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

PYMNTS

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. Beyond the training program, Walmart’s Sam’s Club is collaborating with multiple healthcare companies to offer discounts on routine care. billion to $43.6

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What are opportunities for accountants to provide advisory services?

Abrigo

Indeed, consultant Allan Koltin, one of Accounting Today’s 100 Most Influential People in Accounting and one of INSIDE Public Accounting’s Most Recommended Consultants, predicts growth in these Level 1 services will range from zero to at most 3 percent over the next decade – insufficient to cover rising payroll and operating expenses.

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Alibaba Flexes In Southeast Asia

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Last week, Alibaba and Southeast Asia acquisition Lazada, the leading eCommerce platform in Thailand, reportedly signed an agreement to provide eCommerce training to 30,000 Thai SMBs. Lazada operates in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam and has access to a consumer base of about 620 million.

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Brand Differentiation – How One Bank Is Producing 132% Profit Growth

South State Correspondent

Xpeers are hired explicitly for their customer service orientation and then trained in the Nubank culture. Xpeers then train in specialties and are matched with the problem. They use that loyalty and profit to expand into other services to build out the platform further while making sure they have operating leverage.

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What’s The Future For NBA-Related Retail In China?

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The two sides just announced an extension of their deal to the 2024-2025 season that’s reportedly worth $1.5 Meanwhile, Amazon and Alibaba have provided training for local merchants in setting up and operating stores as well as extending credit and logistics services to speed up delivery times. China’s Commerce Push.

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How community banks can address cybercrime

Independent Banker

trillion globally by 2025, according to research agency Cybersecurity Ventures, and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners said that 77% of anti-fraud experts reported they had seen more fraud between May and August 2021. Tailor cybercrime training for the home environment if your bank still has “work from home” employees.

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Should QSRs Be Scared Of ‘Ghost’ Restaurants?

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Over 80 percent of restaurant operators agree that the use of technology in a restaurant provides a competitive advantage and nearly four in 10 plan to invest more in expanding their off-premises business in 2019. Ghost Restaurants.