Data Shows a Dramatic Spike in Online Reviews This Year

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The amount of business reviews left online has nearly doubled in the past year, according to a new joint report from Merchant Centric, a data analytics company, and Xenial, a restaurant point-of-sale management company. The two companies collaborated on an analysis of 27 million businesses across a number of different sectors, including restaurants and retail, and found that customers had left over 611 mil

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