This past winter, Staples began planning for the 2020 school year much as it always has: by ordering pallets of backpacks, notebooks, and pencils, and scheduling block parties in its parking lots. The slogan the company had planned for the academic year was both upbeat and reassuring: "Back to Awesome."
But there will be no back to awesome this year. As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches into the start of a new school calendar, parents are struggling to both educate their children and keep them safe. And Staples has been scrambling in its effort to serve them.
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LA County Barbershops, Indoor Shopping Centers To Remain Closed Despite New State Guidelines
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Non-essential indoor operations at hair salons, shopping malls, and other businesses in Los Angeles County will not reopen next week, despite the state’s new guidelines that allow them to do so.
Under the system, county non-essential indoor business operations are closed if there are more than 7 daily new cases per 100,000. County risk drops to “substantial” when there are between 4 to 7 daily new cases per 100,000, according to the metric.
Shopping isn't fun anymore. Here's how retailers can respond.
This report, Online Personalization in Ecommerce, examines how online retailers apply personalization technology and its subset machine learning to respond to challenges, as well as how vendors are developing sophisticated technology to pave the way. These examples aim to help other retailers learn to apply such tools to streamline processes and grow sales.
Westminster's Fairground Village shopping center sells for $4.5 million - Carroll County Times
The Fairground Village shopping center in Westminster has been sold to Kohler Development Company for $4.5 million, according to an announcement from earlier this week.
The center, which is adjacent to Md. 97, includes a number of local businesses, ranging from a medical marijuana shop to a hair salon. It's home to Sergio's restaurant, Starry Night Bakery and Blue Bistro. Currently, the shopping center is 95% leased, according to a news release from Edge, the firm that brokered the sale.
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Tri-Town Fall Fashion Festival helping with back-to-school shopping | St. Lawrence County |
Car wash for shopping carts sanitizes for under a penny per buggy
TAMPA, Fla. - Adam Labadie lost his job in the wake of the pandemic, so he spent the last five-months launching a new business and building a machine to sanitize shopping carts. His invention has now caught the attention of major grocery chains.
Shopping carts are touched a lot. Hundreds of people grab those handles, spreading germs and bacteria.
Since the pandemic hit, cleaning carts has become a full-time job at grocery stores. Labadie thinks it can be done better.
Shopping basket sanitizing machine
Big Lots breaks earnings records as coronavirus spurs discount-shopping | Fox Business
The NPD Group chief retail analyst Marshal Cohen on how retailers are being impacted by the coronavirus, specifically missing out on the back-to-school shopping season.
Big Lots Inc. reported record second-quarter results as discount-seeking shoppers thronged the retailer's stores and website in the wake of COVID-19.
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The Columbus, Ohio-based retailer said sales in the three months through June rose 31% year-over-year to $1.64 billion, outpacing the $1.61 billion that Wall Street analysts surveyed by Refintiv were anticipating.
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