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Bulk Nation And The Frill-Free Customizable Grocery Future

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But Bulk Nation had a radical idea about fixing that problem. “We have more than 3,000 items available on our shelves,” Bulk Nation President Clay Donato noted, “and we mean it when we say customers can buy whatever they want. There is a container, and that’s what the customer buys. You can buy just a pound.

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Here’s How The Opioid Crisis Is Losing Retailers $9B A Year

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Major retailers such as Target, Home Depot, Walmart and Lowe’s have been forced to introduce stricter return, store credit and gift card policies in response to a troubling trend. Smith used drugs for the past decade before starting her recovery journey at Gateway Community Services in Jacksonville, Florida. “As

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Lowe’s Now Offers Prepaid Credit Cards For Construction Crews

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Lowe’s has added a prepaid solution for construction crews, using a platform from Fidelity National Information Services (FIS). Lowe’s new service is built on the BizNow platform, which Jacksonville, Fla.-based Instead, prepaid cards can enable them to deal with fragmented project timelines, employee turnover and other jobsite issues.

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Panera Bread Grows Delivery With Grubhub, DoorDash, Uber Eats Partnerships

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To build on its in-house delivery model, Panera Bread announced national delivery availability for the first time via Grubhub, Uber Eats and DoorDash. Today, through these partnerships, we are pioneering once again by being the first fast casual to launch the ‘bring your own courier’ model nation-wide.”.

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Car Vending Machine Company Carvana Goes Up Against Wall Street

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billion, on an 82 percent increase in retail sales. That is the most organic growth of any automotive retailer ever in the U.S. Miami is Carvana’s 24th car vending machine location to date — joining Nashville, San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Dallas, Raleigh, Jacksonville, Tampa, Charlotte, Washington, D.C., Ontario (L.A.),

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

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Lynn Drysdale, Managing Attorney, Consumer Law Unit, Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc., Jacksonville, FL. Retail Bank, Citibank, New York, NY. Chi Chi Wu, Staff Attorney, National Consumer Law Center, Boston, MA. The new members are as follows: Consumer Advisory Board Members. William Howle, Head of U.S.

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Take Me Out To The (Payments) Ball Game

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We got the inside scoop of what the ballpark of the future might look like from FIS’s Bob Legters, chief product officer of FIS Global Retail Payments, and David Wright, Minor League Baseball’s chief commercial officer — and what brought two such different organizations together to build it. One ball park and customer experience at a time.

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