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Saving Main Street: Cities Pick Up The Recovery Role

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For example, Seattle announced that it will allow eligible businesses to defer business and occupation taxes and expand its Small Business Stabilization Fund. Boulder, Colorado has been working on strategies to help downtown retailers since before the coronavirus crisis. Several examples have shown up over the past week.

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Cannabis Dispensary SaaS Provider Baker Technologies Raises $3.5M

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When Baker Technologies cofounder and CEO Joel Milton looked at the growing recreational cannabis industry in Colorado, one of the first things he noticed were long lines. The founders studied how the Colorado cannabis market grew. Everyone wanted to be a customer-facing brand that people recognized,” Milton said. “So

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Whole Paycheck Tracker: Accelerating Automation To Capture Consumer Spend

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Amazon’s efforts in robotics upgraded this week with the acquisition of Colorado-based Canvas Technology. Walmart has also expanded its private-label brand offerings in apparel, with Terra & Sky, Wonder Nation and Time and Tru, among others. 2: People in Glass Houses Should Pay Taxes. The Drama Pt.

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Can Legal Pot Thrive With Closed-Loop Payments?

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Among the reasons for that, according to the bill and that analysis, is to make it harder for legal retail marijuana dispensaries to avoid paying local and state taxes — always a major concern for any industry dominated by cash. and Canada.

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Uber of X: greenRush is The Uber of Cannabis

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After it became illegal in the United States through the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, the business of selling cannabis went mostly underground. PW: greenRush has multiple business lines that drive revenue, all of which transform relationships between brands, dispensaries and customers.

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The 25 Most Absurd Job Titles In Tech

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Tax Wrangler. Today at Automattic, the in-house tax wrangler is in charge of “researching multi-state sales and use tax regulations” and working on “sales, property, excise and VAT taxes” for a company of 600+ people. Brand Warrior. The Hamilton Journal-News reported in 2015 that the Colorado-based StarTek Inc.

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Taking Your Coffee With Sugar, Milk And Blockchain?

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Take the clothing and accessories brand TOMS , for instance. If customers at the first locations in Colorado and California respond to Jones’ social commerce as he expects, the company plans to expand sales to larger coffee corporations such as Nestle or Starbucks in the coming years.