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McDonald’s Banks On Bakery To Beef Up Breakfast Sales

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“We’re continuing our breakfast innovation by adding tasty new sweet options with our new McCafé Bakery lineup. Breakfast burritos topped the morning menu at McDonald’s in 1991, and McGriddles followed in 2003. Further, the company’s popular premium roast coffee is now 100 percent sustainably sourced.

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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

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The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below). Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago. I will update with milestones from 2014 to today and publish next month. I’m taking suggestions here (so far: crypto, BNPL, earned-wage access, chatbots, deposit networks).

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Krispy Kreme Close To Acquiring Insomnia Cookies

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At the time, Peter Harf, a JAB senior partner, noted that the deal “is yet another example of our commitment to investing in extraordinary brands with significant growth prospects.”. Founded in 2003 by a University of Pennsylvania student, Insomnia Cookies’ stores stay open and deliver until 3:00 a.m.

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When Corporate Innovation Goes Bad — The 116 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time

CB Insights

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. Understanding failure is crucial since so many accounts of innovation focus on the successes and so are affected by survivorship bias.

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Merchants Gone Wild: The Surcharge Edition

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The specific issue that I’m referring to is merchant surcharging – a fancy term to describe the fee charged by merchants when consumers use network-branded card products to pay for their purchases. Merchants, especially in an increasingly tough retail environment, just want the sale. Innovation by Any Other Name. is nothing new.

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Surviving The Retail Apocalypse: The Technologies And Trends That Can Help Brick-And-Mortar Thrive Again

CB Insights

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. However, this isn’t the whole story.

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The Coming Clash Of The Commerce Titans

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True or false: Thanks to mobile devices and apps, American consumers spend more time today shopping than they did in 2003. In 2003, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that American consumers spent roughly 48 minutes a day shopping offline and online. Fifty percent of retail spend happened there.

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