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MAY 26, 2020

A major Pew study found that as of 2018, millennials with college degrees and full-time jobs were earning roughly what Generation Xers made in 2001. bartenders, half of restaurant workers and a large share of retail workers. According to recent reports , millennials make up the majority of U.S.

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JULY 2, 2019

One of the biggest stories in retail continues to be Uber’s effort to move well beyond its core offering of automotive ridesharing. Bike and scooter sharing are expanding to more cities as mobility-as-a-service retail offerings continue to grow. and San Diego, Calif.”. Uber and Lime officially partnered about a year ago.

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APRIL 22, 2016

FinTech companies have been doing a good job of eating into banks’ turf, and yet it is the banks that are seemingly watching without really acting as quickly as they might or should. The affordability goes beyond the price tag. Think big” says CapGemini, but that exhortation rings out with little response.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

Given the “Amazon effect” that has blown through retail like a cold wind over the last decade or so, many speculated that the Kohl’s attempt to boost foot traffic was about to go down in history as inviting the fox to guard the henhouse. “This is the quintessential Kohl’s shopper we want to see in the future,” she said.

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MARCH 29, 2016

When it comes to retailers dissuading theft from external sources, consumers, more or less, expect such attempts to be highly visible — or, at least, they aren’t bothered when they are. By that same token, however, is it as reasonable for a retailer to treat its own employees with, more or less, that same, highly visible lack of trust?

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The world is full of people who want to look nice but don’t have the kind of enthusiasm (or time) for retail commerce that would keep them hitting the malls. For that world of emerging high-style, low-energy, low-time shoppers, there is StichFix : an online fashion retailer that comes with a built-in personal shopper.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Although the $1,000 price tag was anticipated and expected, it was nearly universally commented upon, as it officially makes Apple the price leader in its category (by about $50, as the latest and greatest from Samsung clocks in with a $950 price tag). Apple Retail: Embracing The Town Square. The iPhone X: The Big Idea.

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MAY 30, 2017

Also, Muzak garnered a $345 million price tag for a reason – which is that Muzak got very good at matching the background music to the commerce experience. “This concept has been around for decades in brick-and-mortar retail – powering music in restaurants and stores. ” And that, Yasuda notes, allows Feed.FM

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JULY 25, 2018

But the price tag on it is a cool $2,000 (on sale), and so for whatever wonders it is capable of as cutlery, the market for it is fairly narrow. What customers actually need, according to Byun, is fewer tools that do more jobs and work a lot better. It even comes in a collector’s box.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Details are scant about what that shop might look like, but what is known as of earlier this week is that Amazon has posted job listings for four new positions connected to the forthcoming store, it will be a separate entity from Whole Foods and it won’t use Amazon’s cashierless Go technology in favor of traditional checkout methods.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

However, recent job listings suggest that more coverages may soon become available – and, at the very least, that rough sailing is ahead for traditional insurers in the market. Facebook filed a patent application that may suggest the social media giant plans to power real-world retail payments through facial recognition technology.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Going clean and green is just about everyone’s favorite marketing tag line these days. And, Shaich noted, the recipe is now only half the battle, because Panera isn’t making soup for its family after a hard day — Panera is making soup for everyone’s family after a hard day at 2,000 retail locations nationwide.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

And I remember my first job was a summer job and I took over for my older sister, who was 21 at the time, and I was, I don’t know, 15 or 16, and he was paying her $5 an hour, and he was paying me $2.50 ” And he said, “Well, you can always get a job somewhere else.” We were 75% retail.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

From Alfred Sloan at General Motors to Jack Welch at General Electric to Steve Jobs at Apple, there is a history of CEOs being tagged as superstars (and indispensable to the organizations that they head), in successful companies.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

And did you say one more time that your job is to lend people like me to be an entrepreneur of money? So, one, I was shocked that there was an industry whose job it was to lend a risk taker money. My mother is in an hourly job at McDonnell Douglas Aircraft. He says “it’s the worst job I got.” RITHOLTZ: Right.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

A survey released by Intuit this week found that SMB accountants say the top challenges to being able to do their jobs include small businesses failing to adequately keep records, not using accounting software and not staying on top of bills. Small business accountants have a bone to pick with their clients. Actually, they have a few.

