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Walmart Aims To Build Décor, Clothing Business

PYMNTS

Walmart is still at work trying to figure out how to anticipate and adapt to the preferences of shoppers. In December, news surfaced that Walmart was collaborating with autonomous vehicle company Nuro to roll out a new pilot program that will test autonomous grocery delivery in the Houston market.

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How Pharmacies Are Driving Retail Innovation

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A study from The American Journal of Medicine indicates that market pressures in the industry are pulling doctors away from primary care and into sub-specialties. Coincidentally, CVS started its healthcare services rollout in Houston, just like Walgreens. Delivery Programs. That’s not the only area of pharmacy retail innovation.

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5 New Year’s Resolutions For Any Sized Bank That You Must Get Right in 2023

South State Correspondent

While the current growth rate needs to be left to each bank based on their capital cost, market, and risk tolerance, the general guide is that growth should be in the 3% to 5% range for this year. When offering a higher money market or CD rate, the direct damage done to cost of funds is often the least of a bank’s worries.

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Will Medical Services Be Pharmacies’ Secret Weapon?

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A study from The American Journal of Medicine indicates that market pressures in the industry are pulling doctors away from primary care and into sub-specialties. Coincidentally, CVS started its healthcare services rollout in Houston, just like Walgreens. The AAMC noted that primary care will be hit the hardest.

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Millennial’s Matter to Bank Marketing

Long Lasting Ideas

But how do we attract a generation that communicates phone-to-phone and text to text, not face to face? Believe it or not, this is a slice of the market that in some cases has never opened the doors of a bricks-and-mortar branch bank or learned how to write a check. Conservative bankers might dismiss social media. *Set

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Fiverr Launches Program To Make Cities ‘Gig Worker Friendly’

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For example, Houston may lag behind San Francisco and New York City in terms of what freelancers can earn, but the southern city has still proven attractive due to its cost of living and, yes, the availability of broadband. This correlation was revealed through Fiverr and Rockbridge’s recent analysis of the Census Bureau data.

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FinCEN reissues real estate Geographic Targeting Orders

Abrigo

Real estate lending BSA training should include GTO guidance , specifically on how to identify red flags at loan origination. At the end of 2021, the Biden administration announced that they would pay closer attention to corruption in the real estate market, with a special focus on all-cash commercial and residential real estate transactions.