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90% of Millennials Feel Pressure at the Grocery Store

90% of Millennials Feel Pressure at the Grocery Store
90% of Millennials Feel Pressure at the Grocery Store
April 16, 2026  |  Consumer Insights

Millennials are learning to manage a pileup of costs all at once, and PYMNTS Intelligence data suggests that balancing act is becoming harder even during...

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The New Checkout Is Where the Best Offer Wins
The New Checkout Is Where the Best Offer Wins
April 16, 2026  |  retail

A shopper walks into a grocery store with discounts sitting in three different places: their loyalty app, their credit card and a manufacturer rebate. The...

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Payments Alone No Longer Cut It for Small Businesses
Payments Alone No Longer Cut It for Small Businesses
April 16, 2026  |  SMBs

Synchrony is launching a three-part interview series aimed at a central challenge facing small businesses: how to grow sales without putting more pressure on margins...

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Apple Pushes Siri Programmers to Adopt AI Coding Tools
Apple Pushes Siri Programmers to Adopt AI Coding Tools
April 15, 2026  |  Apple

Apple plans to send “a significant chunk” of its Siri programmers to a weekslong bootcamp to learn to code using artificial intelligence, The Information reported...

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Amazon Sellers Protest Policy Changes With One-Day Ad Boycott
Amazon Sellers Protest Policy Changes With One-Day Ad Boycott
April 15, 2026  |  Amazon

Hundreds of large Amazon sellers are protesting the company’s recent policy changes by boycotting its advertising platform on Wednesday (April 15), CNBC reported. Get the...

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FanDuel and DraftKings Fund $41 Million Lobbying Effort by Super PAC
FanDuel and DraftKings Fund $41 Million Lobbying Effort by Super PAC
April 15, 2026  |  Politics

Sports gambling platforms have contributed $41 million to a new federal super political action committee (PAC) this year, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (April 15), citing filings...

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Live Nation Loses Antitrust Case Brought by 33 States
Live Nation Loses Antitrust Case Brought by 33 States
April 15, 2026  |  ANTITRUST

Live Nation will continue to fight an antitrust case brought by a coalition of states after a jury ruled against the company Wednesday (April 15)....

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Fed Beige Book Finds Tax Refund Relief Running Into Higher Gas Prices
Fed Beige Book Finds Tax Refund Relief Running Into Higher Gas Prices
April 15, 2026  |  Economy

The Federal Reserve’s latest Beige Book, released Wednesday (April 15), describes an economy that keeps growing even as businesses and households navigate mounting uncertainty and...

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Anthropic’s New Design Tool Rivals Adobe and Figma
Anthropic’s New Design Tool Rivals Adobe and Figma
April 15, 2026  |  artificial intelligence

Anthropic is planning to release its new model Claude Opus 4.7 alongside a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered design tool capable of generating websites, landing pages...

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