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The year 2019 saw the highest number of job cuts in the U.S. in four years even as the nation maintained a low unemployment rate. 

It’s only January but spring is in the air at Lowe’s Companies.

In recent years, many retailers have made significant efforts to ensure that their physical locations, websites, and mobile applications are accessible to customers with disabilities in compliance with Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). 

A whopping 1.9 million is the number of return packages that UPS predicted it would process on Jan. 2, National Returns Day.

The New Year brought with it with minimum wage hikes in a total of 26 states and the District of Columbia.

Fifty-two percent of consumers have abandoned an online purchase out of fear of a difficult return process.

Here are three trends from 2019 poised to continue disrupting retail in 2020 and beyond.

At least six lawsuits have reportedly been filed in the wake of a data breach that exposed the credit and debit card information of Wawa customers.