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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

With unemployment at new lows, staffing has become a challenge for retail companies. Retailers had 757,000 job openings in July, which is roughly 100,000 more than they had a year before, The Wall Street Journal reported. Retailers are hosting “recruiting marathons” to help hire thousands of people.

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JUNE 29, 2020

Retailers looking for the shape of an economic recovery have had several letters to choose from. If infections drop, retail spend has a better chance of recovering. No letters, patterns or retail bailouts will be more powerful than COVID-19. You can’t be in a retail business or any business without a plan,” he said.

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JULY 11, 2019

The pilot will provide service to customers in Olmos Park, just outside of downtown San Antonio where the grocery retailer is based,” according to TechCrunch. the grocery retailer, and Nuro, the SoftBank -backed robotics company, announced in March the launch of their autonomous grocery delivery service in Houston.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Big retailers are opening smaller-format stores in major U.S. Already, the retailer has opened a Planning Studio across the pond in London in October. In the announcement, IKEA Retail U.S. In other news, two Safeway stores in Arizona now have artificial intelligence-powered medical clinics via an Akos Med Clinic partnership.

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JULY 17, 2020

The new stores will be in Cherry Hill, New Jersey; Bismarck, North Dakota; Saratoga Springs, Utah; Surprise, Arizona and Idaho Falls, Idaho, Acorns reported. The new Surprise, Arizona store, in one case, is a 40-minute drive away from a Phoenix store that is shuttering in the fall. The retailer’s eCommerce sales spiked 64.5

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Payments Source

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Arizona's largest independent grocery chain, was certain it was prepared for the October 2015 EMV liability shift. Bashas' Inc., After all, it had begun purchasing terminals for all of its 1,400 checkout lanes a year in advance.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

The chain currently has 167 retail locations, most of them operating under the Shoe Palace flag. More than 50 percent of the retail locations are in California, but the retailer has an “established retail presence” in Hawaii, New Mexico, Colorado, Florida, Arizona, Nevada and Texas.

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Banking Exchange

JUNE 24, 2019

Retail Banking Technology Payments Branch Technology/ATMs Blockchain Fintech Financial Research Feature Financial Trends Feature3. What do Circle K convenience stores have to do with Bitcoin?

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JULY 5, 2020

The reminder is intended for banks with clients that include marijuana retailers or individuals that grow, process, or manufacture pot. a Nevada-based, publicly-traded company that owns processing centers and a 5,000-square-foot retail store in Arizona, praised FinCEN’s update. Hemp Inc.,

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Amazon Fresh, a new physical retail concept from Amazon, is setting up shop in four locations in the Chicago market, the Chicago Tribune reported. In Arizona, low-cost supermarket chain ALDI will bring two new stores to the Phoenix area.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

American businesses had more tax minimizing options prior to the ruling, as retailers selling all across the country were taxed on their physical presences. Arizona, for example, is phasing down its SMB exemption threshold to only affect those selling less than $100,000 in 2021.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Sizable blocks of absentee or mail-in ballots remain to be counted in such key states as Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona as of Wednesday afternoon, with the count in the Keystone State not expected to be done until Friday, if not later.

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Payments Dive

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The Arizona-based retailer knows its customer have become mobile-device obsessed, so it has worked with Verifone to expand its digital strategy.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2018

What about retail stores, restaurants and hotels? Technology is making it easier for the workforce to put in the daily eight (or 10, or 12) hours from their own homes, but another change is taking place: Using commercial space left behind by retailers, or in eateries or hotels, as communal areas of work. WeWork Efforts.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

It’s not uncommon for online brands to open brick-and-mortar stores, and it seems that Google may be the latest digitally native brand to take the plunge into offline retail. In the past, the Chicago Tribune noted that retail and technology experts had thought Google would build stores to create a place to highlight its electronics.

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JULY 21, 2020

As it begins a new period of growth, ALDI intends to open over 70 new retail locations by the conclusion of 2020. ALDI said it keeps planning “aggressive growth” and will come into Arizona later in 2020 with four new locations in the greater vicinity of Phoenix.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

In the longer run, the service will grow over the next several months to the grocer’s 570 retail locations throughout California, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Florida. Amazon Fresh, a new physical retail concept from Amazon, is setting up shop in four locations in the Chicago market, the Chicago Tribune reported.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

After opening retail locations in four states, Kohl’s said it intends to open stores in 10 more states on Monday (May 11) as it follows a phased approach to retail reopening. The company said in an announcement that it will also open further retail locations in the weeks to come with “the same deliberate, measured approach.”.

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JULY 2, 2020

The tech company, which has 271 retail shops in the United States, has recently closed 47 stores again, CNBC reported. Their reclosures reportedly are a negative barometer of the ease with which retail operations are able to resume throughout the country.

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MARCH 10, 2018

However, the stakes can be much higher for retailers, as the length of a day can have a dramatic impact on how much (or how little) foot traffic they get. percent, while retail stores overall suffered a 4.8 When the clocks turn back, so do store profits, Vogue reported last fall. The Case Against DST. percent drop.

