Some workers have walked off the job to demand greater safeguards, even as both companies are speed-hiring hundreds of thousands of new workers.
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Large retailers in Maine redefine how shopping works in a pandemic
Target and Best Buy stores are changing hours and policies, while others such as Macy’s are closing altogether.
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Bill would prohibit a common property tax appeal by big-box retailers
Large retailers have been pressuring Maine communities to lower their property taxes based on hypothetical arguments about the properties’ resale value.
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First Jordan’s Furniture store in Maine will have rope-climbing courses, huge LED display
The new furniture store at The Maine Mall in South Portland is expected to open in late spring.
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Minimum wage increase means overtime pay for more Maine workers
The rules taking effect Wednesday will raise the threshold – from $33,000 to $36,000 a year – at which salaried employees must be paid overtime for working more than 40 hours a week.
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A friendly reminder from the FBI: Your smart TV could give hackers a way in
Many smart TVs are equipped with cameras and microphones that allow TV makers to track what you’re up to and relay it to advertising partners.
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If that was a retail apocalypse, then where are the refugees?
As the so-called retail apocalypse has shellacked a certain kind of mall retailer, the people who were hit hardest might not have been retail workers at all.
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Mainers check out local merchants on Small Business Saturday
The 10th annual shopping event is billed as an alternative to the national retail-focused Black Friday.
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Maine retailers plug into online connections to boost their holiday sales
Many Maine companies are looking to the web to augment in-store sales even more than in recent years.
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Malls are dying. Thriving ones are spending millions to reinvent themselves.
Malls that didn’t evolve fast enough stumbled into a devastating cycle of dwindling traffic, lower sales and disappearing storefronts.