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One Food-Ordering App To Rule Them All

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It’s a hungry brand, gobbling up three different food delivery competitors in the last quarter alone: Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and most recently, Yelp’s Eat24. Grubhub absorbed 27 of OrderUp’s markets, including Baltimore itself, reported The Baltimore Business Journal. Foodler launched in Boston in 2005.

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Walmart Online Chief Departs

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Walmart confirmed on Thursday (April 7) that Brian Monahan, formerly the head of marketing for the retailer’s U.S. based online orders haven’t experienced any significant hiccups lately, though the retailer doesn’t release market-by-market breakdowns for its digital sales division.

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SMB Spotlight: A Little Love From Mastercard For More To Love Yoga

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Mastercard’s “Grow Your Biz” contest for SMBs in Boston, Massachusetts, concluded in December. More to Love became an official business in 2013 and only continued to grow from there. Mastercard and Bank of America know it’s not easy. That’s why these industry giants make a point of giving the little guys a leg up whenever possible.

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The End Of The Uber Experience?

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Before Uber in Boston, where I live, trying to get a taxi reliably was not only friction-filled, it was infuriating much of the time — something that a study conducted by the city of Boston in 2013 on the taxi industry bore out. That was on a day without bad weather, something Boston never has.

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Freeletics Apps-In To Customizable Fitness

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Which is why Munich-based Freeletics is trying to disrupt the fitness market with a customizable training app that requires no equipment. Founded in 2013, the firm has recently raised its first ever capital round of $45 million after almost five years of bootstrapping. According to some estimates, Americans on the whole waste $1.8

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Merchants Gone Wild: The Surcharge Edition

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Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. This newfound friction is the result of the City of Boston passing a bill that bans plastic bags and gives merchants the right to charge for ones made of paper. The ability for merchants to surcharge in the U.S. is nothing new.

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How Smaller Merchants Can Get Amazon-Style Logistics

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We were in those shoes in 2013 [and] 2014 when we were running our own eCommerce store,” ShipBob Co-Founder Divey Gulati told PYMNTS in an interview. “We The company is also eyeing same-day delivery, since the market is trending strongly toward same-day delivery. Two-day shipping just may not cut it in the future.

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