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AUGUST 7, 2018

He said the company’s pilot program, which initially sold meal kits in 17 Costco stores and has expanded to 80 locations within three months, has “further validated to us the power of Costco’s retail platform.” Retailers have realized that consumers still like to come into stores,” Kilcourse said.

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APRIL 27, 2018

Not to be outdone, famed chef Daniel Boulud is opening his own tech-centric QSR with four Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates. While the Restaurant Readiness Index revealed that QSR industry adoption of innovation has been spotty, kiosks were the one area where the best-performing and worst-performing QSRs were making advances.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

Massachusetts Suing Robinhood, Alleging Failure To Protect Investors. Massachusetts regulators filed a complaint against Robinhood on Wednesday (Dec. Small Business Solutions and Karen Webster how payments innovation will play a critical role in their digital-first 2021. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

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MARCH 7, 2019

The new law will take effect in July and would require most retail outlets to accept physical currency. Massachusetts already requires businesses to accept cash. . New Jersey recently passed a similar law and New York City is on the path to doing so as well. The law doesn’t apply to garages or lots, Costco, rental-cars or hotels.

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Anne Tangen, a bank IT expert-turned-CEO at BankFive in Fall River, Massachusetts, talks about BankFive's efforts to reduce friction in the account opening process, as well as her work to smooth the path for talented women in the community bank C-suite.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

has completed its Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection process and emerged from one of the highest-profile retail collapses since COVID-19 began, the Dallas-based company disclosed. We emerge from Chapter 11 as a stronger, more innovative retailer, brand partner and employer.”. Neiman Marcus Holding Company Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

A store with snacks, drinks, and souvenirs at Polar Park in Worcester, Massachusetts will enable customers to shop without scanning or stopping to check out, according to Standard Cognition co-founder and COO Michael Suswal. Standard Cognition has revealed that it will enable cashierless transactions at a minor league baseball stadium.

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JUNE 19, 2020

“By bringing together our leading consumer brand, data science expertise and industry-leading products with SBTech’s proven technology platform, we will accelerate our innovation, growth and scale,” he said. “I For the first three months of 2020, DraftKings, which has 800 employees in Massachusetts, posted a net loss of $68.7

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MAY 27, 2016

Omnicommerce usually refers to where and how retailers sell their products, not necessarily who they choose to sell them with. From office supplies and communal workspaces to new ways to pay for concert tickets, more barriers to siloed retail activity are falling every day to the onslaught of retail partnerships.

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MARCH 19, 2019

New Jersey is the second state to outlaw cashless stores after Massachusetts, which signed a similar bill into law back in 1978. Many people don’t have access to consumer credit and any effort by retail establishments to ban the use of cash is discriminatory towards those people,” New Jersey Assemblyman Paul Moriarty said.

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

As CarrieAnne Cormier, senior vice president of retail operations and strategy at Massachusetts-based Avidia Bank, recently told PYMNTS , “You hear a lot about the new normal … but I really see it as banking at the speed of life. Interactive Tellers (ITMs) accommodate this and more. Banking At The Speed Of Life’.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The fee-free card is Goldman Sachs’ latest inroad into the retail consumer business after establishing its online Marcus brand in 2016, which makes unsecured personal loans. According to reports last week, Amazon will soon be heading to Boston to construct a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

Great news for innovative retailers. Labor laws were the impetus for French grocery conglomerates Casino Guichard Perrachon and Carrefour to begin experimenting with automated retail. The move helps both retailers circumvent laws that prevent grocers in France from making employees work late-night hours or on Sunday afternoons.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Amazon is constantly testing and launching new offerings to innovate on behalf of customers,” an Amazon spokesperson said. “At Ron Wyden of Oregon, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Chris Coons of Delaware and Gary Peters of Michigan sent a letter Wednesday (Nov.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Amazon is constantly testing and launching new offerings to innovate on behalf of customers,” an Amazon spokesperson said. “At Ron Wyden of Oregon, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Chris Coons of Delaware and Gary Peters of Michigan sent a letter Wednesday (Nov.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

Glamsquad is already available in four CVS BeautyIRL locations in Florida, Connecticut and Massachusetts, and additional locations are scheduled for 2019. Some of the services that will be available include blowouts, dry styling, braids, a 30-minute makeup refresher, skin services and manicures. and revenues of $46.7 billion respectively.

