1. Department: Nonfood

Federal Agencies Overhaul Bank Partner Rules to Drive Innovation

Four federal agencies are seeking comment on proposed guidance to help financial institutions manage risk associated with third-party relationships. The proposed third-party risk management guidance and the request for comment were announced Friday (Sept. 11) in a joint release issued by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Federal Reserve Board, the National Credit Union Administration […]
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Rutter’s Takes Happy Hour From the Restaurant to the Grocerant

  For decades, restaurants—particularly full-service restaurants—have understood something that convenience stores are now exploiting exceptionally well: Consumers don’t simply buy food. They buy occasions. Happy hour is one of the classic examples. Restaurants created an entire marketing occasion around a traditionally slow period of the day by combining time, price, beverages, food and socializing into […]
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Rent the Runway Names Nordstrom Veteran Paige Thomas CEO

Rent the Runway appointed its chief commercial officer and Nordstrom veteran, Paige Thomas, as CEO, president and member of the board of directors, the company said in a Friday (Sept. 11) press release. Thomas joined the company as CCO in June. Before that, she served as chief merchant and product innovation officer at Signet Jewelers, […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Apple Enables One-Tap Gift Card Redemption in Upcoming iOS Update

Apple’s upcoming mobile operating system, iOS 27, will enable users to redeem Apple gift cards by tapping them on a compatible iPhone, MacRumors reported Wednesday (Sept. 9). The iPhone will scan a security chip in Apple’s gift cards to verify that the card is authentic and unspent in an attempt to reduce scams, the report […]
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  1. CPG: Food

Handheld Protein Is Becoming the New Currency of Foodservice Convenience

  Why Restaurants, Grocery Stores and Convenience Stores Need a Handheld Strategy for Every Daypart—and Every Takeout Occasion From the perspective of Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA-based Foodservice Solutions® Consumers are dynamic, not static. That simple fact is becoming increasingly important to foodservice operators in 2025 and 2026. Consumers are changing not only […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Hershey’s Jessica DuQuesne & Flywheel’s Allyson Gill – Building a Winning Global Omnichannel “Scream for Reese’s” Campaign

The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Jessica DuQuesne, Global Brand Marketing & Strategy Lead at The Hershey Company and Allyson Gill, Managing Director at Flywheel, the commerce accelerator division of Omnicom. Follow Jessica on Linkedin at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-duquesne-exec/ Follow the Hershey Company online at: https://www.thehersheycompany.com/ Follow Alyson on Linkedin at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allyson-holland-gill-55194a2/ Follow Flywheel […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Labor Day Weekend 2026: How Furniture & Mattress Retailers Performed

Fewer shoppers, not weaker salesmanship defined this year’s Labor Day weekend.  Furniture foot traffic fell 16.2% and revenue dropped 23.8% compared to last year, with the slide getting worse as the weekend went on — Sunday and Labor Day itself were the hardest-hit days.  Mattress traffic fell even further, down 30%, but the stores that […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Top Outpatient Surgery Companies: 10 Market Leaders to Watch

Outpatient surgical procedures have moved from a niche alternative to the dominant mode of surgical care delivery across most developed healthcare systems. A combination of minimally invasive technology, favorable reimbursement policy, and sustained pressure on healthcare budgets has steadily shifted volume away from inpatient wards. Procedures that once required multi-day hospital admissions — joint replacement, […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Visa Direct Targets Cross-Border Trade’s SMB Payment Gap

Watch more: PYMNTS On Air With Justin Zhao of Visa Direct and Ran Grushkowsky of MassPay  A small business can find a customer, supplier or contractor halfway around the world in minutes, then may spend several days trying to determine where the payment went. For a small or mid-sized business (SMB), sending funds abroad can […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Squint’s Founder Turns Factory Know-How Into AI’s Starting Point

Ask a veteran factory technician how to fix a machine that’s acting up, and the answer might sound less like an engineering manual and more like folklore: if it smells like this, hit it three times on the left side and it comes back to life. That kind of knowledge never gets written down. It […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

