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Should Las Vegas Casinos Bet On The Tourists Returning?

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Las Vegas casinos shut their doors in mid-March in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, sending Nevada’s unemployment rate to a worst-in-the-nation 28.2 I’m starting to get nervous that shows are never going to reopen,” Nina Kane, a dancer and aerialist who has made her career on Vegas stages, told The Wall Street Journal.

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NJ Online Gaming Revenue Set To Grow 66 Pct This Year

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Approximately 20 brands of online casinos are vying on a reportedly small field. In separate news, reports surfaced in September that mobile sports betting is quickly growing to a point where New Jersey is close to topping Las Vegas as the biggest market in the nation.

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Dunkin Earnings Go Light On Digital Acceleration

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The digital shift is coming late to Dunkin’ Brands. We have scaled back our national media spend and paused on launching new potentially complex limited-time offers,” he said on the call. “We Our marketing leadership team continues to create, assess and refine a phased approach for relaunching our brand responsibly at the right time.

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Smart Retailers Inspire Confidence Via Cleanliness

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The list of positive retail brand attributes goes on and on, but one new post-pandemic value has become more important than all the others: cleanliness. Contrast that with the photos of bargain hunters fighting outside Ross Dress for Less in Las Vegas, or the hordes of shoppers picking apart bargain bins at TJ Maxx.

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Jack In The Box And DoorDash Expand Delivery Partnership

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including Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle and Las Vegas, among a number of others. The Jack in the Box partnership is the latest of DoorDash’s moves to grow its food delivery services for major restaurant brands. The two plan to continue expanding their delivery options to more cities and markets throughout 2017.

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Walmart-Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: Connected Commerce, Grocery Bot And GrubHub Rumors

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Amazon was particularly busy as it spent much of the week at CES in Las Vegas pushing the power of its expanding connected commerce ecosystem. It was one of a series of expansion announcements for Alexa out of CES in Las Vegas this week. The effort died quietly within a year.

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What’s Good For Veterans Can Be Very Good For Businesses

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It started in the early 1980s: The nation began to repent for what was commonly viewed as the shabby treatment of Vietnam War veterans. of some 6,300 military veterans and 2,000 active service members, 95 percent of those surveyed “perceive brands [that] offer military discounts as patriotic and/or caring about veterans.” No Cynicism.

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