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The Home Depot Ramps Up Distribution To Meet Demand From Remodelers

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4) that it is moving quickly to open three new distribution centers in Georgia over the next 18 months. Retail has changed more in the past four years than in our company’s 40-year history. The largest of the three new Georgia operations, according to Home Depot, is a 657,000-square-foot distribution center in Locust Grove.

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

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Brick-and-mortar retailers are expanding their efforts to provide customers with health and wellness services while taking steps to train their employees for healthcare roles. said in the announcement about the offering, “Walmart aims to be the market leader in providing retail workers a path to careers in growing fields like healthcare.

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Apple To Shutter 30 More US Stores Again Amid Pandemic

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The tech company, which has 271 retail shops in the United States, has recently closed 47 stores again, CNBC reported. Locations in California, Alabama, Idaho, Georgia, Oklahoma, Nevada and Louisiana are set to shutter on Thursday, while shops in Mississippi, Texas, Florida and Utah were shuttered as of Wednesday (July 1).

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Pandemic Converts Telemedicine Skeptics Into Users

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David Goldhill , the CEO of healthcare marketplace operator Sesame , recently told Karen Webster that of all of medicine’s systemic flaws that the pandemic has exposed, none are more apparent than the shortcomings of the current business model. Cost-Saving Is Promoting Adoption As Well .

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Amazon’s Next Warehouse Will Specialize In Large Items

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One of those places is just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, though what’s stored inside won’t be hard to spot. Amazon announced on Wednesday (June 22) that it had finalized plans to open a new fulfillment center in Braselton, Georgia.

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Can fintechs enhance your bank’s marketing campaign?

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The digital world has opened vastly broader avenues for community banks to attract new customers—especially if they partner with fintechs in their endeavors. Fintechs know how to reach and work with the community. Coconut Software in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, is one fintech solving this problem for community banks.

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B2B FinTechs Start 2020 Strong With More Than $1B In VC Funding

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In its oversubscribed series A funding round, OnPay , a Georgia-based payroll software startup, secured $6 million, the company said this week. The firm, based in South Africa, said it will use the funding to scale operations across Southern Africa, the U.S. Flutterwave. million euros (nearly $75 million) in fresh funding for the firm.

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