Overstock.com buys Bed, Bath, ands Beyond

When you go to overstock.com, it now forwards the URL to bedbathandbeyound.com.  The company bought out the former Bed Bath and Beyond franchise for $21.5 million, According to FoxBusiness.com: Overstock.com, which acquired the bankrupt retail chain’s intellectual property assets for $21.5 million, officially relaunched Tuesday as BedBathandBeyond.com in the United States, reviving what CEO Jonathan […]

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CNN: Wegmans ending self-checkout due to increase in shoplifting

New YorkCNN Business —  In 2019, Wegmans, the cult-favorite northeastern grocery chain, rolled out a new mobile app that allowed customers to scan, bag and pay for groceries while they shopped and then skip the checkout line altogether. The app, Wegmans SCAN, promised customers a quicker checkout and also let them see a running total of […]

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QVC’s Distribution Center Fire in North Carolina last Sunday – Finds Body in Rubble

A 21-year-old man was found dead at the QVC distribution center in North Carolina on Sunday, a day after a five-alarm fire burned through the facility. Fire Search and Recovery members had located a body “on the outbound side of the loading dock” at the QVC building in Rocky Mount, the Edgecombe County Sheriff’s Office […]

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