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Tech NewsCommerceEverything Store Becomes Everywhere Store
Ready for Amazon to get even more ubiquitous in your day to day life? The e-commerce giant is planning on opening 1,000 to 1,500 small distribution hubs in suburban areas across the country, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, in part spurred by major delays in shipping during the novel coronavirus pandemic. The e-commerce company saw extensive … Continued
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Tech NewsCommerceAmazon’s Kicking Retailers While They’re Down (Again)
In case you haven’t heard, retail is in trouble. Aside from the hundreds of clothing stores that have permanently shuttered after the coronavirus brought shopping to a screeching halt, we’ve also spent the past year watching the slower (though no less tragic) decline of mall staples like Macy’s and JC Penney , not to mention … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityYeah, So It Turns Out Rite Aid Has Been Using Face Recognition at Hundreds of Stores
Rite Aid used face recognition to scan the faces of every single customer who walked into hundreds of its stores in a program encompassing most of the past decade, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The program spanned eight years, two vendors, and was implemented in 200 stores—a disproportionate number of which were located in non-white, low-income … Continued
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Tech NewsReport: Apple Likely Won’t Reopen in Full Until 2021, Many Retail Staff Asked to Switch to Online Roles
With over 90 of Apple’s 271 outlets across the U.S. closed down once again due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, the company is asking retail staff who are unable to show up to a physical location to instead work from home, according to a Monday report in Bloomberg. Apple reportedly also expects that its plan … Continued
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Tech NewsApple Is Reopening 25 Stores in the U.S.—With Some New Rules
After closing all of its U.S. retail stores on March 13 due to covid-19, Apple will begin reopening Apple stores in North America this week, starting with four dozen locations in the U.S. in Canada. But for those who have been waiting to get their Apple device serviced or pick up something new to bolster … Continued
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Tech NewsBest Buy Shifts Services Curbside, Suspends Home Installations and Repairs
As of today, Best Buy is restricting access for all U.S. stores solely to employees and switching over to “contactless” curbside service for customer pick-ups, exchanges, and returns in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Best Buy CEO Corie Barry called the situation “unprecedented” in a company statement issued this weekend. “We are making the … Continued
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Tech NewsCommerceAmazon Will Sell Its Cashless Go Technology to Brick-and-Mortar Retailers
Amazon and its intrepid CEO, Jeff Bezos, haven’t made any secret of their push to dominate other industries. Space travel? Sure! Healthcare? Why not? Real estate? I… guess? Now, it looks like the trillion-dollar company is setting its sights on courting a new market: the brick-and-mortar retailers that Amazon has systematically gutted for roughly a … Continued
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Tech NewsSay Goodbye to Every Bose Store in the U.S.
If you’ve been planning to buy or return something to a nearby Bose store, you might want to do it soon because the well-known audio equipment maker is about to close 119 stores, including every retail location in the U.S. According to Bose, the reason for the closings is due to a rise in online … Continued
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Tech NewsTech PolicySupreme Court Lets Lawsuit Claiming Domino’s Website Violates Americans With Disabilities Act Proceed
The Supreme Court declined to give Domino’s Pizza Inc. an out from a lawsuit arguing that its website is inaccessible to people with blindness, denying a petition on Monday that could have allowed the company to evade facing the plaintiff in court. Per Bloomberg Law, a prior ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for … Continued
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