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Behind a $13 Shirt, a $6-an-Hour Worker

Before dawn six days a week, Norma Ulloa left the two-bedroom apartment she shared with four family members and boarded a bus that took her to a stifling factory on the outskirts of downtown Los Angeles.

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Texas Stores Accused of Price-Gouging in Wake of Harvey

One station sold gas for a whopping $20 a gallon. A hotel reportedly charged guests more than twice the normal rate. One business sold bottles of water for a staggering $99 per case - more than 10 times some of the prices seen online.

'Amazon Effect' Sparks Deals for Software-Tracking Firms

A growing number of companies are paying to track in real time everything from truckloads of pork chops to shipping containers full of exercise equipment.

Supply Chain Terrorism Is Here to Stay, National Standards Group Says

Terrorist attacks on supply chains have increased 16 percent year-on-year, according to the British Standards Institution.

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How Two Texans Made Buc-ee's Convenience Stores a Phenomenon

The insight that runs beneath the rise of Buc-ee's convenience stores is this: You can get a lot of people to pull off the highway and spend money if you guarantee them an immaculate place in which to heed the call of nature. As one Buc-ee's billboard proclaims, "Your Throne Awaits. Fabulous Restrooms - 32 miles."

'Lack of Excitement' Is Hurting Supply Chain Recruitment, Survey Says

The supply chain talent pool is failing to keep up with changing requirements as technology and digitalisation reshape the industry, according to a survey.

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See's Candies Finds That Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Still a Sweet Spot

See's Candies is one retailer that isn't fretting about how the surge of e-commerce is affecting foot traffic at its conventional stores.

Samsung Takes Extra Safety Steps With New Galaxy Note Smartphone

The Galaxy Note 7 met an untimely demise last year after dozens of the Samsung phones overheated or exploded. So Samsung has taken extra steps to make sure the Note 7's successor does not suffer the same outcome.

U.S. Consumer Sentiment Rose in August

U.S. consumer sentiment increased in the first half of August to its highest level since January, as Americans placed their hopes on the economy's future.

Wal-Mart and Google Are Plotting to Change Your Shopping Habits

Move over, Alexa. Wal-Mart is going high-tech in its fight against Amazon.com.

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Algorithms Meet Avocadoes: Data Science Comes to Retail

The success of modern-day retailing depends as much on information as it does on the products being sold.

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Here's How Energy Traders Got the Eclipse So Wrong

Grid operators and traders thought they were totally prepped for the historic U.S. solar eclipse. There was just this one thing they didn't completely factor in: "irregular human-behavior patterns."

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