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Billions of Dollars Are at Stake in a Puzzling Holiday Shopping Season

It doesn’t matter much to retailers, who used the early holiday sales to try to offload products before most shoppers had even picked out their Halloween costumes. But it signaled […]




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Billions of Dollars at Stake in a Puzzling Holiday Shopping Season

It doesn’t matter much to retailers, who used the early holiday sales to try to offload products before most shoppers had even picked out their Halloween costumes. But it signaled […]




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US Shoppers Are Still Spending, as Long as Retailers Give Them a Reason

Despite months of unease about the state of the economy, Americans remain willing to spend money on all sorts of goods. But they are making it clear that retailers must […]




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Retailers Stumble Adjusting to More Selective Shoppers

This hasn’t been the year retailers planned for.After two years of navigating the pandemic — which brought record online sales and shoppers willing to buy all manners of items, to […]







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As Inventory Piles Up, Liquidation Warehouses Are Busy

PITTSTON, Pa. — Once upon a time, when parents were scrambling to occupy their children during pandemic lockdowns, bicycles were hard to find. But today, in a giant warehouse in […]




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Bosses Have a New Headache: How Long Should Sick Workers Isolate?

Barbara Sibley’s four New York restaurants had already weathered the city’s initial Covid-19 wave, the prevaccine surge last winter and this summer’s Delta spike when last weekend it finally happened: […]




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In the Recovering Economy, Workers Have More Leverage

At 3M, a multinational manufacturing company based in Minnesota, internal polling showed that 87 percent of employees valued flexibility in where they could work; in August, while the Delta variant […]




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Corporate Climate Pledges Often Ignore a Key Component: Supply Chains

For nearly 30 years, the pharmaceutical giant Bristol Myers Squibb has proclaimed it’s been setting and meeting ambitious targets around energy and greenhouse gas emissions. These days, those goals include […]