food and beverage

Square Adds 5 New Integrated Solutions for Restaurants
Square Adds 5 New Integrated Solutions for Restaurants
May 14, 2024  |  ResTech

Square has formed several new integrations and partnerships with organizations serving food and beverage (F&B) companies. The provider of commerce solutions also said that 45%...

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CPG Subscriptions Eat Into Walmart’s Grocery Share
CPG Subscriptions Eat Into Walmart’s Grocery Share
May 13, 2024  |  Subscriptions

Increasingly, when consumers go to the grocery store, it is just to buy food, such that leading grocery retailers are losing share of center-aisle products to eCommerce...

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New Technology Puts Financial Improvements on the Menu for Restaurants
New Technology Puts Financial Improvements on the Menu for Restaurants
May 13, 2024  |  ResTech

Even as Main Street businesses outperform the rest of the economy, there’s a whole different set of rules for restaurants. For example, PYMNTS Intelligence found...

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McDonald’s Wants to Promote Value by Implementing $5 Meal Deal
McDonald’s Wants to Promote Value by Implementing $5 Meal Deal
May 10, 2024  |  Economy

McDonald’s is reportedly encouraging franchisees to vote to implement a $5 meal deal to bring back consumers who have left because of high prices. Franchisees — which...

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Aggregators Supercharge Food Industries’ Digital Transformation in Connected Economy
Aggregators Supercharge Food Industries’ Digital Transformation in Connected Economy
May 08, 2024  |  Connected Economy

The connected economy is making strides via a partnership between Uber Eats and Instacart. The two companies announced Tuesday (May 7) that in the coming weeks, Instacart customers will be...

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Budget-Strapped Consumers Are Tired of Being Asked to Tip Self-Checkout Kiosks
Budget-Strapped Consumers Are Tired of Being Asked to Tip Self-Checkout Kiosks
May 07, 2024  |  Consumer Insights

For financially constrained consumers, the pressure to tip is verging on the ridiculous, with many customers even asked to add gratuity at self-checkout. By the...

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Consumers View Embedded Lending as Option to Pay Everyday Essential Expenses
Consumers View Embedded Lending as Option to Pay Everyday Essential Expenses
May 07, 2024  |  Alternative Credit

Embedded lending may gain new consideration at the point of sale as cash-strapped consumers grapple with the pain of emergency expenses. And it may help...

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Five Ways Consumers Are Pumping the Brakes on Spending
Five Ways Consumers Are Pumping the Brakes on Spending
May 06, 2024  |  Consumer Insights

We may be witnessing the beginnings of a great pullback in consumer spending. At least in some areas. As paycheck-to-paycheck living remains a reality for most U.S. consumers,...

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Starbucks Ex-CEO Urges Leaders to Return to Stores
Starbucks Ex-CEO Urges Leaders to Return to Stores
May 06, 2024  |  ResTech

Starbucks’ former CEO said the chain’s leaders need to spend more time at its stores. Howard Schultz made the argument on LinkedIn Sunday (May 5), days after the company reported its...

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