Amazon-Whole Foods Deal Is Bad News For Store Cashiers And The Fight For $15 Minimum Wage
The Amazon-Whole Foods deal will have winners and losers. Among the losers will be minimum wage employees like cashiers, as Amazon’s technology will make them dispensable and speed up a trend already underway in traditional retail chains…and in the process, make the $15 minimum wage irrelevant.
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Amazon Has Patented A Tool To Block The Kind Of Price Comparisons That Grew Its Empire
The algorithm could keep Amazon's in-store shoppers from comparing online prices, a practice which helped the retail giant crush its brick-and-mortar competition.
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How To Play Off Institutional Myopia
Let's toss the Federal Reserve Board a bunch of carrots. Dumb bunnies, looking for inflation under every rock, but finding nothing. The Fed stands victimized by its own past errors.
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4 Reasons To Buy Adobe Systems Before It Hits $200
By disrupting itself in 2011, Adobe has adapted to changing customer needs which propelled expectations-beating revenue and profit growth.
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Two Bullish Biotech Stocks And A Very Bearish Looking Yelp
Here are two stocks with strong upside technical momentum and two to watch for downside continuation.
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What Does The Bear Market In Oil Tell Us About Stocks?
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Oil prices officially re-entered a bear market (defined by a decline of -20% below a recent high) as global demand remains tepid and supply remains stubbornly high. Economics 101 tells us that commodity prices are a function of supply and demand.
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Time To Look For Enticing Values In Small-Cap Stocks?
The environment of rising rates and cutback in regulations bode well for small-cap stocks.
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BlackRock Looks To Europe Robo-Advising Market With Minority Stake In Scalable Capital
BlackRock recently took its first step into Europe’s growing digital investment manager industry – commonly referred to as the robo-advisory industry – by acquiring a minority stake in Scalable Capital.
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Quincy Brown And Shortcut Partner To Grow On-Demand Mobile Barbershop
The on-demand mobile barbershop recently partnered with actor and entrepreneur Quincy Brown to expand the company and develop into a lifestyle brand.
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Modi's India The World's 4th Fastest Growing Economy
Prime Minister Modi’s currency experimentation has not stopped India’s vibrant economy, which is the world’s 4th fastest growing economy in the world thus far in 2017.
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