PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The quick-service restaurants (QSRs) that remain are facing a fiercely competitive market as they attempt to cater to consumers whose preferences have changed significantly since the pandemic’s onset. Taking such steps can enable QSRs to streamline their operations and lead to significant sales gains, he noted.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

Lime is striving to reach profitability in 2020 and is laying off about 14 percent of its workforce — roughly 100 people — and ceasing operations in 12 markets, according to reports on Thursday (Jan. These market closures have an effect not just on riders, but on our whole Lime community. billion valuation, making it a unicorn.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

That came after it shut down service in Seattle, Los Angels, and New York. In May Munchery said it was planning to focus on its largest market, which was San Francisco, in an effort to become profitable. That never happened, prompting its action earlier this week.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2019

Convenience store operator 7-Eleven is launching beer and cider delivery in select U.S. ” According to Fortune , the company will test the service in 18 markets: Austin, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas-Ft. .” Customers can place their beer orders via the 7Now app.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

A Seattle-based grocery startup named Swiftly has raised $15.6 The company also announced a brand new “operating system for brick and mortar stores.” Zion Market, a grocery company that has stores in Texas, California and Georgia, has already signed up for Swiftly services.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2017

3,500 more McDonald’s markets are going to be lovin’ it by the end of June as delivery service rolls out to even more restaurants. On Wednesday (May 31), McDelivery with UberEATS launched at locations in the New York Metro Area, Fresno, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Washington, D.C.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

operations. The news comes as Amazon is reportedly testing the idea of bringing its cashierless checkout technology to a larger store format by experimenting in a Seattle space that is formatted like a big store, according to a Wall Street Journal report earlier in December.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 14, 2019

Customers increasingly expect banks and other financial institutions to meet them where they are with full functionality, said panelists at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 in Seattle on Tuesday.

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APRIL 2, 2019

Ignite Ideas talks at the Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 conference in Seattle last month tackled issues of financial inclusion, designing products that enhance the customer experience, revamping payments, and rebuilding trust in banking.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

CIBO Express Gourmet Market, owned by hospitality group OTG, is located at Newark Liberty International Airport Terminal C, with more locations to follow in Newark and at LaGuardia Airport. OTG operates 350 restaurants and shops in 10 airports, including in Minneapolis, Washington D.C., Philadelphia and Toronto. “OTG

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2019

Bank Innovation Ignite, March 11-12 in Seattle, offers high-level discussions and networking around the future of what’s next in banking. IBM, one of the world’s largest technology companies, has agreed to sponsor Bank Innovation Ignite, which explores new ideas and technologies needed to push banking forward. The […].

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

The new funding will assist the startup in speeding up team building, supply chain optimizations and market growth. The company provides its offering in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Seattle. Bigbasket competes against Amazon and Flipkart in the Indian eCommerce market.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2020

The two food delivery giants are said to be discussing a deal that would result in the biggest restaurant food delivery operation nationwide. Uber Eats has over 100,000 restaurants on its platform, amounting to roughly 20 percent of the market. Grubhub, with about 300,000 eateries, has about 30 percent of the market.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Analysts at Jefferies have also identified additional licenses for operations in Washington, New Mexico and Indiana, which could signal bigger plans for Amazon as well. While customers in every state, except Hawaii, can receive drugs from PillPack, only a select few facilities can deliver the product.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

The eBikes “make a huge difference in my stores,” said Greg Keller, a Domino’s Pizza franchisee in Seattle. While delivery on a traditional bike solved many of our traffic and parking issues, the hills in Seattle were tough on even our best cyclists.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

Previously, only INV Fintech members were permitted to attend Demo Day on March 11 in Seattle. INV Fintech, the technology accelerator run in partnership with Fiserv, has opened its Demo Day event to financial institution executives attending Bank Innovation Ignite.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Finance , the layoffs are taking place in the company’s Seattle, Washington headquarters. Finance reported it could streamline deliveries for Whole Foods Market. Earlier this week, The Seattle Times reported that the eCommerce giant is laying off several hundred employees in what is seen as a rare move by the company.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

“Prime Now delivery continues to be a hit with our customers and we’re excited to introduce the service in five new cities plus more neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area,” Whole Foods Market’s executive vice president of operations, Christina Minardi, said in the announcement.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Amazon Go technology is being tested in a 10,400-square-foot space in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, a source told Bloomberg. The eCommerce giant launched the first Go convenience store in Seattle in 2017 and now has 21 U.S. The company already operates the Whole Foods Market chain. grocery industry.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Gray will discuss corporate banking and blockchains on March 1 in Seattle with JP Jolly of Citigroup and Deva Annamalai of Fiserv. Bank Innovation is pleased to welcome Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of technology strategy for blockchain and financial services, to our speaker faculty.

