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Inside the Apple Store Battle for Union Representation

Apple has hired Littler Mendelson, an employment law firm, to blunt the labor push. It also has furnished store managers with talking points, including that unionizing could result in fewer […]




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Global Brands Seek Clarity on Xinjiang

Ms. Apter said that while no Eileen Fisher garments were being made in Xinjiang and that it wasn’t getting fabric or yarn from the region, the company didn’t know whether […]




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Bolt Built $11 Billion Business With Inflated Metrics and Eager Investors

A Fund-Raising GuruStill, Mr. Breslow has become something of a legend in the Valley, for his fund-raising prowess and his outspoken behavior. Last summer, he self-published a 58-page book on […]




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What to Wear to Return to the Office? Retailers Have No Idea.

The shift isn’t just a matter of taste — it has ramifications for mass apparel, a significant segment of the economy, and the physical face of retail, which is the second-biggest […]







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Gopuff Buys Time for Its 30-Minutes-or-Less Delivery Promise

“Once you can execute, and obviously that’s hard, it wins in the long term,” he said.Gopuff added that it was putting a public offering on the back burner because the […]




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Ukraine War Reverberates in Europe’s Factories and Warehouses

PARIS — The shoes, 600 pairs in all, lay untouched inside an Italian warehouse: magenta sandals, décolleté heels and gold ballerina flats, destined for Russian boutiques but stuck in a […]




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Oakland Cannabis Sellers, Once Full of Hope, Face a Harsh Reality

OAKLAND, Calif. — Across from where the Athletics play baseball sits a two-story concrete building painted bright orange and white. It is home to a cannabis dispensary called Blunts and […]




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No Ikea Shelves, No Levis: The Western Retail Exodus From Russia Is On

Ms. Townsend said that luxury brands may also be nervous about selling in Russia because, increasingly, many of the wealthiest people in the country were subject to sanctions.“Typically, when you […]




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Amazon Opens a Whole Foods With the Next Step in Automation

“Would you like to sign in with your palm?”That was the question a cheerful Amazon employee posed when greeting me last week at the opening of a Whole Foods Market […]