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Retail Pulse: Sears To Open ‘Home & Life’ Stores, Amazon Reduces Whole Foods’ Prices

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The locations, which the company said were created based on insights from Sears Appliances & Mattresses stores, are set to be located in Alaska, Kansas and Louisiana. The company has 205 Kmart locations and 220 Sears stores still in operation. At the same time, the stores will feature a selection of smart home products.

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Bustlingly Busy, Visa’s Vistas Expand

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Visa/Paypal International Focus : The Visa/Paypal relationship is now expanding to the Asia-Pacific region, where a variety of in-store payment methods will be explored, and forthcoming, working with and possibly even helping expand mobile wallet adoption. Hacking, Hacking Everywhere : The venerable Samsung brand may be under attack.

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Excited To Help People

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Central Region Award Recipient. His collection of shot glasses, each bearing a particular state’s name or emblem as tangible evidence of his visits to those states, is complete after a recent trip through the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming and then, lastly, Alaska. One person cannot do it all—there’s just way, way, way too much to do.” —Jim

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How Masabi Makes Public Transit Ticketing Mobile

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“I think it’s the company’s ability to work at scale and its flexibility that’s allowed us to offer the platform to everyone — from agencies the size of the MTA in New York or the MTBA in Boston to much smaller local and regional transit authorities — in an efficient [way],” Donovan explained. A mobile future .

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Building from Scratch

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Since then, she has worked in nearly every operational area to gain firsthand experience, from her first job as a bank teller to her current role today as the founder, chairman and CEO of Summit Bank. She got married to a Navy man and moved with him to Kodiak, Alaska, where she had a son. one piece at a time. So, how did she do it? “If

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