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Online Retailers, Here’s How To Avoid The Naughty List This Holiday Shopping Season

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Ryan Gibson, executive vice president of marketing strategy at Merkle, provided a series of tips and insights to retailers during a presentation at the eTail East summit in Boston on Thursday (Aug. The holiday shopping season also accounts for the largest percentage of online sales per year, which Gibson said rose to 8.7

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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. Foodler launched in Boston in 2005. Grubhub isn’t just about hungry people. The Eat24 deal closed last week on Oct.

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Building An Online Brand, In Real Life (#IRL)

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Since its founding in 2015, Qüero has turned to brick-and-mortar pop-up shops to do just that — and now, the company is hoping advanced technology can allow it to reach customers in new ways. And, rather than spending on overhead costs like stores and inventory, the company launched online, selling directly to consumers.

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Yum! Brands Brings Taco Bell And KFC To Grubhub

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In the future, Grubhub said it will provide delivery and online ordering for KFC and Taco Bell. In 2017, it gobbled up at least three different food delivery competitors: Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and, most recently, Yelp’s Eat24. The partnership with Yum!, That deal closed on Oct.

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Wirecard, Ingenico Buoyed By Worldpay Acquisition

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Transactions have grown in complexity and moved online, and the payment service industry increasingly has to deal with more complicated issues, like foreign currencies and different types of payments, all while moving at extremely fast speeds, according to a report from the Boston Herald. billion as of 2018.

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McDonald’s Testing Out Breakfast Catering In Florida

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McDonald’s increased sales in 2015 when it began selling breakfast items all day. However, the fast food giant is well behind other global competitors, such as Starbucks and Taco Bell , when it comes to ordering online and using digital tools to enhance the consumers’ experience. same-store sales were down 1.3 percent year on year.

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TJX Beats The Street

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Our 2015 performance once again demonstrates the power of our differentiated, flexible business model to succeed across many different geographic, economic and retail environments,” said Ernie Herrman, who took over as CEO on Jan. TJX posted a 6.4 percent jump in annual sales to $30.94 billion, while net income hit $2.27

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