Taco Bell is growing its digital capabilities through an expansion of its Rewards program, letting fans earn points on purchases made in-restaurant, through drive-thrus and on digital kiosks — all in the name of unlocking rewards, according to an announcement. Moreover, Rewards members will get...
The future, it’s been said, belongs to the young. Tweak that maxim a bit. As Pam Habner, head of U.S. branded cards and unsecured lending at Citi, told Karen Webster in a recent interview, the future of card rewards — via cash back, automated and flexible in nature...
Small businesses worldwide were hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, and Australia was no exception. Derailed by physical location closures and the trepidations of consumers, shopkeepers and entrepreneurs nationwide were forced nearly overnight to rewrite and recreate their business models to meet the rarified needs of...
All over the world, consumers are warming up to the idea of shopping locally. PYMNTS research reveals that 46 percent of all U.K. consumers — 24 million people — say now is the time to shop with the roughly six million small- to medium-sized businesses...
In Making Loyalty Work for Small Businesses: United Kingdom Edition, a PYMNTS and Pollinate collaboration, researchers surveyed a census-balanced panel of 1,115 U.K. consumers as part of a larger study of over 4,500 consumers in Australia, Brazil, the U.K. and the U.S., analyzing their appetite...
According to the July edition of Delivering on Restaurant Rewards, a PYMNTS and Paytronix collaboration, recent research “shows that there are 81 million consumers in the U.S. who are currently part of at least one restaurant’s loyalty program and 78 million who have seen their...
We don’t typically gauge restaurant loyalty programs by their ability to stretch budgets or “put food on the table” in a traditional sense, but Americans struggling in the pandemic’s aftermath are grasping the capacity of restaurant loyalty rewards to help make ends meet. PYMNTS’ July...
McDonald’s may seem like a latecomer to the digital loyalty game, but it may be a little more complicated than that. The company announced in late June that it will be rolling out its MyMcDonald’s Rewards loyalty program nationwide on Thursday (July 8). Many of...
Papa John’s just hit the McDonald’s milestone. The pizza restaurant announced Tuesday (July 6) that its loyalty rewards program had reached 20 million members. For context, 20 million is the number of active users that McDonald’s, the world’s largest quick-service restaurant (QSR) chain, has for...