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Pret a Manger was fined $1 million after an employee was trapped in a freezer for more than 2 hours and thought she was going to die

Thu, 08/31/2023 - 06:12

People walk past a branch of Pret a Manger in February 2022 — Pret a Manger was fined $1 million on Tuesday.
Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Retail, trending-uk, pret, pret-a-manger, London, Food, coffee-shop

Burger King must face a lawsuit claiming it makes its Whoppers look much larger and meatier on its menus, a judge rules

Wed, 08/30/2023 - 06:33

Whopper and fries from Burger King — The lawsuit claims Burger King changed its images of Whoppers to make its meat content look twice as large.
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Retail, fast-food, burger-king, Advertising, trending-uk, Food, Retail

Self checkout could be making Americans lonelier

Tue, 08/29/2023 - 14:58

People wearing coats and other cold-weather clothing scan and pay for groceries at a supermarket in New York City. Lighted signs that read — Self-checkout stations are one example of technology making Americans lonelier.
Andrew Kelly/Reuters

Retail, Grocery, Self-Checkout, Retail, Shopping, Stores, Food

Instacart's profitability relies in part on batching orders together — something that its gig workers hate

Fri, 08/25/2023 - 17:34

A man wearing a face mask and sunglasses backwards on his head looks at a receipt while standing in front of a shopping cart at a Giant grocery store in Washington DC in 2020. — Instacart has gotten its shoppers to deliver more orders at a time for the same or less pay over the last few years.
Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images

Retail, Tech Insider, instacart, Food, Delivery, eCommerce, Retail

CloudKitchens, ghost restaurant news and updates

Fri, 08/25/2023 - 15:45

Travis Kalanick — Travis Kalanick.
Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch

Tech Insider, cloudkitchens, ghost-kitchens, travis-kalanick, Startups, restaurants, Food

Instacart just filed for its IPO and revealed a plan to sell $175 million in stock to PepsiCo

Fri, 08/25/2023 - 14:57

instacart shopper — Instacart filed a prospectus, a document outlining its business and planned IPO, on Friday afternoon.
Photo by Nick Otto for the Washington Post/Getty Images

Retail, Retail, instacart, Food, Delivery, Shopping, eCommerce

A TikTok appears to show a Dollar Tree customer working the register herself when she can't find an employee

Thu, 08/24/2023 - 16:21

Customers shop at a Dollar Tree store in the Austin neighborhood on August 02, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. — A recent TikTok video appears to show a customer working the checkout stand at a store in Tennesse.
Scott Olson/Getty Images

Retail, dollar-store, dollar-tree, Retail, store, checkout, Food

The rise of Subway: the triumphant and turbulent last decades of the world's largest fast-food chain

Thu, 08/24/2023 - 12:21

subway — Subway's sales have been on the decline in recent years.
Horacio Villalobos / Getty

Retail, Subway, Food, Retail, restaurant, retail-apocalypse, trending-uk

Subway is being sold to a massive private-equity firm, finally moving the sandwich chain away from family ownership after nearly 60 years

Thu, 08/24/2023 - 08:34

A Subway store — Subway is being bought by private-equity company Roark Capital.
Grace Dean/Insider

Retail, trending-uk, Subway, Retail, roark-capital, roark-capital-group, fast-food

An AI-powered bot could take your next drive-thru order at one of these top fast-food restaurants

Wed, 08/23/2023 - 10:45

White Castle SoundHound — A voice bot screen greets drive-thru customers at White Castle.
SoundHound

Retail, Features, food-delivery, fast-food, Retail, automaton, Food

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