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Texas Halts Reopening Plans As COVID Cases Spike

PYMNTS

The hardest-hit counties in the state were Bexar, Dallas, Harris and Travis, which include the state’s most populated cities, including Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and Austin. In a survey of 2,064 consumers, PYMNTS found that around 36 percent of those surveyed fit that demographic.

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Retail Rents Falling From Manhattan To Los Angeles

PYMNTS

The worst results came from Lower Manhattan’s Broadway/Houston Street/Broome Street area, where average asking price per square foot tumbled 25 percent year on year. Second, the inability to physically frequent many retail establishments created a new set of online shoppers. That’s one out of every six.

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How QSRs Bring Mobile And Digital Payments To The Table

PYMNTS

These are just some of the ways that restaurants and third-party online platforms are making it easier for customers to order and pay for their favorite foods from their mobile devices in the digital era: Approximately half – or 49 percent – of large, quick-service restaurants (QSRs) allow in-app payments.

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5 New Year’s Resolutions For Any Sized Bank That You Must Get Right in 2023

South State Correspondent

The irony here is that more than half the banks we recently surveyed had some goal and metric around asset growth. Charlotte, Houston, Phoenix, New York, Austin, Denver, Orlando, Miami, and Nashville, many banks have not adjusted pricing or their credit appetite. Why “Growth” is Not on The List.

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Happy Returns: In-Person Returns For eTail

PYMNTS

In a twist on contemporary retail trends toward online channels, consumers still largely prefer to return in-store. The easiest way to describe what we do,” said David Sobie, CEO of Happy Returns , “is that we’re the buy online, return to store option for retailers that don’t have stores.”. and Houston. and Houston.

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Wegmans To Open In Brooklyn; Whole Foods Brings Eateries To 500th Store

PYMNTS

per one survey. In other news, VillageMD and Walgreens have teamed up to provide adult patients with primary healthcare services in the Houston, Texas area. Store rationalization needs to accelerate meaningfully as online penetration continues to rise,” the investment firm said in a note to clients.

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The Apple Pay Pivot?

PYMNTS

According to its survey of 507 vendors of merchant processing systems, Apple Pay is the most requested mobile digital payments service among retailers. All 10,000 ExxonMobil locations are supposed to be online by the end of the year. “I live in Houston, Texas, so it’s blazing hot in the summertime,” Russell said.

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