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MAY 28, 2018

This is the opposite of what has been seen in some other categories, where smaller-format stores are helping to stem the tide of closures – or, at least, retailers seem to hope that will be the case. Outside of grocery, crafts retailer A.C. Grocers, for instance, are heartily embracing small-format stores.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Our office continues to aggressively monitor this market to protect fair competition for consumers, authors, and other eBook retailers,” Mr. Tong said in a statement, per WSJ. A spokeswoman for Tong’s office told the Journal that Amazon is cooperating with the subpoena. The tech giant is also being probed by China.

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MAY 26, 2017

Boston-based eCommerce alcohol delivery startup Drizly has announced its next location in Phoenix, Arizona. Partnering to deliver alcohol from local liquor stores that include Lucky’s Liquor, Gary’s Liquor and Chandler Liquors, Phoenix residents will now be able to order and receive alcohol delivery from these retailers.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

10) announcement that it will be teaming up with Cruise , an autonomous electric vehicle venture controlled by General Motors , to start making deliveries to customers living near the Arizona city early next year. Walmart said in a Tuesday (Nov. This isn't the first time Walmart has teamed up with a driverless automobile company.

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JUNE 25, 2020

As instances of the coronavirus increase in Texas, Apple will shutter seven of its Houston-vicinity retail locations once again. Apple closed shops again in North Carolina, Florida, Arizona and South Carolina last week for like rationale, and has reportedly re-shuttered a total of 18 retail locations across the U.S. “We

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Its Amazon store launched last year, and the company said it is planning to expand its retail presence. . New Tesla locations are being planned in Tucson, Arizona; El Paso, Texas; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Smithtown, New York. Last month, the company reported strong earnings and a record profit for the third quarter.

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MARCH 14, 2019

the grocery retailer, and Nuro, the SoftBank -backed robotics company, announced on Thursday (March 14) the launch of their autonomous grocery delivery service in Houston. In a press release , the companies said the service will be available through two Houston Kroger stores, reaching customers residing in four local zip codes.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2016

Retail work has always been seen as somewhat of a transient employment prospect — from the teenagers working summer breaks to the single parents who pick up extra shifts to cover the bills — but what if investing in retail workers can not only keep them in the system longer, but produce a skilled crop of customer service experts in the process?

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The funding highlights investors' interest to provide funds to the firm at a time when it has seen the rewards of higher trading activity on the part of retail traders amid the pandemic. At the time, Robinhood said it intended to bring “hundreds” of financial services personnel onboard in 2020 in Tempe, Arizona and Southlake, Texas.

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JUNE 17, 2019

In other Nuro news, the SoftBank-backed robotics company and grocery retailer Kroger Co. Kroger and Nuro have operated a self-driving grocery delivery service in Scottsdale, Arizona, servicing a single ZIP code with an autonomous vehicle fleet since August.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Activewear brand Fabletics , which was co-founded by Kate Hudson in 2013, announced plans for a retail expansion across the U.S. The company confirmed that the new locations will bring the brand’s total retail store count to 30 locations throughout the U.S.

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BankInovation

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The $668 billion bank is expanding to Arizona, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, New York, Texas and Tennessee, according to its presentation at the BancAnalyst Association of Boston Conference on Thursday. Bank’s investment in digitalization has enabled it to reach beyond its branch network as it plans to expand to seven new markets.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

The 560-store chain, located mainly in the southeast, showed a drop in total retail sales for the 13-week period ended Aug. Total retail sales decreased approximately 35 percent for its second quarter. Dillard’s reported earnings Thursday (Aug. 1, 2020 of $893.2 million compared to $1,378.2 million in 2019. percent in January but up 6.4

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CB Insights

JANUARY 4, 2022

Arizona-based Paradox automates candidate recruiting, hiring, and onboarding processes. It has 500 clients across the healthcare, restaurant and retail, logistics and trucking, and finance industries. It maintains offices in Arizona, Maryland, Illinois, Tel Aviv, Vietnam, and Singapore. HOW’S THE COMPANY PERFORMING?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

Arizona, Louisiana and West Virginia displayed the least relative drops in spending at eateries on the part of cardholders in comparison to the year-prior time frame. Greg Abbott , the governor, said current rules for retail and restaurant capacity could stay, but no further actions would occur so long as cases were on the rise.

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MAY 9, 2018

Brands’ Pizza Hut is bringing beer delivery to approximately 100 of its restaurants in California and Arizona. The new rollout will include cities such as Tucson, Prescott and Winslow in Arizona, and Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Sacramento and Santa Barbara in California. As it stands, over 1,700 Pizza Hut locations in the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

And into the mix this week drops Macy’s — the latest in a string of the biggest names in retail to get on the stick with its own unique contribution to holiday retail hiring. But this year, Macy’s is trying out a new version of the hiring process with a national hiring holiday on Sept.

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