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Walmart shooter likely used card to buy gun

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The gunman in a 2019 attack at an El Paso Walmart store likely used a credit card to buy his gun online. This story is one in a series of pieces tracking payment methods for guns used in mass shootings.

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COVID Case Spike Adds Fuel To Digital-First Economy

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More consumers are shopping online for retail goods, groceries and restaurant orders than ever before, and more are also now saying that they do not intend to go back to shopping in stores once the pandemic recedes. For example, when consumers shop this holiday season a greater percentage will do so online. Our research shows that 85.3

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TFCU Picks ProPay For Pay-by-Text Loan Payments

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It was announced yesterday (March 17) that the TSYS company’s LenderPay solution — which allows financial customers to pay loans by responding to a text message, clicking an email hyperlink or tapping their smartphone — has been selected by El Paso Area Teachers Federal Credit Union (TFCU) for handling such transactions.

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Why Innovation Is Nothing Without Distribution

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Regardless, it’s an interesting data point for why the country’s oldest (and one of the world’s largest) CPGs – with a market cap of $34 billion – might be willing to wager at least some part of its future on a five-year-old company with $100 million in sales that sells bulk food online. From Betty Crocker to Boxed.

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Amazon-Walmart Whole Paycheck Tracker: COVID-19 Tests, Congressional Questions And Navigating The New Normal

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If these allegations are true, then Amazon exploited its role as the largest online marketplace in the U.S. But in Las Vegas, Orlando , El Paso and Detroit – with a sprinkling of other sites in Nevada, Florida, Texas and Michigan – drive-through testing centers for the COVID-19 virus have started to quietly open up.

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Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: Fingerprints, Firearms And FedEx 

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According to reports in Business Insider , Amazon is now accepting returns on purchases made online in its some of its Go stores in addition to its book shops where it already accepts returns. The announcement comes about a month after an El Paso, Texas Walmart was the scene of a mass shooting incident that left 22 people fatally wounded.

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Tesla To Grow Retail Presence In US, Abroad 

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CEO Elon Musk raised the possibility of shuttering its stores and selling only online , the California electric vehicle and clean energy company is planning to expand its retail presence. More than a year after Tesla Inc.

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