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

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The new offerings will help associates get training to fill key healthcare roles across Sam’s Club and Walmart locations, “which includes more than 5,000 retail pharmacies, 3,000 vision centers and 400 hearing centers, as well as the new Walmart Health center in Georgia.” (As In Other Brick-and-Mortar News. billion to $43.6

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Bitcoin Daily: Argentina's Crypto Exchanges See Record Growth In 2020; JD.com Sees 20,000 Digital Yuan Transactions In 24 Hours

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I’ve been with the exchange pretty much from the beginning, and I’ve never seen this kind of growth," said Chief Brand Officer Juan Mendez , according to CoinDesk. This is bigger than the 2017 spike on operations and on demand.". has surpassed 5,000 locations.

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Swiftly Raises $15.6M To Help Grocers Compete With Walmart, Amazon

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The company also announced a brand new “operating system for brick and mortar stores.” The OS is live now in stores in Georgia and California, and it’s going to be rolled out across the country very soon. Zion Market, a grocery company that has stores in Texas, California and Georgia, has already signed up for Swiftly services.

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Can Atari Turn Nostalgia Into New Hotel And Gaming Success?

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Will future generations perhaps end up associating the Atari brand with hotels? When creating this brand-new hotel concept, we knew that Atari would be the perfect way to give guests the ‘nostalgic and retro meets modern’ look and feel we were going for,” said Smith. One example of those forces came recently from Georgia.

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Grocery Round-Up: SNAP’s Delivery Expansion, Amazon’s No Charge Pick-ups And The Store Building Binge

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The initiative will start rolling out over the next several weeks in Aldi’s 60 Georgia locations. According to Instacart’s announcement of the program, in Georgia food insecurity affects 12.5 percent of the population. Whole Foods’ New One-Hour Pickups . for Prime members, according to an announcement by Amazon earlier this week.

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Ford Drops Out of Vehicle Subscriptions, While The Space Continues Acceleration

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The venerable automaker has agreed to sell its own vehicle subscription operation to Fair, a startup in this space. Fair reportedly will buy Ford’s Canvas operation, though terms remain undisclosed. Early this year, it launched KINTO, a company to manage and operate its car subscription service.

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Fast Casual Saladworks Gets Fresh With New Locations And Restaurant Tech

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The 30-year-old QSR brand has plans for aggressive growth in 2017 , and Tripodes will spearhead the effort. Saladworks also plans to plant corporate stores in key markets in Atlanta, Georgia and Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas over the next six to 12 months.