More than 60% of all purchases last year were made with a credit or debit card, according to the Federal Reserve. That’s up from 45% in 2016. That means big money for credit card companies, which made ...

Running a restaurant has never been easy, especially when you start up a business like I did in the middle of the COVID pandemic. The challenges back then were tough, from supply chain disruptions to ...

Many small businesses are breathing a bit easier as inflation has cooled and the race for workers slows. But consumers’ steady embrace of credit cards is taking a growing bite out of their margins.