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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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Facebook And Google Payments Efforts Top Week’s News

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The branding will reflect the financial institutions and not Google. Amazon To Build $40M Robotics Innovation Hub Near Boston. Behind Regions Bank’s AI-Powered Digital-First Push. The knives were out for Amazon this week thanks to a major sneaker brand. Deutsche Bank Admits Widespread Payment Failures To BoE.

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Grubhub Acquires LevelUp

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Amid the headline numbers, the company has noted that average order sizes were up 3 percent year over year, with a boost in mix across all brands served. That increase in revenue per order comes absent increased support costs for those orders. LevelUp processes about 100,000 orders a day, as noted on the call.

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Retail Pulse: Stop & Shop To Deploy Autonomous Vehicles; Chico’s FAS Plans To Close 250 Stores

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With the help of Robomart , a startup based in California, the grocery chain plans to bring produce, convenience items and meal kits to the customers’ doors through roving autonomous mobile stores in the Boston area. And Indochino , a digitally native made-to-measure menswear brand, has plans to grow its brick-and-mortar footprint this year.

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Starbucks Hits 16.3M Mobile Users, Eyes Expanded Delivery

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Overall, sales were up 3 percent, and transactions were up 1 percent in the Asia-Pacific region as a whole. Over the next several weeks, delivery services via Uber Eats are on deck to roll out in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C. The brand is also forecasting net income between $2.32 As of Tuesday (Jan.

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Data Dive, Go Big Edition: Apple, Amazon And CloudKitchens

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Early accounts seem to indicate that the just-launched Apple -branded credit card is finding its way into customers’ hands, and into heavy use. The fee-free card is Goldman Sachs’ latest inroad into the retail consumer business after establishing its online Marcus brand in 2016, which makes unsecured personal loans.

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Small Business Spotlight: Just Add Cooking

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Boston-based meal kit company Just Add Cooking aims to address both by sourcing its kits from farms and businesses in the New England region. Mayo said it can actually lose those brands customers because the business is not thinking about the food system as a whole. she said — though local food can still be difficult to get.

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