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Amazon’s Dream of Drone Deliveries Get Closer With Trump’s Executive Order by Alan Levin at Bloomberg. “Trump’s order, a response to calls from companies making and using drones, will allow local governments to apply to the Federal Aviation Administration for waivers allowing them to conduct tests of deliveries, drone air-traffic systems, long-range flights and other uses generally prohibited under current rules, Kratsios said.” Read more

 

Family Dollar worker stole secrets for her Dollar Express boyfriend, lawsuit alleges by Katherine Peralta at Charlotte Observer. “In her affidavit, Frailey admits to sharing a thumb drive containing the list with Siliakus, but she says she did not believe the information to be confidential. Frailey says that when she left Family Dollar, no one told her that any materials she had were confidential and should be returned.” Read more

 

Walgreens to Shutter Almost 600 Rite Aid Stores as Part of Megadeal by Phil Wahba at Fortune. “The locations being closed were chosen because of overlap with another Rite Aid or Walgreens location, executives said. “The vast majority being closed are within one mile of another drugstore that we own going forward,” Alexander Gourlay, WBA’s co-chief operating officer, told Wall Street analysts.” Read more

 

Best Buy expanding teen-tech program by Anne d’Innocenzio at AP. “Best Buy is expanding an after-school tech program for underprivileged teens….(Best Buy) said Wednesday the number of tech centers will grow to 60 from 11 over the next three years. The centers, hosted by nonprofit organizations with strong financial support from Best Buy, let teens explore technology such as robotics and 3-D printing.” Read more

 

Nike to re-focus efforts from 30,000 retail partners to just 40 by Clare Duffy at Portland Business Journal. “Nike officials said the company won’t necessarily remove Nike products from those other retailers, but over the next several years will focus its resources, marketing efforts and exclusive product offerings on 40 key partners, including Foot Locker and Nordstrom. The company did not release the full roster of the 40 select retail partners.” Read more | WSJ article (subs.)

 

…Nike CEO Mark Parker on CNBC in interview Wednesday afternoon “The whole speed to market, the connection to consumers, the direct connections we have to consumers powered by digital and membership is enormous,” Parker told CNBC’s “Closing Bell.” Video/Read more

 

Build-A-Bear Q3 comp sales -7.4% Press release

 

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A Record Amount of Brick and Mortar Stores Will Close in 2017 by Keshia Hannam at Fortune. “Retailers have announced plans to shutter more than 6,700 stores across the U.S. this year, CNN cited retail think-tank Fung Global Retail & Technology as saying. That beats the previous all-time high of 6,163 store closings that occurred during the 2008 financial meltdown (according to estimates by Credit Suisse).” Read more

 

Supervalu Inc. Faces Push From Activist Investor Blackwells Capital by Heather Haddon & David Benoit at Wall Street Journal. “Blackwells Capital LLC, an alternative-investment fund that is one of the company’s 10 biggest shareholders, wants the grocery company to sell dozens of its stores and bring in new leadership, among other demands, according to a letter viewed by The Wall Street Journal.” Read more (subs.)

 

Dell vendor loses control of key support domain after forgetting to renew it – vendor also names Best Buy as a client at Krebs on Security. “A Web site set up by PC maker Dell Inc. to help customers recover from malicious software and other computer maladies may have been hijacked for a few weeks this summer by people who specialize in deploying said malware, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.” Read more

 

Meijer Home Surpasses Half Million Deliveries Press release

 

IRI: Sentiment from millennials, Generation X, baby boomers, seniors on private label:

Buy private label brands to save money: 90%, 87%, 81%, 81%
Private label products are just as good in quality as national brands: 83%, 79%, 72%, 71%
Private label products are a better value than national brands: 75%, 71%, 65%, 64%   Press release

 

Millennials in $1,400 Gucci Shades Lead Luxury-Goods Revival by Robert Williams at Bloomberg. “As millennials catch the luxury bug, Bain has raised its spending forecast for the industry twice this year from an original range of 1 percent to 2 percent.” Read more

 

Martha Stewart Thanksgiving meal kits return, and this time they’re cheaper at CNBC. Read more

 

Majority of white Americans feel discriminated against: poll by Charles Ventura at USA Today. “The poll, conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, found that 55% of whites surveyed believe that “discrimination against white people exists in the U.S. today.” Read more

 

Pair Eyewear, the Warby Parker for kids, launches today by Jordan Crook at TechCrunch. Read more

 

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