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MAY 5, 2019

In other news, Singapore’s Chief FinTech Officer of the Monetary Authority said that while blockchain has potential for cross-border payments, the agency “does not see much” in retail bank digital currencies. The design phase is underway, with testing to begin in Q2/Q3 2019.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

For retailers, it’s the Hunger Games. This year’s newest innovation? The move comes as Amazon is making changes in other areas of its sprawling retail business. For consumers, the holiday shopping season is the most wonderful time of year. Seasonal sales, twinkling lights and Santas for photo-ops everywhere you turn.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

cities this year, with big brands testing retail concepts “in real life” with temporary spaces. And, in some cases, brick-and-mortar retailers brought these concepts to their sales floors with their own takes on pop-up shops. Pop-up shops welcomed consumers in malls and major U.S.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

With the help of connected car technology, the morning and evening commutes are no longer just a time for consumers to drive to and from work: These periods of the day between home and work life are also becoming a time where retailers can engage shoppers in contextual commerce experiences. More than three in 10 commuters — or 33.4

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APRIL 25, 2016

and Massachusetts (Yucesoy v. Uber also agreed to help establish “a driver’s association” in California and Massachusetts, with funding coming from the company to sustain the group’s activities. Late Thursday (April 21), an answer came down that sits somewhere in between those two outcomes.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Waltham, Massachusetts-based eCommerce solutions company Yottaa has made a big splash in the commerce space in the past few years. Its SaaS platform for accelerating eCommerce has been picked up by major retailers, including Puma, eBags, King Arthur Flour, Jo-Ann Fabric and Moosejaw, to name a few. Think back a few years ago.

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JUNE 19, 2018

The warehouse club retailer also said that it plans for each share to be issued in a range between $15 to $17, leading to a market cap topping $2.15 It was stated that the deal could value the Westborough, Massachusetts-based, membership-only warehouse chain somewhere between $2 billion and $3 billion. million shares.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

Ongoing innovation in banking technology is clearly beginning to pay off, and we’ve been privileged to learn an immense amount from all of the financial institutions that took the time to tell us about their how they’ve been using technology and innovation to serve customers better, become more efficient, and mitigate risk.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

” A company called Soft Robotics in Bedford, Massachusetts, makes systems that let robots conduct extremely delicate food-handling tasks. In the Netherlands, the Royal Palace restaurant in Renesse is using red-and-white robots that scoot around the dining room delivering food, the Associated Press reports. ”

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MARCH 11, 2019

While it is easy to imagine the path of progress is ever forward, often in the innovation game it is a bit more like the Paula Abdul hit song from the late ’80s — two steps forward, one step back. Massachusetts already has a law requiring cash acceptance. So where were those moves, and where did everyone end up? Cashless Coup.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

Instead of offering consumers the cheapest possible version of what was already out there, Shark and Ninja products would focus on innovation — and attracting consumers with new and improved versions of products designed to assist them in their everyday life. In the U.S. We have a huge amount of respect for Dyson.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

The credit card company and retail wholesaler announced on Tuesday (Aug. 2) that they are running a contest to reward shoppers who pay with Mastercard credit, debit or prepaid cards at BJ’s locations in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts. The prize?

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

FinTechs and merchants have formed a posse of sorts, with validation solutions provider Service Objects recommending using application programming interfaces (APIs) to verify emails, while retailers such as Costco, Morrisons and Tesco tell customers not to fall for social media notifications asking for personally identifiable information.

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MAY 22, 2020

But as Massachusetts slowly lifts its ban on most retail operations, Le Garrec said there are still more unknowns than knowns for restaurateurs like himself. The state’s attempt to offer some guidance early this week had been less helpful than many Main Street businesses had hoped.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Most retailers can reduce their upcoming shipments and sell excess inventory before restocking, but restaurants do not have this luxury due to food spoilage. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Clover Food Labs, which has 12 locations and 300 employees, is another small chain utilizing cloud technology.

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JUNE 18, 2019

to fully embrace real-time payments for both B2B and B2C activity,” Bottomline Technologies Vice President of Product Management and Strategic Solutions Jessica Cheney told PYMNTS in a recent interview , pointing to the previous rollout of Same-Day ACH and an acceleration of FinTech innovation in the country.

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AUGUST 15, 2017

Lai on paper may not look like someone who would end up being part of the retail renovation narrative, if for no other reason than she seems like an odd fit working in retail at all, since her training is as an architect. What if they were just fairly comfortable out of the box?

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OCTOBER 27, 2018

Retailers are stocking up to supply children, pets and adults with their favorite decorations, candy and costumes for the season.”. Massachusetts saw a bigger peak run, with 12,900 tickets sold per minute. When it comes to categories, consumers are intending to spend $3.2 billion on costumes , $2.7 billion on decorations, $2.6

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JUNE 10, 2016

The office will feature a variety of positions interacting, including software developers and managers whose focus will be on creating, developing and innovating new tech-based solutions for Amazon’s varied and complex operational challenges.

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JANUARY 10, 2018

Mastercard’s “Grow Your Biz” contest for SMBs in Boston, Massachusetts, concluded in December. The purpose was to identify SMB owners who were planning to use innovative tactics to grow, then provide financial support as well as expert guidance to drive that growth. “We

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Cohen owns a national distribution network and deals with some of the nation’s biggest retailers. His aim is to change the way that the thousands of cases of retail goods are stored, handled and hauled. But it’s not just the retailers trying to cut costs who are embracing technology.

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