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Trillions in revenue and a million jobs: Unpacking JD.com’s 20-year roadmap

Inside Retail

The company began offering general merchandise in 2008, transforming JD from an electronics retailer to a full-fledged e-commerce platform, and launched an online marketplace platform in 2010. A nuanced perspective Xiaofeng Wang, a principal analyst at Forrester, described the roadmap as “courageous”, given how forward-looking it is.

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Meijer opens three new supercenters

Mass Relators

Located in Seven Hills and Boardman, Ohio, and Westfield, Indiana, the new stores promise “a state-of-the-art shopping experience,” providing customers multiple ways to shop in a specialty store environment. ” The post Meijer opens three new supercenters appeared first on MMR: Mass Market Retailers.

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Meijer marks supercenter’s 60th anniversary

Mass Relators

“The opening of ‘Thrifty Acres’ in June 1962, was history in the making, although I’m not sure our dad and grandfather realized it at the time,” Meijer Executive Chairman Hank Meijer said. . — Meijer Inc. The stores would come to be known as supercenters. The 28th St.