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QSRs Battle For US Sales With Online Delivery And Payments

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Taco Bell is living más as it pulls ahead of Burger King as the fourth-largest quick-service restaurant (QSR) brand with new delivery options and, yes, nacho fries. The company has recently seen positive momentum and improved operating performance, and delivery is projected to accelerate future growth. But McDonald ’s Corp.

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Boxed And Costco Have Their Roots In A 1970s New Jersey A&P Store

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In another commercial , a spokesperson proclaimed, “It’s a brand-new concept: You shop at a modern supermarket with wild warehouse prices,” as the slogan “wild warehouse prices” flashed across the screen. And, like Costco, it has a limited selection, which makes for a more efficient operation. “By It becomes a competitive advantage.”.

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Unattended Retail Can Boost Visits To Stores

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While it’s not surprising that tech-savvy millennials may want to use kiosks, research shows customers of various age groups are seeking to use technology such as self-service kiosks in both QSR and fast-casual establishments. — $34.1 25 percent is the projected percentage of customer service operations that will use chatbots by 2020.

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12 Industries That Will Thrive Thanks To Millennials

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Popular media coverage of millennials often fixates on the industries the generation is allegedly killing and their supposed fiscal irresponsibility. Some industries benefiting from millennials’ increased spending power, such as travel, reflect well-worn Gen Y tropes like the general preference for “experiences” over things.

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11 New Restaurant Concepts Reimagining Fast Food & Casual Dining

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Instead, new millennial-inspired and tech-infused dining trends have been emerging across the US and internationally. Many of yesterday’s casual dining brands are dying, but not because millennials “don’t eat out.” This approach to marketing is enabling a new wave of specialized fast-casual brands to take root.

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Fashion Forward: How Tech Is Targeting Waste & Pollution In The $2.4T Fashion Industry

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Even luxury brands are contributing to this problem. In this report, we examine how fashion brands are leveraging technology to make clothing production and consumption more sustainable, from the use of plant-based textiles and bacteria-based dyes to leveraging a blockchain-based supply chain to increase transparency.

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24 Industries & Technologies That Will Shape The Post-Virus World

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Meanwhile, brands that were already virtual-first have seen dramatic increases in adoption during the crisis. Sales of the interactive at-home fitness brand Mirror doubled in the weeks following Covid-19’s arrival in the US. VR has also helped businesses across industries keep operations running.

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