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Walmart To Lay Off 1K Employees At Its Headquarters

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Bloomberg reported news that between 400 and 500 jobs were cut this week in marketing, human resources, merchandising, real estate and other departments. Earlier this month, it suddenly closed 63 Sam’s Club warehouses in several states, including in Arizona, Alaska, Texas, New Jersey, Indiana and New York. million nationwide.

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Groupon Partners With Points To Launch Loyalty Commerce Initiative

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users make a purchase, they can now choose an incentive of up to 10 points or miles per dollar spent from some of the world’s leading loyalty programs , including the Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan, Choice Privileges, IHG Rewards Club, JetBlue’s TrueBlue loyalty program, La Quinta Returns and others. When Groupon’s U.S.

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Bustlingly Busy, Visa’s Vistas Expand

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Big Tech Battle of Market Caps : Amazon’s market cap has hit a significant milestone. With a new high of $900 a share, the company’s recent market cap stood at more than $430 billion. That’s nearly twice the market cap of Walmart and has three times the revenue of that stalwart eCommerce player. The lesson here?

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How Masabi Makes Public Transit Ticketing Mobile

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In a recent interview with PYMNTS, Donovan explained how the company works to replace good ol’ transit tickets in 30 global markets. In that 2007 pilot test program, commuters could buy tickets in-person or online and have them delivered to their mobile phones. From paper to digital. A mobile future .

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Ordering Pizza Looks Easy, But It’s Not — Here’s Why

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It had to choose between three platforms that had seen success at its 450 locations across California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Alaska, Hawaii and two international markets. Over the years, we collected three good online ordering partners,” Kohn said.

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Why 9 In 10 Merchants Put Subscription Product Details On A Pedestal

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Misfits Market , for instance, offers produce in a large “madness box” or a small box called a “mischief box.” Little Spoon sends meals to customers across the United States — except Hawaii and Alaska — on a biweekly basis for a 14-day supply. More than two-thirds — or 68.4

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Moving Services Use The Gig Economy To Simplify Pricing For Consumers

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But services such as Bellhops are disrupting the market — and making a challenging time for consumers easier — by bringing an on-demand pricing model to the moving industry. To use the service, consumers can book a move online. The idea came about by helping college students move in and out of their dorms at Auburn University in 2011.

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