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Customers use self-checkout kiosks at Stew Leonard's grocery store in Paramus, N.J., Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023, in New York. Self-checkout faces a reckoning of sorts just as retailers are in the midst of their busiest time of the year. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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Love it or hate it, self-checkout is here to stay. But it's going through a reckoning
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO - AP Retail Writer
Fri,12/15/23-4:38PM , 198 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — The promise of self-checkout was alluring: Customers could avoid long lines by scanning and bagging their own items, workers could be freed of doing those monotonous tasks themselves and retailers could save on labor costs.
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The Hasbro logo is seen, April 26, 2018, in New York. Toy maker Hasbro said Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, that it is cutting about 1,100 jobs, or 20% of its workforce, as the malaise in the toy business extends through another holiday shopping season. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

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Hasbro cuts 1,100 jobs, or 20% of its workforce, prompted by the ongoing malaise in the toy business
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO - AP Retail Writer
Mon,12/11/23-5:57PM , 233 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Toy maker Hasbro said Monday it is cutting about 1,100 jobs, or 20% of its workforce, as the malaise in the toy business extends through another holiday shopping season.
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Levi Strauss & Co CEO Chip Bergh is interviewed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, March 21, 2019. Levi Strauss & Co said Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, that its CEO will step down in January 2024 and hand over the reins of the jeans maker to his appointed successor. Bergh will cede the CEO job to Michelle Gass, who left her CEO role at Kohl’s to become president of Levi’s in January of this year. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

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Levi's CEO Chip Bergh to step down in January, handing over leadership to former CEO of Kohl's
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO - AP Retail Writer
Thu,12/07/23-5:28PM , 432 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Levi Strauss & Co. said Thursday that its CEO will step down in January and hand over the reins of the jeans maker to his appointed successor.

Chip Bergh, 66, will cede the CEO job to Michelle Gass, 55, who left her CEO role at Kohl’s to become president of Levi’s in January of this year.
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A sign announces Black Friday specials on luggage sets inside a Macy's department store on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, in Denver. Retailers are kicking off the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season on Friday with a bevy of discounts and other enticements. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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Retailers are ready to kick off Black Friday just as shoppers pull back on spending
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO - AP Retail Writer
Wed,11/22/23-4:24PM , 304 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Retailers are kicking off the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season on Friday with a bevy of discounts and other enticements.
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