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What’s The Future For NBA-Related Retail In China?

PYMNTS

Basketball is one of the most popular sports – if not the most popular sport – in China, but there’s a little less NBA available today for online shoppers in that country, according to reports. That’s because China eCommerce giant Alibaba apparently has removed any products related to the Houston Rockets from its search results.

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Top 63 Online Digital Banks for U.S. Consumers (Nov 2023)

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Consumers have been banking online for 28 years. The first, online bank Security First Network Bank (SFNB) launched in 1995, just a year after Amazon.com. 4,870 $557 25 Step 264 2018 SF 128,000 4.6 2,600 $93 29 Extra 104 2018 NYC 504,000 $0 30 Juno 102 2019 Singapore 421,000 3.9 4,870 $557 25 Step 264 2018 SF 128,000 4.6

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Five At Five: Walmart’s New Plan To Win Over NYC

PYMNTS

As of today, the international media titan has announced an investment in True Food Kitchen, a healthy eating startup based out of Houston. It was named the 2018 emerging restaurant by data firm Fishbowl. Macy’s Data Breach Includes Online Card Data.

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Uber Eats Gobbles Up Delivery-Only Restaurant Ando

PYMNTS

22, 2018, we will no longer be serving customers in New York — online or via our Union Square location — as we will be immediately starting to integrate with Uber Eats,” the company said in an announcement on its website. Now, Ando is shutting down its service as it begins to combine with UberEats. Starting Jan.

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Fridays Flips On Alcohol Delivery For Apps Users

PYMNTS

Fridays has said that since launching its online ordering offerings last summer, it has seen takeout sales jump 30 percent. If the alcohol delivery test is successful in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston areas, TGI Fridays said it intends to roll the program out nationwide in 2018.

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How QSRs Bring Mobile And Digital Payments To The Table

PYMNTS

Their efforts come as mobile ordering is more popular than ever: The volume of orders placed via mobile apps jumped a whopping 130 percent from 2016 to 2018, according to the PYMNTS Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker. Forty-five percent of customers say mobile options would encourage them to more frequently use online ordering services.

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Kroger Same-Store Sales Miss Views As It Overhauls Stores

PYMNTS

Pricing pressure continues to negatively impact comparable sales and margins, and we expect competition to remain intense in 2018,” Moody’s Vice President Mickey Chadha wrote in a note on Thursday, covered by Reuters. But it was feared that those disruptions could hurt traffic for good, as the customers left for other grocery stores.