retailing
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Amazon’s First Physical Clothing Store Opens With Tech-Filled Fitting Rooms
As convenient as it is to buy online, shopping for clothes online is always a risk. There are no virtual changing rooms (unless you use a janky AR app), clothes never fit to size, and photos only reveal so much about the colour, texture, and quality of a garment. Amazon, seemingly recognising the limitations of…
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Judge Tells Amazon to Rehire Previously Fired Employee, Give Him Lost Wages
Amazon just can’t seem to catch a break, at least in its efforts to keep employees in line.
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The FTC Is Probing How Amazon Allegedly Tricks People Into Signing Up for Prime
Someone at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has had it with free trials that turn out not to be so free months later. The federal agency thought that the online signup for Amazon Prime was so shady it conducted an official inquiry into it.
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7-Eleven Stores in Japan Are Getting Touch-Free Floating Holographic Self-Checkouts
As convenient as self-checkout machines can be for quickly getting out of a store, they’re also a convenient way to expose yourself to a touchscreen that thousands of others have used. To make the machines more sanitary, some 7-Eleven stores in Japan will be installing floating holographic displays that work without any physical contact.