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Community banks are thriving in Texas

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With the record growth of San Antonio, Houston and Austin, southern Texas is becoming a hub for business. Here’s how four community banks are thriving in this environment. increase, while the San Antonio metro, up 19.4%, ranked 12th. San Antonio has proved itself as a place full of business and opportunity.

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Facebook To Open Small Biz Pop-Up Concept In Select Macy’s

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The move will bring 100 popular small businesses and digital brands on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores — just in time for the holiday shopping season. And the retailer is flexible on timing: brands can stay for as short a time period as a month. Compared to traditional pop-up stores, Macy’s own staff services the brands.

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Macy’s Spotlights Women-Owned Businesses With SoGifted

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The retailer is opening SoGifted shops in its flagship Manhattan store and six other locations. The SoGifted shops feature products and gifts from women-founded enterprises in the SoGal community. The pop-up shop is dedicated to selling products from a variety of women-led small businesses and will be open through January. Lauderdale.

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Retail Pulse: The Price Must Be Right

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It’s been a week of experimentation in retail, with many big names opening new types of stores to — as the saying goes — see what sticks. It seems more likely that these brands will uncover their key rather than some universal master retail key that can solve the brick-and-mortar challenge across the board.

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Why Goodwill Regions Are Tapping Into Digital Marketplaces

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Goodwill San Antonio eCommerce Manager Michael Anthony Morse said in the announcement that the tie-up has given the organization exposure and helps it work toward its mission. The partnership between OfferUp and Upright Labs has allowed Goodwill San Antonio to reach a national audience on the OfferUp marketplace,” he said.

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Carvana Opens Largest Car Vending Machine In Tempe

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Tempe joins 11 other cities that have Carvana vending machines, including Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Nashville (Tenn.), We’re incredibly proud to be a part of the metro Phoenix community,” said Ernie Garcia, founder and CEO of Carvana, in a press release announcing the launch of its latest vending machine.

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Car Vending Machine Company Carvana Goes Up Against Wall Street

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billion, on an 82 percent increase in retail sales. The analyst community balked at longer-term questions about the company’s liquidity even though 2019 was the company’s sixth straight year of triple-digit revenue growth with over 177,000 cars delivered and just shy of $4 billion in revenue. In 2019, we increased GPU by $750. “We

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