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Casino Reopenings Draw In Gamblers Despite Online Gaming Surges

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Casinos in Mississippi and Louisiana are reopening this week, and visitors are traveling long distances and waiting in lines to enter the facilities, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. And while gamers flock to the casinos in some states, in others they are swarming online gambling sites. million in March of last year.

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PSCU’s Lumin Enables Digital Payments For TN Credit Union

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Originally founded in 1957 to serve personnel on the naval base in Millington, Tennessee, First South Financial has expanded its financial services offerings across Tennessee and Mississippi. The addition of Lumin Digital gives the credit union (CU) another offering on its menu of digital financial products and services.

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Online Sports Betting Gets A Super Bowl Workout

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5), details emerged about the success and failure of the new online sports betting regime in the U.S. Compare that to Nevada, where bettors made nearly $146 million worth of legal wagers — about 9 percent less than the 2018 Super Bowl — while gamblers in Mississippi put up at least $4.6 But it stands as the major U.S.

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

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Or sometimes, as is the case in rural Mississippi, the population is too sparse and thinly stretched to reasonably support stores that are accessed with anything but cars, despite the fact that 47 percent of the local population doesn’t own or have regular access to a car. SNAP online . Is there any way out of that?

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Facebook, Online Lending, Cash – And The Twilio Surge

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This week it was Minnesota, and then yesterday Walmart really got warmed up and announced the expansion of their new payments service in: Michigan, Virginia, the Carolinas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Washington, D.C. Online lending .

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Walmart Pay Launches In 16 States, DC

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Shortly after the Walmart Pay news was announced, Walmart SVP of Services Daniel Eckert told Karen Webster that the payment method was built to leverage a habit that its customers already know how to do really well: shop online at Walmart.com. We can’t wait to hear what our customers and associates in [these states] think of Walmart Pay.

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Bye Bye Bougie: Curtsy Offers Closet Strategies For Gen Z

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There’s no denying that consumers of all ages are increasingly comfortable shopping online, but when it comes to younger, digitally native customers, it turns out they’re also increasingly comfortable selling online, too. But it wasn’t always that way.

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