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Sweetgreen's Plan To Build A 'Food Platform' On eCommerce Principles
 

Sweetgreen started with a very simple message — a place where customers could get healthy, locally-sourced food that tasted good — on the quick and cheap. Now with over 90 restaurants and over a million mobile customers, the brand is thinking bigger about how it can build not just a restaurant chain, but a food platform for its customers.

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2018: The Year Of The Subscription

 

In 2018, companies from Tovala to DoorDash served up subscription offerings in the prepared food space, while Mercedes-Benz and Lyft took the subscription business model for a transportation spin. Here’s how these brands, among others, adapted their business models to subscriptions in 2018 — and where the pricing strategy is headed in the future.  Read More...

 
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mPOS At 37,000 Feet

 

Serving food and drinks to 200 passengers at 37,000 feet in the air used to mean balancing snack boxes in one hand and manual, paper-based sales reconciliations in the other. In the January mPOS Tracker, PYMNTS caught up with Eswee Vorster, head of IT and innovation at airline FlySafair, about how mPOS is changing airlines’ in-flight purchases gameRead More...

 
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Does An Active Holiday Shopping Season Portend A Happy Spending New Year?

 

2018 has wrapped up and all eyes are on 2019, with many wondering if retail’s recent strength will carry into the new year. There are plenty of good signs, but also a few warning lights that should be taken seriously.  Read More...

 
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