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How do retailers decide when to raise prices?

by Marielle Segarra
Aug 3, 2021
The price of many products, supplies and raw materials has been rising. Retailers must figure out when to pass those costs along to customers.
A shopper checks her receipt in a mall in April 2021.
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Program helps immigrant women launch child care businesses

by Elizabeth Trovall
Jul 28, 2021
The training enables them to help fill the child care gap as entrepreneurs, supporting Houston moms who want to enter or rejoin the workforce.
Ngoc Ho sings in English and Vietnamese with her young class at Dino Land Academy.
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Businesses are re-opening at a frenetic pace, Yelp finds — especially where vaccination rates are higher

by Mitchell Hartman
Jul 23, 2021
Where there are lower vaccination rates, there’s less consumer interest.
A man walks past a restaurant with an illuminated "Open" sign on May 5 in Los Angeles.
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Illinois allows home cooks to sell shelf-stable foods beyond farmers markets

by Natalie Moore
Jul 20, 2021
A new law will enable entrepreneurs to make direct sales and deliveries of bread, cake and other homemade products across the state.
Starting in January, cottage food operators can make direct sales and deliveries of products like cookies, breads and jams.
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How some workers changed their careers during the pandemic

by Kai Ryssdal and Richard Cunningham
Jun 30, 2021
We talked to three people about how their career paths were altered during the pandemic and where they think they'll be a year from now.
As the COVID-19 pandemic begins to wane in the U.S., workers are reevaluating their job options.
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Making gelato e-commerce friendly is like starting a new business

by Sean McHenry
Jun 18, 2021
Uli Nasibova of Uli's Gelato in Los Angeles, sees her future online, but getting there could mean some trial and error.
"I spent the first six or seven months creating an e-commerce solution for shipping my gelato, and the economics of that already aged," says Uli Nasibova, owner of Uli's Gelato.
Nina Uemurasachi
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For restaurants, tough pandemic decisions are starting to pay off

by Justin Ho
Jun 1, 2021
Restaurants had to make hard choices over the last year to stay alive –– choices that, it turns out, made them more efficient.
Restaurant owners have had to let go of many employees, but they've also made their production processes speedier and with less employee-customer contact. Which of these changes will stick?
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An errand business delivers for its owner, despite the pandemic

by Leoneda Inge
May 24, 2021
Although many Black-owned businesses disappeared during the pandemic, one North Carolina concierge service has thrived.
Tina Travis, founder of Errand Girl of Durham.
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Many businesses may keep the cash-free model they started in the pandemic

by Benjamin Gottlieb
May 21, 2021
The pandemic has accelerated the cashless trend, according to the electronic payments company Square.
According to one expert, we were headed towards cashless businesses anyways. The pandemic got us there three years quicker.
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A flood-damaged Kurdish market begins to recover with community support

by Alexis Marshall
May 12, 2021
Nashville's Botan Market reopened in time to serve its community during Ramadan.
Botan Market in Nashville, Tennessee, suffered more than $300,000 in inventory damage during recent flooding.
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