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Amazon Plans Whole Foods Expansions In Closed Sears Stores

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The recent woes of Sears and other struggling retailers are seen as an opportunity for the online retail giant. Right now, Whole Foods has about 470 stores around the nation – which isn’t much considering the proliferation of Walmart and Kroger stores, but it now has the capital to expand into previously unreachable areas, like Montana.

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Pomelo’s Fast Fashion, Affordable Pricing And Global Ambitions

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Millions of people, he noted — from Tulsa to Tibet, given how connected the world is these days — who are all united by a search for what’s next in forward-looking fashion. Pomelo’s global construction effort got a big boost this week following a $19 million investment round co-lead by Alibaba rival JD.com and Indonesia’s Provident Capital.

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Amazon Sheds $35B In Four Days Of “Trump” Tech Crash

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“Technology provides the productivity gains for the global economy and many of the large-cap names like Apple and Amazon were carrying the torch for the market,” Channing Smith, a managing director at Capital Advisors Inc. in Tulsa, Oklahoma, said by phone. The firm oversees about $1.8

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