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JD Sports Purchases California-Based Shoe Palace

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The chain currently has 167 retail locations, most of them operating under the Shoe Palace flag. More than 50 percent of the retail locations are in California, but the retailer has an “established retail presence” in Hawaii, New Mexico, Colorado, Florida, Arizona, Nevada and Texas.

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Sam’s Club Suddenly Closes 63 Stores

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But the membership-only retailer said it had closed the stores following a “review,” according to news from Reuters. After a thorough review of our existing portfolio, we’ve decided to close a series of clubs and better align our locations with our strategy,” the retailer wrote in a tweet. Walmart’s shares rose 0.5

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Digital License Plates Vie For Place In Connected Car Ecosystem

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Besides California, states such as Arizona, Texas and Florida are moving toward use of digital license plates. In a recent PYMNTS interview , she said the ecosystem for connected cars and trucks — and the retail and payment tasks they do and will support — is rapidly taking shape. “We However, progress is happening, and pretty fast.

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Retail’s Ups And Downs: Best Buy, Outlet Malls And Pokémon GO

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The world of retail can be a fickle mistress. With that said, PYMNTS decided to take a look at some of retail’s biggest winners and losers of the moment. With wages, taxes and energy costs about 25 percent less in Phoenix than in the Bay Area, the city has seen an 8 percent increase in tech jobs in the past year alone.

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The Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: The Delivery Edition 

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Amazon said it is taking the space in the property, which is being redeveloped, without any of the special tax credits it had been offered previously. The Nuro pilot is now Walmart’s second of the kind; the first was with Udelv to test autonomous grocery deliveries in Arizona.

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Deep Dive: Wayfair’s Complex, Ongoing And Unexpected Effects On Retailers

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Wayfair’s case enabled cities and states to pass economic nexus laws that require out-of-state sellers to collect and remit taxes on local residents’ sales, and it permitted these jurisdictions to implement marketplace facilitator laws necessitating that eCommerce platforms collect and remit taxes on third-party merchants’ sales. .

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The eCommerce Bachelor: Which City Will Get The Rose?

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Others are offering standard fare such as tax credits — although even that can’t be viewed as “standard” in this race. New Jersey, for instance, is offering more than the price of Amazon’s investment in tax credits, to the tune of $7 billion, if the company puts HQ2 in Newark. Tucson, Arizona.