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Forever 21 Stores Hacked

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Fashion retailer Forever 21 revealed that it has suffered a data breach at some of its stores. According to news from Fortune , customer payment card information was compromised at certain point of sale devices in stores when the encryption on those devices was not operating.

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NYS Covers Grocery Worker Vaccine Eligibility; Instacart Leads Debate Over Gig Economy Employees

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For grocery workers, who are deemed in the “essential” retail category, relief has been slow in coming. Gig workers, according to the data, are majority millennials and bridge millennials, though that is shifting as the gig economy becomes more popular among demographic sets and Generation Z consumers are increasingly coming of age.

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Bitcoin Tracker: Easy Access Is ‘Easier’ With ATMS & Gift Cards

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Coinsource, America’s largest bitcoin ATM provider, just announced proudly that the company now has 55 ATM kiosks, after adding six new ones in California — four in Los Angeles and two in San Francisco. What about gift cards? Turns out, former Amazon executive Gene Kavner’s already on the bitcoin gift card ball.

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Reseller Market Maintains Momentum With Nordstrom’s Entry

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Customers participate through a customer intake program in the Nordstrom New York City store in exchange for Nordstrom gift cards that can be spent at its signature brands as well as its owned brands HauteLook and Trunk Club. It is playing the sustainability card this year, with Fashion Footprint Calculator. It says some 57.5

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Retail’s Ups And Downs: Amazon Pop-Ups, John Lennon And The iPhone 7

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Here are some of the other big winners and losers of the retail game at the moment. Wells Fargo settled the investigation, which was sparked by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Los Angeles prosecutor, last week by agreeing to pay a fine of $185 million.

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Subscriptions As The Ticket To Filling Empty Airplane Seats

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SkyHi’s bread and butter is leisure travelers, particularly millennials between the ages of 23 and 27. He has also considered offering tickets for longer distances — say, Los Angeles to New York — and wants to encourage “a world where people do have more travel in their life and it’s super easy.”.

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The Week In Payments: China, China, Challenger Banks And Bitcoin

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For Chinese consumers, the partnership will allow any UnionPay consumer to link their card credentials to a PayPal wallet — and start transactions with PayPal’s 24 million merchants worldwide. That is a lot more than the card networks have right now.”. market with limited trialing of its services in Los Angeles: to date, it reports 3.7

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