Christopher Zara
Senior News Editor at Fast Company
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1 week ago |
fastcompany.com | Christopher Zara
Big Lots continues to trickle back to life after a bankruptcy last year that was widely expected to lead to its demise. The discount retailer will see another 54 store reopenings at the beginning of next month, according to Variety Wholesalers, the North Carolina-based retail company that has taken control of hundreds of Big Lots leases. These “second wave” store openings will span 12 states across the South and Midwest, a Variety spokesperson shared with Fast Company.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Christopher Zara
Big Lots continues to trickle back to life after a bankruptcy last year that was widely expected to lead to its demise. Most Read from Fast CompanyThe discount retailer will see another 54 store reopenings at the beginning of next month, according to Variety Wholesalers, the North Carolina-based retail company that has taken control of hundreds of Big Lots leases.
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1 week ago |
fastcompany.com | Christopher Zara
Never underestimate the news media’s ability to amplify the mundane with urgent-sounding headlines. If you follow the twists and turns of the retail industry as closely as we news-watchers do, you may have noticed recently that the simple act of closing for the Easter holiday has been rebranded as a “retail blackout.” If you’ve been at all confused by this oversold terminology, here’s a brief explainer to help break it down: What’s happening?
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2 weeks ago |
devicedaily.com | Christopher Zara
Big Lots store closures update: Other retailers are swooping in to take over locations in several states Ocean State Job Lot, a discount brand with a strong presence in New England and the Northeast, may snatch up more than a dozen Big Lots leases.
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1 month ago |
fastcompany.com | Christopher Zara
If you’ve been on Google or virtually any social media website over the past few days, you might have seen stories about Amazon layoffs making the rounds. And if you were curious enough to click through to any of those stories, you might have discovered that Amazon is supposedly planning to lay off 14,000 managers by the end of this quarter—a stunning figure, even for a company as big as Amazon. But that figure is untrue.
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