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Carvana And Its Discontents

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cities: Tempe (Arizona), Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Nashville (Tennessee), Raleigh (North Carolina), Charlotte (North Carolina), Jacksonville (Florida), Tampa (Florida), Orlando (Florida) and Washington, D.C. The customer experience with Carvana is a bit mixed.

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Hurricane Florence’s Retail Punch

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Though not expected to be as damaging as the hurricane run that ripped through Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico last year, Hurricane Florence is expected to deal $700 million worth of net negative impact on the U.S. A bad one — bad enough, in fact, to be this week’s biggest fizzle.

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How Retailers Tap Into Automation For Cashierless Checkout, Fulfillment

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According to reports at the time, the two companies had broken ground on what has been dubbed America’s second “customer fulfillment center” (CFC), located in Florida. Kroger and SoftBank -backed robotics company Nuro, for instance, announced the launch of their autonomous grocery delivery service in Houston in March.

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