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Walgreens Teams With VillageMD To Offer In-Store Health Clinics

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healthcare system in upheaval from the COVID-19 pandemic. Walgreens Boots Alliance is the holding company for the pharmacy chain. Walgreens said the move follows “a highly successful trial begun last year” with five in-store clinics in the Houston, Texas, area. The move comes against the backdrop of an U.S. In the U.S.,

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Car Vending Machine Company Carvana Goes Up Against Wall Street

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Wall Street is a tough master, especially for eCommerce companies. To pick up a Carvana-purchased vehicle, the customer drops a customized “coin” into the slot, which activates the eight-story vehicle delivery system. Just ask Carvana, the leading online automotive seller and a major force in changing the way people buy cars.

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Walmart Focuses On Supercenters As Strategy To Take On Amazon

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That is a quicker system than sending information to the cloud.) The system could be rented out with new demand from self-driving vehicles as well as other systems that may tap into technology to quickly sift through significant amounts of information.

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Why Brick-And-Mortar Merchants Are Tapping Into Unattended Retail

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and SoftBank -backed robotics firm Nuro recently announced the rollout of their autonomous grocery delivery service in Houston. The companies said the service will be available via two Kroger stores in the Houston area and reach customers residing in four local zip codes. In the U.S.,

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Buying into AML risks in real estate

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The limited regulation around the real estate industry has made it especially easy for these bad actors to cycle their dirty money into the financial system using this avenue. Financial criminals have used the industry to clean their illicit funds for years. Few changes have been made in the regulatory environment in almost 20 years. Ever

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How Faster Disbursements Can Help Solve Patients? Payment Pain Points

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The United States healthcare system is notorious for burdening patients with hefty expenses — a reality that existed long before the COVID-19 pandemic turned a national spotlight onto the issue. Patients with rare conditions can be confronted with costs of up to $2.1

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Juul Starts Tracking Program For Devices To Combat Use By Minors

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Juul Labs, the company that makes the popular vaporizer, has announced a new program to track its devices and figure out how they get into the hands of minors, according to a report by TechCrunch. Recently, the company gained the ability to track the serial numbers from the making of the Juul all the way to where it was sold.

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