Panera Bread slashes dozens of popular menu items, including kids meals, from certain stores as the chain tries to simplify operations

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Panera Bread axed nearly 50 items from its menu in less than 3% of its stores, including flatbreads. The items were introduced in 2020.

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Walmart's corporate employees are getting a generative AI assistant while Amazon and Apple are restricting AI in the workplace

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Walmart's new AI "assistant" is expanding the retailer's AI efforts in its workplace.

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Is your food safe to eat? Why your wasabi, vanilla, and honey could be fake

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Hate to break it to you, but your truffle oil wasn't made from truffles. Your vanilla extract? Well, that's probably just a lab-made derivative of crude oil. And your shaker of Parmesan cheese? It probably has wood pulp inside.

Activewear and luxury brands are pushing ahead with Web3 innovation, while other marketers are still on the sidelines

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Dispatch provides a way for users to make purchases in games and websites without navigating to another site.

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Las Vegas is the latest flashpoint between workers and AI, from robot bartenders to casino security guards

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Las Vegas is already seeing the effects of AI, including robot bartenders.

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Amazon is reportedly getting into legal fights with landlords as 'zombie' Amazon Fresh stores pile up

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The front of an Amazon Fresh store in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Amazon is reportedly facing lawsuits from landlords over some proposed Amazon Fresh stores.

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The UK's biggest grocery chain is offering body cameras to staff as it seeks to fight the 'scourge on society' of retail crime and abuse to staff

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A customer looks at some canned food at the Tesco supermarket, in Aylesbury, England, on August 15, 2023.
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We opened a restaurant with a no-tipping policy. We have to charge more, but it's been totally worth it.

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Vinod Kalathil and his wife Margaret Pak, owners of Thattu in Chicago
Vinod Kalathil and his wife Margaret Pak recently opened no-tip restaurant Thattu in Chicago.

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I shopped at Amazon Fresh to see why it's struggling. I found hyped discounts, odd displays, and bad coffee.

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Insider reporter Alex Bitter stands outside an Amazon Fresh grocery store in Maryland.
Amazon Fresh has operated grocery stores for three years, but the chain has yet to win over many shoppers.

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Do you want 'Deez Nuts' or 'Dee's Nuts'? The confusion is part of the problem, a company suing MrBeast's food brand says in a lawsuit.

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YouTuber MrBeast posing with his Feastables chocolate range.
MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, launched Feastables to sell chocolate in 2022.

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