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Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: Physical Footprints, Grocery Gains

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That changed on the 11th day of the month that year, when the first internet purchase in history was made by a Philadelphia resident with a Visa card. BofA economists came up with their predictions based on Bank of America credit card data, which showed spending rose by 0.8 Stores on the March: Seattle, Boston and Nashville .

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Retail’s Small Business Crisis

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Brookings reports that the 100 largest metro areas in the U.S. The percentage of sales lost by those physical store franchises can be seen not only in the pretty charts and graphs that we produce and share on a regular basis but the ongoing drumbeat of the national and regional store closings for those brands that can no longer keep up.

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