Tammy Johnson

Tammy Johnson is the Retail Editor at BusinessPundit. She focuses on Fortune 500 retail company's and disruptive brick-and-mortar and e-commerce companies that are changing the retail landscape.

  • Sonic CEO and the minimum wage debate

    Sonic CEO says menu prices will rise over minimum wage laws

    Clifford Hudson, CEO of Sonic, believes a minimum wage hike will likely lead to higher menu prices for customers. States from California to New York have already raised wages or are currently working towards that goal. In some states, wages by 2020 will reach $15 per hour for minimum wage employees. “I am not suggesting that […]

  • MasterCard to offer selfie authentication

    MasterCard to offer selfie authentication to approve online purchases

    MasterCard wants customers to take a selfie in order to validate their online purchases. The new platform, launching for mobile devices, allows customers to authenticate their purchases using their fingerprint or by taking a new selfie. MasterCard is rolling out the technology to the US, Canada, the UK, and some European countries over the next […]

  • Amazon delivery company

    Amazon is making a big play to surpass Fedex and UPS

    Leaked documents from Amazon show that the company is about to make a big play at surpassing Fedex and UPS as America’s largest shipping company. Analysts have known for a while that Amazon has big plans for its global shipping and logistics business but leaked documents discovered by Bloomberg’s Spencer Soper, show plans on a more […]