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America's Most Popular Doll Is Being Counterfeited. Toymaker MGA Wants to Know Who's Doing It.

Earlier this year, attorney Jennifer Marrow visited TomTop.com, an online marketplace, to buy one of the most popular toys in America.

July 20, 2018

Los Angeles Times

Earlier this year, attorney Jennifer Marrow visited TomTop.com, an online marketplace, to buy one of the most popular toys in America.

How This Plastic-Free Town Became Britain's First

Emily Kavanaugh is standing in her skincare-product shop, Pure Nuff Stuff, on Chapel Street. The narrow lane leads down towards the Jubilee pool, the triangular lido that juts like a ship’s prow into the sea from Penzance. “Here, try one,” Kavanaugh says, handing me a piece of packing material.

July 19, 2018

The Guardian

Emily Kavanaugh is standing in her skincare-product shop, Pure Nuff Stuff, on Chapel Street. The narrow lane leads down towards the Jubilee pool, the triangular lido that juts like a ship’s prow into the sea from Penzance. “Here, try one,” Kavanaugh says, handing me a piece of packing material.

America's Trucker Shortage Is Hitting Home

The trucking industry, the backbone of the U.S. economy, is carrying more weight than ever despite a critical shortage of drivers.

July 18, 2018

Fortune

The trucking industry, the backbone of the U.S. economy, is carrying more weight than ever despite a critical shortage of drivers.

Amazon Rival FreshDirect Draws Battle Lines With Bronx Warehouse

FreshDirect has figured out an important trick: how to make money delivering groceries.

July 18, 2018

Bloomberg

FreshDirect has figured out an important trick: how to make money delivering groceries.

Amazon Prime Day Becomes a Flash Point for Worker Strikes and Customer Protests

Amazon.com Inc. workers, who have long gone on strike in the run-up to the holidays, have found a new occasion to get their employer's attention: Prime Day.

July 17, 2018

Los Angeles Times

Amazon.com Inc. workers, who have long gone on strike in the run-up to the holidays, have found a new occasion to get their employer's attention: Prime Day.

U.S. Warehouse Supply at Its Tightest in Two Decades

For U.S. retailers, manufacturers, importers and exporters, warehouse space is at its tightest since 2000, when the first dot-com boom was driving strong consumer spending and imports from China were beginning to surge.

July 12, 2018

The Wall Street Journal

For U.S. retailers, manufacturers, importers and exporters, warehouse space is at its tightest since 2000, when the first dot-com boom was driving strong consumer spending and imports from China were beginning to surge.

America’s Severe Trucker Shortage Could Undermine the Prosperous Economy

July 6, 2018

The Washington Post

Bob Blocksom, an 87-year-old former insurance salesman in Lake Milton, Ohio, needs a job. He hasn’t saved enough money for his retirement. And trucking companies, desperate for workers, are willing to give him one.

Is Bezos Holding Seattle Hostage? The Cost of Being Amazon's Home

July 6, 2018

The Guardian

However they see Amazon, for good or ill, residents of the fastest-growing city in the U.S. largely agree on the price Seattle has paid to be the home of the megacorporation: surging rents, homelessness, traffic-clogged streets, overburdened public transport, an influx of young men in polo shirts and a creeping uniformity rubbing against the city’s counterculture.

New Era at Amazon’s Whole Foods Grates on Some Suppliers, Employees

July 3, 2018

The Wall Street Journal

Amazon.com Inc. has infused Whole Foods with its efficient, data-driven ethos in the year since it bought the natural grocer. But not all Whole Foods employees and suppliers are happy about that.