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OCTOBER 6, 2020

Paytronix Systems and Oracle are rolling out a new initiative that will enable restaurants and retailers that use Oracle’s cloud-based point of sales system to offer online ordering and contactless delivery. Newton, Massachusetts-based Paytronix on Tuesday (Oct.

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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. The question remains: As investors crowd the space, and as retail use cases (slowly) develop, will the rally have legs or run dry?

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AUGUST 13, 2020

The Massachusetts company is laying off more than 40 employees with a focus on people working in its retail banking operations.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Digitally native brands often test the retail waters with pop-up shops, and, after some offline success, they may expand their concepts with permanent locations. In preparation for the holiday season this year, the retailer has updated its website and also plans to have a larger array of electronics, toys and fashion products.

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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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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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MAY 1, 2020

But what about the entrepreneurs who are still hanging onto their dreams of starting a retail business? Quite the contrary,” says Bob Brennan, chairman of the National Expansion Council and one of the directors of a nonprofit organization called Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) based in Boston, Massachusetts. “I

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2018

On October 4, the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) issued its final four recreational marijuana licenses to businesses, meaning legal marijuana will soon be available for purchase. Massachusetts joins a handful of states, including Colorado, Washington and Maine, that have taken steps to legalize recreational marijuana.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2018

According to Chain Store Age , the legislation requiring all brick-and-mortar retailers to accept cash was unanimously approved by the N.J. The bill, which is set to go before the full state Senate, excludes retailers inside airports from the cash requirement, as well as sales made online and by telephone or mail.

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

“Almost overnight, many [banks] had to stand up systems and set up processes that would allow them to service small business PPP loans, their digital solutions were pushed to the brink and they had to learn how to operate almost 100 percent remote,” Douglas Brown, senior vice president and general manager NCR Corporation, told PYMNTS.

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JUNE 10, 2020

What The Restaurant Group wants to do is lower its rent in 85 locations to keep them operating. There is one shining light in the company’s operations: the pan-Asian brand Wagamama, which has performed well since the Restaurant Group bought it in 2018. At the time of Massachusetts Gov.

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JUNE 29, 2018

Shares of the wholesale club retailer jumped more than 20 percent on Thursday (June 28), reaching north of $21, Financial Times reported. million shares for $17, which was the top of the $15 to $17 range the retailer had provided in its regulatory filings. Retail IPOs, in general, have been rare amidst industry struggles.

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MAY 17, 2018

The deal could value the Westborough, Massachusetts-based, membership-only warehouse chain somewhere between $2 billion and $3 billion. Retail IPOs, in general, have been rare amidst industry struggles. It collected membership fees from 5 million members at a renewal rate of 86 percent last year.

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PYMNTS

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. From an operational and risk perspective, we’ve handled the inflows smoothly, and without comprising our credit underwriting standards.”. India, the U.K.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

You may have read a previous post I published about moving to Texas from Massachusetts. If you’re a retail business with a lot of promotions and sales, you need to be prepared to deal with the influx in site traffic. What you may not have heard is how unprepared the state was for this event. Commerce Site Bandwidth.

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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. I, as of today, still don’t know what to do when we are ready to reopen — how we can operate safely and what needs to be changed in the restaurant,” Le Garrec said.

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

Build-A-Bear Workshop Chief Operations Officer Chris Hurt said in the announcement, “Build-A-Bear is working with some of the best family-focused venues in the country this holiday season and beyond to bring our unforgettable Make-Your-Own experience to even more places people go for fun and entertainment.

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MARCH 1, 2019

That behavior can sometimes lead to challenges for the retailers and services that want to engineer customer loyalty and drive sales. Retailers must also make sure they’re properly verifying the payment and personal information of these new customers, without adding friction to the buying experience.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

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. Personal data can be exploited by foreign intelligence services to amplify the impact of espionage and influence operations,” the letter said.

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MAY 5, 2019

The New York State Attorney General ( NYAG ) Letitia James wants to see documents regarding an alleged deal made between cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and stablecoin operator Tether that “misled their clients and investors.”.

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JUNE 15, 2020

“In mere weeks, we were able to create an application that made it simple for business owners to complete the PPP application, knowing many Square sellers handle all elements of their business, including financial operations, themselves.”. For retail, the average loan was $11,700, and total loans were $86 million.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Wells Fargo: The beleaguered bank does not have many champions, and perhaps least among its fans is Massachusetts Sen. And physical retail continued to show across the board weakness – net sales and brick and mortar stores was down 5.0 percent less according to the National Retail Federation. Elizabeth Warren.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

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. Personal data can be exploited by foreign intelligence services to amplify the impact of espionage and influence operations,” the letter said.

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MAY 14, 2020

As it works to address the pandemic with testing, CVS Health plans to open over 50 COVID-19 testing sites at designated CVS Pharmacy drive-thru locations throughout Connecticut, Florida, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. CVS Health President and CEO Larry J.

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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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Cloud-based inventory software offers restaurants several advantages in operational efficiency, including real-time tracking. Most retailers can reduce their upcoming shipments and sell excess inventory before restocking, but restaurants do not have this luxury due to food spoilage. Keeping QSRs on Top of Inventory.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2018

According to the National Retail Federation , as of last year parents entered August with about 45 percent of their back-to-school shopping done. Retailers have reason to want to tap into it because back-to-school shopping is an incredibly valuable run of commerce activity. That spend is big spend. In 2017, Americans spent $83.6

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JANUARY 7, 2021

They had to change the way they operate with new social distancing guidelines. From retail to consumer goods, online and mobile sales are up significantly. For example, some states, such as California and Massachusetts, plan to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by the year 2035. No one knew what to make of it.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2018

But Olivela Founder Stacey Boyd thought that perhaps it could be, and that retail philanthropy could have a future, if consumers could purchase things they really wanted – and could rest assured that what they were buying was not only enriching their own life, but the lives of others. Olivela is mostly an eCommerce operation today.

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PYMNTS

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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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. The food truck trend is taking off in the U.S., with the industry being valued at $856.7

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JULY 15, 2016

Santander is a national bank based in Wilmington, Delaware, and operates a network of close to 700 retail branch offices in Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

Building The (Retail) Use Cases. Meanwhile, Visa said that crypto-banking platform operator Ternio had joined the payments giant’s Fast Track program as a cryptocurrency-focused enablement partner. As reported, the company also said bought $50 million of bitcoin to hold on its balance sheet.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

SUNY Stony Brook is one of many schools who have teamed up with Amazon as the official book retailer for the school. Amazon operates 12 of them on college campuses across the U.S. Interestingly, 98 percent of the stores Barnes & Noble College operates will continue to carry course materials in various formats, for now.

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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. But, so what? The research is mixed on this.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2016

Brick-and-mortar retail will forever remember the day that Nintendo released Pokémon GO , a mobile game that has caused millions of millennials to suddenly discover outside again. However, some retailers prefer to play cards of the kind as close to the corporate chest as possible. Bankruptcies. Store Closures. ” Layoffs.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2020

president and owner of Energy-One , a heating, air conditioning and oil delivery service firm based in Rhode Island and serving that state and Massachusetts, told Karen Webster that survival is top of mind. I’m not a retailer – and I don’t get paid with a credit card at the end of the transaction.”. Thomas Vessella, Sr.,

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