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Walmart Tests Digitally Enhanced Stores

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Walmart has started trialing new digital services in its Mobile County, Alabama supercenter, including ModiFace , a new device that enables customers to digitally test makeup. “This is one of the first stores of its kind in the nation, and we’re thrilled it’s right here in Mobile,” said Wimsatt. .

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OpenTable Data Shows Consumers Are Starting To Eat Out Again

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The national decline in restaurant bookings is starting to ease up, according to new data from OpenTable as reported by CNBC. Others, like Arizona, Alabama and Nebraska, which have begun reopening in a controlled capacity, haven’t seen as steep a decline, OpenTable reported.

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Fiserv Enables SNAP Online EBT Payment Acceptance For Grocers

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In addition to New York, the program is now available for SNAP recipients in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, New York, Oregon and Washington. Eight additional states, Idaho, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas, West Virginia, Vermont and the District of Columbia, are slated to be added in June.

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Rebeca Romero Rainey: Create opportunities for new leaders

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Through that work, I started getting involved at the national level with ICBA, participating in committees, helping to form ICBA’s Minority Bank Council, joining the Executive Committee and, ultimately, becoming president and CEO of ICBA. Where I’ll be this month. Rebeca Romero Rainey President and CEO, ICBA.

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TGI Fridays, Fast Casual Food To Cater To Millennial Expectations

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It’s far from the first brand to attempt to express its pro-millennial stance through open floor plans and extended hours, but newly minted CEO Robert Palleschi told Nation’s Restaurant News that the Corpus Christi concept store will also be one where TGI Fridays gets to test out a whole new culture.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Facebook, Online Lending, Cash – And The Twilio Surge

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Last week , Walmart Pay rolled out in Alabama and Georgia. So, providing retailers with a new storefront in an ecosystem of 1.5 billion people a month who visit it. Slam dunk sizzle. Is payment enabling those storefronts next? . Walmart Pay. It’s been a busy seven-day stretch for Walmart Pay.

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The Real Hunger Games: A Battle Royale In The Grocery Aisles

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Once the 24 competitors (tributes) get to the games, they then battle to the death for a national audience that is required by law to watch the games. Albertsons/Greycroft grocery investment fund: This fund is expected to reach up to $50 million over time to invest in and develop grocery-related tech innovators. Secret Weapon.

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