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McDonald’s Will Open 200 Restaurants In Nordic Region

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McDonald’s will open 200 restaurants in the Nordic region over the next 10 years, as well as begin home deliveries this year in an attempt to take on rivals, such as Taco Bell and Yum! McDonald’s currently serves 150 million customers each year in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland from its estimated 430 restaurants in the region.

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The PYMNTS 2018 Summer Top 10 List

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Since we would hate for anyone to go into the end of 2018 behind the eight ball, we decided to pay tribute to both a great bit and a great deal of news with our own top 10 list of the biggest news of summer 2018. It is not an exaggeration to say that 2018 has been the summer of movie subscription service MoviePass ’ discontent.

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Starbucks Hits 16.3M Mobile Users, Eyes Expanded Delivery

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Investors were eager to see if the brand’s efforts to streamline its special offerings, and efforts for holiday 2018, had brewed up a merrier picture. Overall, sales were up 3 percent, and transactions were up 1 percent in the Asia-Pacific region as a whole. By the numbers, Starbucks delivered. Earnings came in at $.68

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Grubhub Acquires LevelUp

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DeWitt stated on the call that LevelUp, a seven-year-old firm based in Boston, serves 200 regional and national brands, with a point-of-sale (POS) approach that seeks to replicate each brand’s experience online. The CFO said it is “not a demand-generating” tool like Grubhub but is focused instead on POS integration.

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CIT Hires Consultant to Help Speed Up Turnaround

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The planned sale of its aircraft leasing unit is expected to leave CIT awash in excess capital, making it difficult for it to achieve a 10% return on average tangible common equity by 2018.

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‘Google Checking,’ T-Mobile Data Breach Top This Week’s News

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The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) is among the nonprofits working to feed local communities this holiday season is the which provides food services to 190 towns as well as cities in the eastern Massachusetts region. consumers who purchased concert tickets in 2018, approximately 11 million fell victim to some fraud.

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The Great Grocery Race Shifts Into High Gear

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And — according to Jet — the new app will also be better customized regionally for shoppers, making use of local imagery and messages on the homepage and throughout the site. Jet will also factor in locality when deciding which products are featured in its assortment for that region. Boston, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.

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