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National Restaurant Association Framework Aims To Close Gap Between Restaurants And Aggregators

PYMNTS

16), the National Restaurant Association offered up seven public policy tenets that – in collaboration with delivery aggregators – are being billed as a “framework” for the delivery industry. That roster includes Washington State, New Jersey, Chicago and New York City. With data sharing, to boot.

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Is Sales Tax An Anchor On Amazon?

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One of the more long-grumbled complaints in retail is that Amazon and other eCommerce players are able to exploit a loophole that allowed them to mostly avoid charging sales tax. Would collecting sales tax 100 percent of the time take a bit out of Amazon’s bottom line? Recent data suggests — probably not.

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Food Stamps Online: The $75B Grocery Game-Changer?

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Low-income consumers are far more likely to find it difficult to secure mainstream credit sources and are thus much more likely to make use of high-cost alternative credit sources when financial emergencies hit, often in the form of a payday, title, tax refund anticipation or installment loan. And that’s just accessing money itself.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2017 Edition

Jeff For Banks

The Bank, Old Second National Bank, lost a whopping $156 million in 2009 and 2010. Independent Bank Corporation (Nasdaq: IBCP) Independent Bank dates back to 1864 as the First National Bank of Iona. Actually, the Bank had a one-time after tax litigation settlement (from a 2002-04 event) of $6.2 How did they lose it?

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The Future Of Housing: From Home Building To City Planning, Tech Giants & Startups Are Reimagining Where & How We Live

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While super-urban centers and subterranean homes have not yet come to pass, c ities have gotten more crowded, as economic growth has drawn hundreds of thousands of new high-income residents. Housing supply is dire nationally, with the US reportedly staring down a housing shortage of 7.3M Home prices rose 6.2% in Q1’18.

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Malls, Restaurants Request Aid As Coronavirus Forces Closures

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The National Restaurant Association (NRA) is forecasting a drop in sales of $225 billion over the next three months due to the outbreak. In the most immediate term, we believe the federal government should guarantee or directly pay for business interruption coverage for retailers, restaurants and other tenants as well as landlords.”.