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Amazon Plans Whole Foods Expansions In Closed Sears Stores

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For example, Whole Foods managers went to a site in Utah that used to be a Kmart. Right now, Whole Foods has about 470 stores around the nation – which isn’t much considering the proliferation of Walmart and Kroger stores, but it now has the capital to expand into previously unreachable areas, like Montana.

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Outdoorsy Makes Happy Campers Out Of RV Owners And Renters

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Where travelers and RV owners used to connect online via Craigslist, Outdoorsy now offers a professionally managed, full-service global platform with over 200,000 vehicles in over 4,800 cities and 14 countries. There is no Airbnb in Grand Canyon National Park. “So I say, wait a minute, 2.3 Like Airbnb, Only Different.

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Zions Bancorporation goes live on TCS BaNCS Core Banking software

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Zions Bancorporation is one of the nation’s premier financial services companies with total assets exceeding $65 billion. Zions operates under local management teams and distinct brands in 11 western states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

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Data Dive, Supersize Edition: Warby Parker, Whole Foods And WhatsApp

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WhatsApp Pay began testing its service in that country earlier this year with reports of roughly one million users, processing roughly one million transactions per month, according to people close to the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). The attackers managed to make off with user names and passwords.

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Meal Kit Startup Gobble Hires From Starbucks, Blue Apron

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The meal kit startup, an alternative to visits to grocery stores, has hired Steve Robinson, former head of global logistics and supply chain at Starbucks, and Brian McEvoy, former assistant general manager at meal kit competitor Blue Apron, to lead its scalability efforts.

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Simplification Serves LendingClub Well As It Pushes To Get Back To Profitability

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The firm went public in 2014 and had just managed its first quarter of profitability in early 2016 when scandal rocked the business and it found itself without its found CEO, facing a lot of investor doubt and being investigated by the DoJ. We are very, very clear that we are planning a national bank charter.

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Are Big Changes Coming To The Military Lending Act?

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According to documents procured and reviewed by National Public Radio , it looks like the effort to roll back some of the protections – specifically those sections that are meant to protect military members taking out car loans – are being pushed by the White House itself. .

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