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MAY 15, 2020

San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C. It was trending that way, and off-premise has definitely been a growing segment of the market, but in the last few weeks, we’ve definitely seen an acceleration of that.”. If the two giant delivery services merge, it would create the biggest restaurant food delivery operation nationwide.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

Amazon has arguably pioneered the concept with its Amazon Go stores: The first location opened in Seattle this past January. And on the other side of the world, BingoBox operates over 200 of its self-service specialty stores in 29 Chinese provinces – and has nabbed $80 million in funding to boot. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Washington state became the latest example late last month, as reported by Eater Seattle , and joins New Jersey and cities such as New York City, as PYMNTS reported. DoorDash stands out as a strong example of latching onto the hot IPO market (reports have the company valued at as much as $30 billion, as CNBC reported ).

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

The company has properties in Seattle, Houston, Arlington and Tysons Corner, Virginia. WhyHotel said it will use the capital injection to extend into additional markets. The alternative accommodation market is a growing trend that was spearheaded by Airbnb , which has plans of going public soon.

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JULY 21, 2020

The Seattle-based coffee behemoth said in a Tuesday (July 21) news release that beginning this fall, customers who use the Starbucks app to order at company-operated stores will no longer have to pay for their purchases through the app in order to earn stars in the rewards program.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

This reorganization, while sound in concept, resulted in a material loss of focus on our current operations, leading to disappointing third-quarter results and a lackluster near-term outlook.” . Diller and Kern will address employees about the shakeup at a town hall meeting in Seattle on Dec. Shares of Expedia climbed as much as 8.6

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

Macy’s, Best Buy and Kohl’s have all recently stepped up same-day delivery options that were in testing mode to full-scale operations in some locations. However, of late, its expansion has been rapid, and it is now in 17 major metro markets. Baltimore markets.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Uber said that eBikes and scooters are used the most frequently in Paris, followed by Sacramento and Seattle. When we are thinking about bringing a product to a market, especially a product like scooters, we are working very closely with local officials,” he said. . Uber launched eBikes and scooters there in early 2019.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Reports from Seattle and California say the company is adding a new format and expanding beyond its Amazon Go and Whole Foods brands. Although Amazon hasn’t commented, the strategy seems to be aimed at getting Amazon aligned with a more mass market customer segment than its other retail brands. And the antagonist, per usual, is Amazon.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The private-equity backed operator of Houlihan’s restaurant chain has filed for bankruptcy protection. There is already a deal in place to sell Houlihan’s to restaurant operator Landry’s for $40 million, as well as the assumption of some liabilities, according to The Wall Street Journal on Thursday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2017

With more than 3,000 stores already in operation in the country, another 2,000 are in plans and slated for opening by 2021. “To China is Starbucks’ second largest — and fastest growing — market. CEO, Kevin Johnson, the company builds more new company-operated locations in China than in its home country. According to its U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

“It is for governments to decide the rules on VAT and in every country we operate, Netflix respects those rules,” Netflix told Reuters. Amazon Web Services, Google and Spotify did not respond to requests for comment.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2017

Amazon is preparing to bring its checkout-free grocery store Amazon Go to Europe in an attempt to crack the $800 billion global market. A promotional video for Amazon Go on YouTube has been viewed more than 9 million times, and the company has already opened a futuristic test store under that name in Seattle. Last week, the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2020

Los Angeles, Seattle, Boston, Phoenix, Dallas and New York City. drivers for free, with the goal of providing 50 percent ride coverage in these markets,” the company wrote. “Following positive feedback from drivers and riders, we’re now providing partitions to additional drivers in Washington, D.C.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Vacancy rates also improved during the past year in 43 cities, including Seattle, Las Vegas and Chicago. There have been indications of trouble in local retail property markets as landlords prepare for store closures after Forever 21 ’s bankruptcy. But retail vacancies increased by 2.4

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The combined efforts of Daimler and Via, out of its Amsterdam headquarters, will operate as a separate entity, and the service itself would allow rides to be hailed through smartphones. Via is currently operating in the United States, with an annual tally of about 12 million rides across New York, Washington and Chicago.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2018

Founded in 2017, Bungalow aims to solve many of the issues that early career professionals face when looking to rent in urban markets. Since its launch, the company has operated in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego and Seattle. markets by the end of 2018. putting it on track to be in 12 major U.S.

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