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MARCH 27, 2019

Highly praised though it is by the rich and the famous, the brand is not exactly well known for having the most accessible price tag on the market. That customer fit comes care of a very long research period in developing the firm’s signature shirt stylings. We just do,” she said. “It

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NOVEMBER 4, 2017

Undeterred by the steep price tag, hundreds and even thousands of walk-in customers queued up outside Apple stores hours, days, and in some cases, months before the new device hit shelves. There’s nothing like a touch of tradition to go along with the thrill of innovation. Like waiting in line to be the first to get experience it.

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AUGUST 21, 2016

Add to that list: it’s a 24/7/365 job with, it seems, no summer vacations. Week-in and week-out this summer, we’ve seen another nationally known retailer or brand get hit by hackers. And hotels weren’t alone — retail outfitter for outdoor adventures Eddie Bauer also got tagged in a breach last week. and Canada.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Given its hefty price tag and IT requirements, the technology was installed in conference or board rooms and not individual offices. More than 400 golf brands and manufacturers convened online last week to see — and buy, using B2B payments tech — the latest and greatest golf goodies for their clubs and retail stores.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

You guys did a nice job, and that was, I don’t know, 12 years ago? RITHOLTZ: And so really, you’re saying he couldn’t keep a job, constantly looking for a new gig. RITHOLTZ: The Bureau of Business Prevention is how the retail brokers used to describe compliance. We retained your firm. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Can I just tag along? But even in his like own company, the reason there’s chaos in his company, he, I would tell you there are reasons we don’t have job titles and we have no organization chart and there’s no list of employees and nobody knows who’s supposed to be doing what. What could go wrong?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

And then within LVMH, I moved to Tag Heuer, which is a pure watch business — RITHOLTZ: Right. It was really kind of in the Tag Heuer timeline for me, career-wise, that I became aware of Ben and of Hodinkee. And then he proceeded to say, “Hodinkee is the greatest watch retailer on the planet. RITHOLTZ: Let’s see.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

There were also a lot of econometricians here, and I was sort of into, my first job as a professor was a professor of econometrics at Bristol. How do you translate that into a job at Princeton when you’re working at Cambridge or, or Bristol? It’s just that the textbook model doesn’t do a very good job.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You know, it was the early nineties and, you know, it was hard to find, you know, jobs. So, you know, after I, I, so what I did was I was looking around for finance jobs, and obviously you’re not gonna hire, you know, a pre-med bio major, an English writing major. Who, who else in the business do you think does a, a nice job?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

LINDZON: So first year at ’01, ‘02, you have Apple and they blew out the store model, the retail model, which no one thought. ” LINDZON: So that was my first real job, but I needed to do a job to stay in the United States. You know, I’m just a retail Yahoo finance kind of guy. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We dive deep into all sorts of things about running businesses, managing risk, and then when we began talking about his public sector service, we went deep into the Tax Cuts and Job Act of 2017. So I went out and tried to find a job locally. Yeah, I, I, I think I told him, I, I, I said, I think I told him you’re looking at it.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And we literally talk about during the show, I got a tag to present to the SEC, about their new single stock product. We’re in the business of sitting in between asset owners, financial advisors, institutions, retail and asset managers, right, the BlackRock, State Street, PIMCO’s of the world, and helping them understand each other.

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MAY 18, 2020

They justify the massive price tag by citing the coronavirus pandemic’s unprecedented scope and economic effects, arguing that combating them requires “bold action.”. April retail sales last month plummeted roughly 17 percent from the prior month and 21 percent year on year. For instance, the Census Bureau recently reported that U.S.

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