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Pickleball is a hit with millennials – the average player is 35 years old — and over 25,000 new courts are needed to keep up with demand

Thu, 08/17/2023 - 04:00

Tech Insider : Sports

Walmart pickleball — Pickleball continues to be the fastest-growing sport in the US, and a new report says we'll need more than 25,000 new courts in the coming years to keep up with demand.
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Retail, pickleball, Sports, recreation

Target CEO says thefts 'involving violence or threats of violence' have more than doubled this year so far

Wed, 08/16/2023 - 13:44

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A row of Target shopping carts — "During the first five months of this year, our stores saw a 120% increase in theft incidents involving violence or threats of violence," Target CEO Brian Cornell said Wednesday.
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Retail, Target, Retail Crime, retail theft, Organized Retail Crime, Organized Retail Theft, Shrink

Trader Joe's executives say employees will never be replaced by self checkout and he insists those chatty cashiers are not trained to flirt

Wed, 08/16/2023 - 13:02

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A Trader Joes cashier and customer — She's not flirting with you.
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Retail, Grocery, Shopping, Trader Joe's, Self-Checkout

An Instacart customer said she discovered the app's higher prices cost her nearly $100 after accidentally seeing the store's paper receipt

Wed, 08/16/2023 - 11:52

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A male Instacart shopper wearing black jacket with the white Adidas stripes on the sleeves pushes a shopping cart with bags of groceries from Ralph's while wearing a surgical mask in a parking lot. — Instacart shoppers aren't allowed to give customers the paper receipt from their trip the store when they deliver groceries and other goods for the service.
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Retail, Tech Insider, Grocery, Food, instacart, Delivery, eCommerce

How 60,000 pounds of crawfish are harvested a day in Louisiana

Wed, 08/16/2023 - 11:48

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Louisiana produces 90% of the United States' crawfish. Most of the farmed crawfish comes from rice fields in one small area of Cajun country. There, the industry is fairly new. In the 1980s, rice farmers experimented with cultivating crawfish in their fields.