WASHINGTON — Nearly 1,700 companies and more than 200 merchant trade groups publicly asked the U.S. Congress to support the bipartisan Credit Card Competition Act of 2022, legislation that aims to enhance competition and choice in the credit card network market. Merchants who put their brand names on the public statement include Walmart, Target, Alimentation Couche-Tard, 7-Eleven and more across industries…
Source: CGA September 7, 2022 The last few years have been challenging for the On Premise channel, but CGA by NielsenIQ’s latest research reveals that the channel’s performance is stronger than ever – highlighting how key it is for driving brand awareness, trial and spend in both out-of-home and at-home consumption. What are the latest…
Big Pharma and Big Tobacco are helping market high-potency, psychosis-inducing THC products as your mother’s ‘medical marijuana’ Source: https://www.tabletmag.com/ LEIGHTON WOODHOUSE September 5, 2022 For 30 years, Dr. Libby Stuyt, a recently retired addiction psychiatrist in Pueblo, Colorado, treated patients with severe drug dependency. Typically, that meant alcohol, heroin, and methamphetamines. But about five years…
With recreational cannabis use now legalized across many states, and consumption lounges following fast, does this signal a coming shift in consumer behavior? Source: https://daily.sevenfifty.com/ August 31, 2022 At the back of the Rise dispensary in Mundelein, Illinois, about 45 minutes from downtown Chicago, is a new cannabis consumption lounge. Bar stools face shelves stocked…