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CHRISTIAN SMALLS, FIRED AMZN WAREHOUSE WORKER, FILES RACE DISCRIMATION LAWSUIT. “Amazon failed to provide…adequate protective equipment,” gave minority workers “inferior terms & conditions of employment”

DUE TO THE SURGE IN CORONA CASES, WMT IS LIMITING SHOPPERS TO 5 PER 1,000 SF. A 125,000 sf superstore can have 625 shoppers at

AMAZON RECENTLY ANNOUNCED FREE 1 HOUR GROCERY PICK UP FOR PRIME MEMBER ORDERS > $35 AT ALL WHOLE FOODS. Now they’re offering free Key in-garage

AFTER BEING REJECTED BY THE DEERFIELD, MA PLANNING BOARD, DOLLAR GENERAL APPEALS TO THE ZBA and gets a warm reception. The town has a 4,000

WILL TRUMP ALLOW ORACLE & WALMART TO INVEST IN TIK TOK? The deadline to ban Tik Tok Nov. 12 was blocked by the courts. India

AMAZON ACCUSED OF BREAKING ANTITRUST RULES IN EUROPE. “Data of 3rd-party sellers should not be used to the benefit of Amazon…as a competitor to these

WALMART PET CARE NOW SELLING PET INSURANCE. My 3 year old mixed breed cat would cost $242/yr. + a $350 deductible. Walmart insurance. I wouldn’t

WALMART’S GOING TO THE DOGS. 90 M OF ITS CUSTOMERS HAVE DOGS. You’d be Goofy not to hire a local dog-sitter instead of Walmart’s pet

WALMART CASHIERS STILL LOOKING FOR A SEAT. They won a $65 M lawsuit in 2019, but Walmart failed to provide cashiers with seats. Walmart “never

4 DAYS BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION,THE CO-FOUNDER OF HOME DEPOT SAID: “President Trump has stared down Covid 19…If re-elected, he will quickly end this COVID

INFO TECH SECURITY WORKERS AT BIG COMPANIES LIKE WORKING AT HOME—& WANT TO KEEP DOING IT AFTER COVID IS GONE. 50% of IT workers surveyed

DOLLAR GENERAL REFUSES TO TAKE ‘NO’ FROM SMALL MA. TOWN. 10 years ago Deerfield voted to cap the size of retail buildings at 4,000 sf.

AMAZON ADDS 138 ACRES NEAR FT. WAYNE IN. AIRPORT TO BUILD 629,186 SF WAREHOUSE, 2 miles from its 150,000 sf delivery station. County officials expect

AMAZON FLEX DRIVERS EARN PERKS BASED ON RATINGS. “If you have a ‘Fantastic’ standing, you earn three points per delivery and 30 per block.” Hamsters

NOW THAT GIG DRIVERS FOR UBER, LYFT, DOORDASH & INSTACART CAN’T BE TREATED AS EMPLOYEES, it’s time to pass the federal GIG IS UP ACT.

VERMONT OFFICIALS SAY WALMART HAS NOT YET APPLIED FOR THE STATE’S HAZARD PAY PROGRAM, which gives bonuses of $1,200 or $2,000 to frontline retail workers.

SINCE 1980, REPUBLICANS HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT THE DANGER OF A LARGE VOTER TURNOUT: “I don’t want everybody to vote,” Paul Weyrich, conservative activist said. “As

I AM PROUD TODAY TO FLY THIS OLD FLAG, WITH ITS 48 STARS, IN HONOR OF ALL WHO WORKED TO OVERCOME MENDACITY, RACISM, HATRED OF

MARCH 30, 2020: “[Democrats] had….levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.” Trump

WALMART EXITS ARGENTINA WITH A $1 B LOSS. A long string of International failures: Germany, So.Korea, Brazil, Japan, Britain & Argentina. Forbes says WMT is

BIDEN LEADS TRUMP FOR THE WHITE HOUSE—but Trump is selling more bling than Biden on Amazon. In last month, 2M Trump product searches v. 800K

TIK TOK IS IN COURT TO STOP TRUMP FROM SHUTTING DOWN THE APP. ON NOV 12. Govt. wants ByteDance to sign a deal with Oracle

AMERICAN TECH COMPANIES LIKE GOOGLE, WALMART, FACEBOOK & AMAZON ARE SWARMING OVER INDIA’S MOBILE PAYMENT MARKET. Large banks in India are giving consumers debit cards

WALMART WORKERS 1, ROBOTS 0. Walmart is ending its 3 year use of Bossa Nova robots to scan shelves for restocking. Instead, Walmart workers called

