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- Categories: Data
As a retailer with multiple locations, you know beverage program compliance is key to maintaining the integrity of your business. But with so many locations to manage, manually keeping track of adherence is a daunting task that can leave you feeling like you’re drowning in spreadsheets. What if
- Categories: Convenience Stores
Our friends over at CStore Decisions recently posted a blog discussing how c-stores can integrate automation into their business to “help reallocate labor to more important tasks.” While automation certainly helps address labor shortages, the blog raises some interesting points about how maintaining a “human touch” is essential
- Categories: Regulations, Retailers
The conversation about naloxone is beginning to surface in the retail alcohol world (especially the on-premises), and some state legislators are considering bills that would require on-premises alcohol retailers to keep it on their licensed premises and/or include naloxone administration in their server/seller training requirements. Naloxone (you
Founded in 2019, Thomas P’s Sports Bar & Patio has quickly become a top spot in Tampa Bay. The crowd-favorite location combines sports and entertainment with over 40 TVs, a large outdoor patio and bar area, and live music. Thomas P’s menu features pub favorites, a coveted Chicago-inspired
- Categories: General, Legal, Regulations, Retailers
The drinking age has long been a curious issue. Many feel that you should be able to legally purchase alcohol at 18 since you are able to vote, get married, enlist in the army, be drafted, and purchase tobacco products at that age. While the legal drinking
- Categories: Data
Winning valuable shelf space can be challenging. With increased competition, shifting consumer demand, and limited space, how can you ensure your products are displayed in the best possible way? The answer lies in point-of-sale (POS) data – the holy grail of retail and market metrics. By monitoring POS
- Categories: General, Insights/Trends, Retailers
NCAA’s March Madness is coming to an end this weekend in both the women’s and men’s divisions. If you are like most people, your bracket was blown up after the first round. Now you can sit back and enjoy the final games with an ice-cold beverage in hand.
- Categories: Convenience Stores, Data, General, Payments, Retailers
The National Advisory Group (NAG) for Convenience Retail is hosting its 2023 Conference in Austin, TX, from March 26-29. Fintech is a proud conference sponsor, and Mark Kimber, Chief Revenue Officer, and Eric Flores, Director of Enterprise Sales, will be at our booth demonstrating how Fintech leverages your
- Categories: Alcohol Distributors, General, Payments
Fintech values our relationships with alcohol distributors and their role in the three-tier system. One of our distributor partners, Adams Beverages, is a family-owned and operated Anheuser-Busch wholesaler that started in Dothan, Alabama, in 1937. Eric Kiser, Vice President of Distributor Strategy at Fintech, recently traveled to Alabama
- Categories: Legal, Payments, Regulations
If you didn’t read our first MI Administrative Order blog, this one will discuss how both alcohol distributors and the retailers they deliver too benefit from this new state order. The buzz around Michigan has been all about a new order implemented by the Michigan Liquor Control Commission.
- Categories: Alcohol Distributors, Payments
Alcohol distributors are constantly looking to increase their footprint by adding new retail locations to their routes. Distributors using Fintech know the cost savings and efficiencies created with each retail location introduced to the platform. But did you know Fintech has made the enrollment process even easier with
- Categories: General, Legal, Regulations
Bills, bills, everywhere bills. It’s only February, and I am already tracking 296 alcohol bills across 45 states. That’s a lot of pending legislative updates! The states with the most activity so far are New York (41 bills of interest), Montana (23), Maryland (22), Tennessee (13), Oklahoma (12),
The American Hotel and Lodging Association [AHLA] is anticipating hotel-generated state and local tax revenue to hit $46.71 billion nationwide by the end of the year. AHLA projects the national hotel occupancy rate to hit 63.8%, just shy of 2019’s 65.9%. Labor shortages are still expected as hotels
Fintech will be a sponsor at Vibe Conference 2023 in San Diego on February 27 – March 1. You can catch us at the Technology Showcase, which will be open throughout the conference. From the Vibe Conference agenda: “Immerse yourself in the latest technology taking over the beverage
- Categories: General, Insights/Trends, Retailers
Today is Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent. Many people sacrifice things like junk food, soda, and alcohol for 40 days until Easter Sunday. If you are one of the people sacrificing alcohol, you can opt for mocktails instead! Mocktails – cocktails without alcohol – have
- Categories: General, Insights/Trends, Retailers
Happy Mardi Gras! The famous celebration captures the nation’s attention with parades, traditional costumes, beads, floats, and plenty of imbibing. While most of the celebrations take place in the southeast, you can find Mardi Gras activities around the country. We’ve compiled some regional Mardi Gras cocktail recipes so
From the Desk of Richard Blau – Alcohol Beverage Section Chair, Gray Robinson, P.A. Sazerac Company, Inc., one of America’s foremost alcohol beverage suppliers and the makers of Fireball Cinnamon Whisky, is being sued in federal court for fraud and misrepresentation. The lawsuit alleges consumer confusion over another