PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

To launch the program, three Black-owned restaurants have been selected to receive $25,000 each: Back in the Day Bakery in Savannah, Georgia, Post Office Pies in Birmingham, Alabama and Rodney Scott’s BBQ , which has locations in both Birmingham and Charleston, South Carolina. Lowe’s Cos.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2016

By and large, things are not great for retail (particularly of the brick-and-mortar variety). Indeed, it’s popular — dare we say, trendy, even — to postulate that retail as we know it is doomed. And if doing so can increase profits — as has been the case with Sheetz — that could stand as a pretty solid example for other retailers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

retail and culture, but which these days are often clinging to life thanks to the rise of eCommerce and other factors (including the rise of at-home retail activities and connected commerce, both a recent and ongoing focus of PYMNTS research ). The gaming part of the mall will reside alongside some 200 retail stores there.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It might not offer the comforts of a video conference with your doctor from your home, but retail giant Walmart is also looking to get in on the medical makeover currently underway.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2016

One of those places is just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, though what’s stored inside won’t be hard to spot. Amazon announced on Wednesday (June 22) that it had finalized plans to open a new fulfillment center in Braselton, Georgia.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

This is not a typical community process, but the conversations will continue,” Mayor Martin J. Walsh said in a press conference, referring to the lack of community input over the elimination of parking spaces. “We We have to move quickly to help our restaurants in our business districts in the city to survive, be safe and recover.” .

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Boston Rhode Island Massachusetts Georgia 131

Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The digital world has opened vastly broader avenues for community banks to attract new customers—especially if they partner with fintechs in their endeavors. Fintechs know how to reach and work with the community. Coconut Software in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, is one fintech solving this problem for community banks.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

“Within the collector community, authentication of the product is an incredibly pervasive and important issue.”. Works by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jasper Johns, Marsden Hartley and Charles Sheeler will be featured, among others. That fact is borne out by the numbers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2018

But only one can be selected, and the top 20 from which the elect will be chosen include: Atlanta, Georgia. Through this process, we learned about many new communities across North America that we will consider as locations for future infrastructure investment and job creation.”. Politicians across the U.S. Austin, Texas.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

DealNews predicts Amazon will offer discounts of up to 50 percent on its own clothing brands during the Big Style Sale and will push other brands and retailers to do the same. The company opened two other Georgia health centers in 2019, and the company said the sites have thus far received high praise from the public.

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Security Georgia Branding Course 141

Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Georgia bank propels major growth through niche SBA lending. When Richard Bradshaw became president of specialized lending three years ago at United Community Bank in Blairsville, Ga., By earlier this year, United Community’s SBA staff had totaled 50 people, and the department is still growing. By Howard Schneider.

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Community Bank Lending Community Georgia 70

PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

In its oversubscribed series A funding round, OnPay , a Georgia-based payroll software startup, secured $6 million, the company said this week. In a rarity for B2B FinTech funding, B2B payments startup Flutterwave announced a $35 million fundraise, turning the spotlight to Nigeria’s FinTech community. Flutterwave. Berkshire Grey.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

Companies like American Tile & Stone and Premier Packaging have already begun using Uber Freight to improve their shipping operations, and we’re excited to now roll out the platform widely to our freight community,” the company wrote in the blog post.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Walmart probably managed to make the biggest splash in the retail segment this week with the announcement that it will no longer be selling certain types of ammunition to customers, and that it will discourage the open carrying of weapons in its stores. Which leads us to … Walmart . Big Play of the Week: A Farewell To Arms .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

Both of the nation’s mega-retail players have spent the week strategizing how to strike a balance between three goals — protecting their thousands of employees, serving their massive customer bases and keeping supply chains operating at as close to normal as imaginable given the highly abnormal circumstances. to enhance testing efforts.

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North Carolina Retail Nevada Tennessee 130

BankInovation

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Bowling, a 22-year veteran of community banking who began his career as a teller, was ready for a change. The transformation of Barwick Bank began in 2019 with a note left in Chad Bowling’s unlocked Range Rover. The de novo Reunion Bank of Florida he had helped found and grow with his business partner and […].

