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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. billion to $43.6 billion for fiscal 2020.

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Here’s How to Become More Than the Branch Next Door

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Here are a few striking initiatives that caught my attention in the last couple of months: Issue biodegradable debit cards While Mastercard will require banks to use sustainable materials in issuing new payment cards by 2028, Bank of New Hampshire has been issuing biodegradable debit cards since last August. Well, guess what?

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Store Front Business Index: Main Street USA, A-OK?

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One of the most significant: the health and importance of small businesses, and in particular, the “mom and pop” shops that line the main streets and side streets of our local communities. This quarter’s edition shows what happened, through the end of 2015, to the businesses that keep our local communities thriving and surviving.

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Marketplace Lending And Curbside Delivery Sizzle, Ridesharing Fizzles

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Discount grocery retailer ALDI has found itself in an ongoing price war with its competitors: Walmart , Kroger , Target and Lidl. The nation’s largest retailer by sales is partnering with Alert Innovation to build out a robotic fulfillment center in its Salem, New Hampshire store. trillion in cash spent in 2016.

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The Election That Misplaced Small Businesses

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million businesses that line the main streets and side streets of the local communities across the U.S. Small business owners don’t expect to be the star of the show, but wherever we went — and we went to Vermont , New Hampshire , Massachusetts , Virginia , South Carolina and Georgia — we heard the same two things over and over again.

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Bringing The Farmers Market Online With Apps

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It offers delivery or convenient pickup locations in the community as it has partnerships with breweries, libraries and workplaces. That opens the door for producers from Southern Maine, New Hampshire, Western Massachusetts and Rhode Island.)