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Retail Pulse: Walmart Provides Health Career Path; Inspire Brands To Buy Jimmy John’s

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Brick-and-mortar retailers are expanding their efforts to provide customers with health and wellness services while taking steps to train their employees for healthcare roles. The retailer’s 1.5 million U.S. associates can now apply for two career diplomas or one of seven bachelor’s degrees. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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Retailers Look To Digital Technologies After Beating The Street

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Retailers and retail landlords are reporting strong first-quarter earnings results, beating analysts’ expectations in many cases. Management noted on the conference call with analysts following the earnings report that there was a “positive comp gap” between the company and quick-service restaurant peers of as much as 270 basis points.

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When An 110-Year-Old Company Needs A Digital Upgrade

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In 1910, Albert Roye installed a glass-cutting machine in a small shed behind his home in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania and founded what he dubbed the Susquehanna Glass Factory. After a decade, the business had grown up enough that it moved to a real factory in nearby Columbia, Pennsylvania.

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You call yourself a brand manager?

Jeff For Banks

The Pennsylvania Turnpike’s Valley Forge rest stop is a common waypoint for me on my travels. This reminds me when my daughter performed a soda taste test at the local swimming pool, pitting Coke, Pepsi, RC, and a generic brand against each other. The winner: generic brand. What does your brand stand for?

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Urban Outfitters Speeds Up And Branches Out

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Urban Outfitters was beginning to look like a lot of other physical retail brands that were getting into hot water in the digital age. Comparable sales were down, revenue was falling and the murmurs about another once-hip brand falling from grace started to make the rounds.

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CVS Health Unveils Atlanta HealthHUBs; Target’s Digital Sales Rise Despite Slow Growth

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Retailers are aiming to help consumers manage chronic diseases as well as their overall health and wellness through new brick-and-mortar experiences. Through HealthHUBs, consumers are at the center of an unmatched retail health experience. CVS Health, however, is not the only retailer to bolster its health offerings.

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Fraud Decisioning Orchestrates A Response

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Some people think the best thing about the Pennsylvania-based convenience store and fuel chain Wawa is their absurdly delicious jalapeño-stuffed pretzels, oozing with molten cheese. So very tasty. Bad people love Wawa , too – mostly for its large database of consumer information. Sealing It.

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