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Grocery Delivery Alabama Startup Shipt Takes On Instacart, AmazonFresh And Google

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number one grocery delivery brand. Until now, the Alabama startup had not made any move to topple the reigning grocery delivery champs out of major coastal cities like New York and Los Angeles, but now that can finally change. The Alabama startup eliminates grocery store trips for 20 million families in 47 metro areas.

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Bitcoin Daily: Users Can Buy Crypto With Credit On Bitcoin.com; Detained Ethereum Developer Released On $1M Bail

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“We are very excited to partner with Moonpay to offer our users a simple way to purchase cryptocurrencies with fiat money,” said Danish Chaudhry, chief operating officer of the Bitcoin.com Exchange. The Bitcoin.com Exchange was launched in September by Bitcoin.com following a re-branding. 26, Coindesk reported.

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Tide Launches Omnichannel, On-Demand Laundry Service

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Tide, the laundry brand owned by CPG Detergent, is introducing a service called Tide Cleaners, an on-demand dry cleaning and laundry service, at 1,000 locations in cities across the country, according to reports. The service works with drop boxes in offices, storefronts and high-rise buildings.

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Darden Cyberattack Puts 567K Cards At Risk

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In a press release , the restaurant chain operator said it was notified on August 16, 2018, by federal authorities that a legacy point-of-sale system for some of its Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen restaurants, a brand acquired by Darden last year, may have been compromised via a hack that involves restaurants in 23 states.

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Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: 150M Prime Members And Super Bowl Commercials Take The Field

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Amazon said it will look to expand the pilot beyond its first two states in 2020 — Alabama, Iowa, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey, and Oregon are all on the list for next expansions, according to a statement from the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service. The Allswell brand, however, seems safe.

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Saving Main Street: Cities Pick Up The Recovery Role

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In Birmingham, Alabama a public private partnership is creating a fund to support small businesses through low-interest loans. According to the JPMorgan Chase Institute , 47% of small businesses have less than two weeks of cash liquidity on hand, with restaurants and retail operating at the slimmest margins.

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Retail Pulse: Amazon Grows 4-Star Footprint; Forever 21 Files For Bankruptcy

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The filing will let it continue operating while it attempts to reorganize the business and return to profitability. Reis data indicates that the proportion of units sitting empty in some cities – with the inclusion of Indianapolis, Indiana and Birmingham, Alabama – is roughly four times higher than San Francisco. Bass & Co.

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