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Giving The Gift Of Michigan With Curated Boxes

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Shoppers can pick out a gift box to send to a relative in Florida, for example. It’s all “nice, local, Michigan-made food products,” Founder Cory Wright told PYMNTS in an interview. When it comes to its target market, the company casts a wide net.

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The Edge Desk Capitalizes On Growing Work-From-Home Market

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Take, for example, The Edge Desk. Rosenberg got the idea during a visit to his daughter’s college dorm at Michigan State in 2016. “I The company’s primary marketing is through word-of-mouth activities: PR, influencers, sampling and very targeted Facebook and Instagram campaigns. Some products were just made for these times.

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Is Amazon’s Delivery ‘Purge’ A Boon To Last-Mile Rivals?

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There are another 120 workers slated to be let go in Michigan. “We Yet, in a competitive market, pay may matter. The Seattle Times reported that a Bear Down Logistics driver in Michigan makes $15 an hour, while UPS pays about $20 an hour in the same region for the same work.

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New Unemployment Claims Down 48K To 709K

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The COVID-19 vaccine is expected to have a positive effect on the labor market and other areas of the economy. Continued jobless claims — people filing for more than two weeks in a row — were 6.8 The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending Oct.

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Ingo’s Edwards Plays The Inside Straight On Online Gambling

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For example, Visa has recreated the MCC codes associated with online gambling to have a merchant verification process built in so that banks are no longer “blanket denying” anything that looks like a gambling transaction. Tennessee, he said, is his favorite example. Or Michigan, which starts online gambling Friday, Jan.

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Startup Food Delivery Apps Savor Local Flavor

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Take Holland Eats , which caters to 30,000 residents in Holland, Michigan. The app comes as the online food delivery market is booming. For the first time, digital orders outpaced phone orders, which stood at 5 percent, showing that food delivery services are joining established players in what appears to be a growing market.

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Kroger Becomes First North American Grocer To Launch In-Store Farms

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market, but it already has more than 500 farms globally and has teamed with 25 major food retailers in the U.K. Square Roots in Brooklyn, New York, for example, uses converted shipping containers to build farms. The startup recently partnered with Grand Rapids, Michigan to bring the system to food distributor Gordon Food Service.

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