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Amazon Plans Whole Foods Expansions In Closed Sears Stores

PYMNTS

For example, Whole Foods managers went to a site in Utah that used to be a Kmart. Neil Saunders, managing director of retail at GlobalData, said Amazon is smart to secure former retail spaces, and that landlords are open to grocery stores because they help drive foot traffic. Sources told Yahoo!

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Pomelo’s Fast Fashion, Affordable Pricing And Global Ambitions

PYMNTS

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. In Thailand, for example, the brand is trying out offline commerce. Some day soon, Pomelo might be looking to be a player in the U.S. and European markets.

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Entering the cannabis banking market

Independent Banker

When Oklahoma legalized the sales of cannabis for medicinal purposes in 2018, executives of $550 million-asset Blue Sky Bank in Tulsa, Okla., which began banking CRBs in 2014, the regulatory requirements align with standard Bank Security Act (BSA) requirements. We can upload docs securely. By Judith Sears.

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