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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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Top News In Payments: Bank Closings Hit Rural Areas; Kaspersky Highlights Rise Of Fake Notifications

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In today’s top payments news, more than half of the 3,114 counties in the United States lost bank branches from 2012 to 2017. Over half of the 3,114 counties in the United States lost bank branches from 2012 to 2017, with rural areas feeling the brunt of the closures per Federal Reserve research.

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Independence Day 2017 – By The Numbers

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In just a few days, Americans will both settle into the swing of summer and celebrate the 241st anniversary of the day the Founding Fathers declared the 13 colonies would be known as the United States of America, complete with an official Declaration of Independence. And so the United States was born. million people.

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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. as well as Canada, is looking to shutter 250 stores at a minimum in the United States.

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Tech Center: Charlotte On The Edge of Tech Greatness

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Before we jump into the post, here are a few quick facts about Charlotte and its tech scene: The city had a population of 827,097 in 2015, making it the seventeenth largest city in the United States. PYMNTS: How does the startup and tech scene in Charlotte differ from other cities in the United States?

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The Strange World Of Summer Retail

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The Good … The really good news about summer for retailers is that the temperature is their ally — well, at least for those retailers in the Northeast, assuming that it warms back up again in Boston (from 92 to 62 in 24 hours is a bit much …).

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How Masabi Makes Public Transit Ticketing Mobile

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with a platform called JustRide, which is a cloud-based collection of railways, and we launched in Boston with the city’s commuter rail service,” Donovan said. From there, we’ve moved to a number of different agencies, not just in the United States but around the globe.”. “In 2012, we moved beyond the U.K.

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