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Florida Community Bank Community Phoenix 98

Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 11, 2014

So, if those involved in banking don''t have the time or inclination to do it, how about the engineer, retail store manager, or forklift operator? Could this need for personal financial management prove to be a viable niche for community financial institutions? Can we brand ourselves as the trusted advisor in our communities?

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Boston DC Community Community Bank 89

PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

So do the college communities of University of California, Santa Barbara and University of Cincinnati. Joining Texas Tech this year will be The Georgia Institute of Technology and California State University, Long Beach, as well as in the college communities of University of Akron and University of Connecticut.

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Minneapolis Minnesota Texas Long Beach 100

William Mills

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Approximately 1,300 attendees (including bankers, credit union executives, industry analysts and media representatives American Banker , Banking Exchange and BIG Media ) joined 30 sponsor companies to immerse themselves in all things retail banking at BAI Beacon 2017, held at the Georgia World Congress Center October 4-5.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2016

But Facebook got the jump on the news cycle this week with the big news that it was opening up Facebook Canvas for retailers and other marketers on the site, as opposed to just advertis e rs. So, providing retailers with a new storefront in an ecosystem of 1.5 Last week , Walmart Pay rolled out in Alabama and Georgia.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

If you are a community bank or credit union, then there’s a lot to like in the launch of Business Banking Mobile from NCR. The solution features the user experience of Digital Insight’s Mobile Banking Apps , ensuring a familiar, retail feel, and includes TouchID and EyePrint ID biometric authentication options.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2016

million businesses that line the main streets and side streets of the local communities across the U.S. Small business owners don’t expect to be the star of the show, but wherever we went — and we went to Vermont , New Hampshire , Massachusetts , Virginia , South Carolina and Georgia — we heard the same two things over and over again.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 31, 2015

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Much of Cosgray’s insight into the personal finance challenges of the paycheck-to-paycheck community comes from his experience with in-house financing at a consumer goods retailer. Founded in December 2013. How it Works. The Future.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2017

That seems to have been the succession plan of former CEO Ian McLeod, who recently resigned to take a job with pan-Asian retailer Dairy Farm International Holdings Limited. “We’re looking at the demographics around our stores and deciding which format works best in those communities,” Hucker told the Tampa Bay Times.

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

In the past decade, restaurant and bar purchases have grown at twice the rate of general retail spending. The kombucha taproom: Cultured South (Georgia). Community initiatives: Loom (Massachusetts). Rental space per square foot is comparable or even less than general retail (~$100 — $300 vs. ~$250, respectively).

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

At the end of 2017, a handful of Chinese provinces and the country of Georgia were home to 75 percent of the world’s bitcoin mining, while only 3 percent was happening in the U.S. Frankly, whenever miners arrive, communities aren’t so willing to roll out a red carpet — because, as neighbors go, miners are kind of a fizzle. percent.

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Bitcoin cryptocurrency Taxes Community 104

PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2017

The entire state of Georgia. Down the road, she could provide information about the city budget and where taxes go, or connect people with resources to improve their community and help their neighbors. The platform, called Imaginuity Community Connect, was designed to boost community engagement via AI capabilities.

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Los Angeles Georgia Dallas Community 129

PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

The resurgence of the virus in California has taken its toll on the Latino community. Cases in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia surged by more than 20 percent in the past week, according to Johns Hopkins. .

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Retail/Consumer Goods. Retail/Consumer Goods. Coca-Cola innovates its food-and-beverage line from its Atlanta headquarters, but uses its satellite Development and Innovation Lab at Georgia Tech University to fast-track key technology initiatives and accelerate its “technological responses to business issues.” Technology.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Robinhood’s goal was not to build an app for day-traders or portfolio managers; it was to build an app for the first-time retail investor. This practice of serving underserved communities has become a foundation of Credit Karma’s business model: “There are a lot of families struggling to make ends meet,” Lin says. “To

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Payless shoes is offering a pop-up shop in Times Square already (with more pop-up locations planned for Whittier, California; Alpharetta, Georgia; Paramus, New Jersey; Limerick, Pennsylvania; Clarksburg, Maryland; Hagerstown, Maryland; Hickory, North Carolina; and El Paso, Texas). percent) of brands pick New York, with L.A.

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