UBER & LYFT BOUGHT THE RIGHT TO EXPLOIT DRIVERS BY NOT CLASSIFYING THEM AS EMPLOYEES IN CA. This “opens a path for the companies to

WORKERS AT AMZN STATEN-ISLAND WAREHOUSE sued the company for failing to stop the spread of the coronavirus, creating unsafe working conditions,& concealing who has contracted

UBER, LYFT, DOORDASH, INSTACART SPENT $203M TO WIN PROP 22 IN CA. LAST NIGHT, MAKING APP-BASED DRIVERS CONTRACTORS NOT EMPLOYEES. Overturns state law & court

31% OF CONSUMERS’ PAYCHECK GOES TO RETAIL: 18% furnishings, electronics, clothing & sporting goods; 8% food, beverages; 5% health & beauty care. AMZN is beating

I’M NOT VOTING TOMORROW—- because I voted weeks ago. I had 228,767 covid reasons to vote against Trump. White Sharks are known as “Apex Predators,”because

WALMART TESTS FUTURE TECH AT 4 STORES to serve store shoppers & “flex” to be fulfillment centers for online shoppers. Their “contact-free checkout experience” Amazon

COVID HAS CREATED A WINDFALL FOR AMAZON—but analyst says “Amazon is losing control of the customer experience…(which) is going downhill…it’s more efficient to go directly

AMZN WILL LIKELY BE THE FIRST COMPANY TO GENERATE $1 T IN ANNUAL REVENUES…by 2030. With Amazon, we get a unique business mix…consumer staples to

WALMART TELLS TIME MAG: “We simply won’t be here if we don’t take care of the very things that allow us to exist: our associates,

AFTER 1 DAY WALMART REVERSES PLAN TO REMOVE GUN DISPLAYS. Because of “isolated civil unrest…we have moved our firearms & ammunition off the sales floor…for

AMZN HAS INVESTED $6 B IN INDIA, & IS TRYING TO STOP INDIA’S RICHEST MAN FROM BUYING A RETAILER AMZN WANTS. But today, India “contributes

3RD PARTY RETAIL SELLER SAYS AMAZON DESTROYED $800,000 OF HIS FASHION INVENTORY THAT AMZN SAID WAS FAKE. “Amazon ruined my life, and I did nothing

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WARNING TO SANTA: AS MORE SHOPPERS BUY ONLINE “there’s growing concern around the potential for ‘SHIPPAGEDDON‘, where high package volumes overwhelm logistics capacity & result

OVERALL RETAIL HOLIDAY SALES FOR THE NEXT 60 DAYS WILL TOP $1 T. Brick & Mortar sales will drop, but still make up 81% of

ELDERLY MAN IN NORTHFIELD LOOKING TO HIRE A PERSONAL CARE ATTENDANT FOR MORNING WORK, 3 HOURS PER DAY, up to 5 days (M,TH,F.S,S) He has

NEARLY 8,00O RETAIL STORES WILL CLOSE THIS YEAR. Brick & mortar sales may drop 4.7% this holiday, while ecommerce will jump 35.8%. The retail apocalypse

IF CONGRESS EXTENDED THE $600/WK. UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT, IT WOULD MEAN AN ANNUAL INCREASE OF $508 M IN INCOME & CREATE 5 M JOBS. But Republicans

OVER THE LAST 60 YEARS as Social Security payments rose, senior poverty declined. We’ve reduced elder poverty from 5% in 1960 to 1% today, with

AMAZON EMPLOYEES FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE WANT PAID TIME OFF TO VOTE. On Halloween, they plan to shut down AMZN warehouses for 15 minutes or longer.

HOME DEPOT CO-FOUNDER BERNIE MARCUS IS ONE OF TRUMP’S BIGGEST DONORS. BUT CO-FOUNDER ARTHUR BLANK GIVES TO BIDEN. “The gap between the haves & the

CHIK-fil-A, WHICH DONATED TO ANTI-LGBTQ CAUSES, will soon be selling its sauces at Walmart, Publix & Kroger. Another great reason to boycott these retailers. https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2020/10/22/chik-fil-a-sauces-will-soon-be-available-at-walmart-and-other-stores/24659377/

NBC‘s SHOP TODAY LOOKS LIKE A “NEWS” STORY—but fine print says “If you purchase something through our links, we may earn a commission.” NBC says

WALMART PHARMACISTS “HELP PATIENTS UNDERSTAND THE RISKS ABT. OPIOID Rx, & have refused to fill hundreds of thousands of opioid prescriptions they thought could be