid-market gym membership. Source: Burst/Pexels.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

In a press release , Globe Fintech, known as Mynt, said Bow Wave Capital Management and other existing investors all participated in the fundraise. The mobile wallet provides users with “digital financial tools and services” that even include opening deposit accounts, investing in money market funds and buying insurance products.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

Telehealth technology is estimated to be a $43B market, according to CB Insights’ Industry Analyst Consensus. Now, with experts stressing the importance of rapid testing and tracking in managing the Covid-19 crisis, wearables and other health monitoring tech that enable diagnostics are taking center stage.

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CB Insights

APRIL 3, 2018

We looked at the different stages in bringing a product to market, from manufacturing to delivery, and how companies are using AI-enabled automation — including facial recognition, demand forecasting, and computer vision-based robots — to enhance each of these stages. Manufacturing: Bringing a product to market. online solutions.

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