Sam Altman Floats Industrywide Pause as Frontier AI Safety Concerns Grow

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees in a company-wide meeting that the firm is considering slowing down its development of cutting-edge artificial intelligence, Bloomberg reported Friday (Sept. 11), citing unnamed sources. Altman said that he hopes other AI labs will join OpenAI in the slowdown, but that some may not do so, according to the […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

California Starts Regulating the People Who Audit AI

California has moved beyond requiring companies to examine the risks of artificial intelligence and has begun regulating the people hired to perform those examinations. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday (Sept. 9) signed two bills that California described as the nation’s first framework for independent AI verification organizations and auditors. A day later, he signed a companion chatbot […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

What a $13 Million DOJ Case Reveals About B2B’s KYB Problem

The next frontier of know your business (KYB) may have surprisingly little to do with knowing whether a business exists. Instead, the governance and operational advantage is shifting to how a business has changed since Firm A last engaged with Firm B, or C or D, and so on. A federal case announced Wednesday (Sept. […]
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  1. International

Trading Standards praises retailers after underage sales checks in London

Barking and Dagenham Council’s Trading Standards team has highlighted the results of a summer programme of underage test purchasing operations, which saw the vast majority of local businesses comply with age-restriction laws. Of the 71 premises visited, all successfully refused sales of alcohol and tobacco… This story continues at Trading Standards praises retailers after underage […]
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  1. CPG: Beverage

CCEP expands on ‘Supercan’ success across more of its biggest brands

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) is expanding its 500ml Supercan line-up, with Sprite, Fanta Orange and Dr Pepper now available nationwide in the larger single-serve can format. The three brands join Coca-Cola Original Taste, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar and Diet Coke in the Supercan range, with the… This story continues at CCEP expands on ‘Supercan’ success across […]
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  1. Corporate Finance

VK targets students with multimedia marketing freshers campaign

With freshers right around the corner, RTD brand VK is launching a nationwide multi-media marketing campaign, designed to put the brand front of mind as students embark on their university journey. Backed by an investment of £1m, the out-of-home will roll out across five key… This story continues at VK targets students with multimedia marketing […]
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  1. CPG: Food

Are Snacks Really the New Mini-Meals? The Price, Portability and Flavor Battle for Immediate-Consumption Food

  The restaurant industry has spent years talking about the “snackification” of America. But in 2025 and 2026, Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® based Foodservice Solutions® in Tacoma, WA  thinks we need to be much more precise. Consumers are not simply replacing meals with snacks. They are fragmenting meals into more frequent, smaller, portable and price-sensitive […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Top 10 Retailers Every Decade

Doug McMillon, the former CEO of Walmart, used to carry a picture on his iPhone, of the top 10 retailers in the US every decade. He did it to remind him that no retailer is entitled to stay on the list forever. His list was slightly historically inaccurate (due to how the source used to […]
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  1. Channel: Club

2025 Top 5 Retailers

Here is my best estimate of the top 5 retailers in the US in 2025, and what their GMV is. Note that this include Walmart only, not Sam’s Club $93B in US GMV, then Walmart Inc is the #1 retailers in the US in 2025. Amazon $536 BWalmart $495 BCostco $ 200 BHome Depot US […]
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  1. Channel: Club

2025 Top 5 US Retailers by Growth

It’s one thing to be a big retailer, it’s another thing to capture the most incremental consumer spending. Here are the five retailers that adding the most incremental sales dollars in 2025. These 5 retailers captured 48% of all new spending in 2025. Amazon $47.2 B Walmart $22.8 B Costco $16.9 B TikTok Shop $6.1B […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

Mastercard Sees Digital Wallet Users Exceeding 6 Billion by 2030

By 2030, more than 6 billion people could be using digital wallets. That’s according to Mastercard, which on Thursday (Sept. 10) introduced a set of solutions designed to help wallet providers offer a better user experience. Mastercard Wallet Pay is “designed to foster interoperability and innovation” for digital wallets across contactless (NFC), QR codes and online digital payments, […]
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