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Giving The Gift Of Michigan With Curated Boxes

PYMNTS

It’s all “nice, local, Michigan-made food products,” Founder Cory Wright told PYMNTS in an interview. The big draw, Wright said, is that someone has to have some type of allegiance to Michigan. Overall, Wright said, the company’s mission is simple: to make it as easy as possible for people to give the gift of Michigan.

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US Retailers Added 249,000 Jobs In August

PYMNTS

4) jobs report brought good news to the nation’s retail sector as it added nearly one quarter of a million jobs in August. It’s encouraging to see retailers bring back these jobs,” Sonia Lapinsky, a managing director at AlixPartners, the Michigan-based consulting firm, told the newspaper. Last Friday’s (Sept. million of the 2.4

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Midwest Retailer Meijer Signs With Instacart For Grocery Delivery

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Online delivery platform Instacart is teaming up with regional Midwest retailer Meijer to provide same-day delivery of groceries. Customers rely on Instacart to get the groceries and goods they need from the retailers they love," Instacart President Nilam Ganenthiran said in a Thursday (Dec. 3) press release. and Canada.

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Michigan Passes Self-Driving Regulations

PYMNTS

9), Michigan became the first state in the union to pass statewide, comprehensive self-driving vehicle regulations that allow autonomous vehicles to drive … well, autonomously. As of now, only motor vehicle manufacturers can operate self-driving car networks in Michigan. On Friday of last week (Dec.

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Supermarkets Hoard Staples For Holidays, COVID Resurgence

PYMNTS

Associated Food Stores , a Salt Lake City, Utah-based cooperative that supplies supermarkets, said it has started to build what it’s calling “pandemic pallets” of sanitizing products so its warehouses will be fully stocked, Darin Peirce, vice president of Retail Operations, told WSJ. “We

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Retail Pulse: Luckin Taps Into Automated Retail; Little Caesars To Team With DoorDash

PYMNTS

Coffee retailers are tapping into digital technology that helps them grow their reach beyond their stores, especially in China, where competition has been brewing between Chinese coffee chain Luckin Coffee and Starbucks. Luckin is hardly the only retailer tapping into the potential of vending machines. states and 24 countries.

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How savings app Plinqit wants to help banks

Bank Innovation

Plinqit was developed by Ann Arbor-based startup HT Mobile Apps (HTMA), which confirmed on Monday that it added Bank Michigan […].

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