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Midwest Retailer Meijer Signs With Instacart For Grocery Delivery

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Online delivery platform Instacart is teaming up with regional Midwest retailer Meijer to provide same-day delivery of groceries. Customers rely on Instacart to get the groceries and goods they need from the retailers they love," Instacart President Nilam Ganenthiran said in a Thursday (Dec. 3) press release. and Canada.

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How Healthy Are Hoosier State Storefronts?

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In a normal year, Indiana just isn’t a major player in the primary season, because, generally speaking, by early May everything is usually wrapped up except for the official vote count and the balloon drop. Sure, Hoosier is a slang term for a person from Indiana — everyone knows that — but why is that the case?

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Kroger’s Private-Label Grocery War Advantage?

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Even so, the retailer missed Wall Street’s quarterly same-store estimates as it contended with strong competition from Amazon and Walmart.). By comparison, Walmart outsourced the production of its private-label brands before recently opening an Indiana dairy. Omnichannel Retail. customer fulfillment centers.)

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And Then There Were 20 — The Amazon HQ2 Finalists

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Indianapolis, Indiana. When Amazon came to Seattle, Washington, it changed the region through a boom in development to keep up with growth in employees and higher rent prices. But only one can be selected, and the top 20 from which the elect will be chosen include: Atlanta, Georgia. Austin, Texas. Boston, Massachusetts. Columbus, Ohio.

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Verizon 5G Network Launch Foreshadows Mobile Commerce Changes

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The announcement from the mobile network provider serves as the latest demonstration that 5G is coming, and that retailers and payment services providers should get ready to operate in the 5G world. 5G Potential.

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Autopsy Report: 9 Startup Failure Stories And What We Can Learn From Them

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But despite the popularity of its sock puppet mascot, the online pet supplies retailer went out of business just 9 months after its Super Bowl ad, doomed by an untenable business model and the bursting of the dot-com bubble. With lower costs and a bigger market to sell to, a new crop of online pet supplies retailers eventually emerged.

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