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Deep Dive: How Buy Online, Pickup In Store Helps Retailers Compete Against Delivery Giants

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Retailers seeking to provide rapid deliveries face an ever-moving target as consumers’ definition of speed evolves. A significant share of Generation Z consumers — those aged 18 to 25 — are turning to buy online, pick up in store ( BOPIS ) purchasing models to meet their speed needs. Quick Access and Impulses.

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Remote Seller Taxation: A Job For Tax Automation

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Wayfair Supreme Court decision continue to rattle online merchants, as three states (California, Louisiana and South Carolina) are now trying to collect eCommerce sales tax retroactively, as far back as five years. First, some context, for which we turn to Alaska. Aftershocks from the South Dakota v. Taxation With Representation.

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A ‘Diaper’ By Any Other Tax Code: The Complexities Of Selling Across State Tax Laws

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Even the ways retailers package their items can make a difference in their taxes. This month’s Next-Gen Sales Tax Tracker examines these compliance complexities and their impact, as well as ongoing efforts to streamline how retailers can fulfill their obligations. Easing tax compliance helps governments and retailers alike.

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Sears Sparked By Amazon Effect As Tires Gain Ground

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Retail is rendered, more and more, through digital means. It’s enough to think that the iconic Sears catalogue (which disappeared in 2011 due to an online sales shift and then reappeared last year amid nostalgia) is really, now, just a catalogue of top- and bottom-line maladies. The problems bedeviling Sears are well-known.

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The Business And Politics Of Pricing Trips To Cuba

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Despite the time between trips, Air Force One still managed to navigate smoothly enough to and from its destination, and remarks by both country’s leaders seemed to bode well for the complete normalization of diplomatic and trade relations in the very near future. official had done so in nearly 90 years. However, just because the U.S.

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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. Walmart will also discontinue handgun sales in Alaska, the only state where it still sells such weapons.

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The world’s most extreme ATMs

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The current ratio of ATMs compared to population is 420 per million (source: Retail Banking Research – Global ATM Market and Forecasts to 2020). Wells Fargo operates ATMs in Barrow, Alaska, which has the distinction of being the northernmost city in the USA. Located above the Arctic Circle, the town has a population of just over 4,000.

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