Dandy Home & Ranch participates in Pink Friday
Pink Friday is a nationwide movement championing small and women-owned businesses before the start of Black Friday.
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Local business in Yuma celebrates 48 years
According to the store’s website, the Peanut Patch opened its doors in 1977 after Gerry and Franny Didier turned their love of peanut farming into a small shop.
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Small business in Yuma holds grand opening ceremony
Yuma Ship N More offers services including passport photos, private mailbox rentals, and acting as a UPS drop-off point.
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New Mobile Business Outreach Program looks to help local businesses
The Mobile Businesses Services Outreach Program is intended to bring essential services directly to communities across the state.
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Target requires employees to smile at customers to help boost sales
Bloomberg News reports it’s part of a new guidance program from Target. The incoming CEO is aiming to make stores more hospitable and turn around a trend of weak sales.
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Yuma County looks to update food codes
Yuma County is moving towards adopting updated food codes that could impact local restaurants as well as mobile food vendors.
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Visa and Mastercard strike deal to lower merchant fees
The Wall Street Journal says the agreement would end a two-decade-old dispute with merchants, which would result in lowering fees that stores pay while giving them more power to deny some credit cards.
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Local businesses preparing for winter visitors
Reporter Joaquin Hight spoke to several businesses in Downtown Yuma to see how they are preparing for the visitors, and if they are at all worried about a drop in winter visitor population.
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Yuma siblings pursue dream of opening tattoo and barbershop
Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither was this empire. We visited Empire Ink and Barber Parlor in the Foothills to highlight how this family went from being homeless to now running one of the most successful shops in Yuma.
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Daybright, Chick-fil-A’s beverage concept, now open
The new chain features handcrafted coffees, iced teas, lemonades, smoothies, cold-pressed juices, and some food, like donuts and breakfast sandwiches, but no Chick-fil-A menu items.
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Wendy’s set to announce relaunch plan amid slump
The fast food chain is facing some big hurdles: The company’s stock is down 50% year to date, they don’t have a permanent CEO, and recent promotions have largely flopped.
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Apple projects ‘best ever’ December quarter revenue
The company’s latest earnings report, released last week, shows fourth-quarter revenue, climbed to a record or more than $102 million.
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Amazon to layoff 14,000 corporate workers
In a statement Monday, Amazon’s top HR executive said AI is the “most transformative technology we’ve seen since the internet,” and said the company needs to be “organized more leanly, with fewer layers” to move more quickly for their customers.
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Toys R Us to open new stores ahead of holiday season
Toys R Us is attempting a comeback ahead of the holiday season as the nostalgic toy retailer announced it will open more than 30 new stores across the country.
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Bubba’s 33 to help boost Yuma economy
A new restaurant officially opens its doors in Yuma as tens of people waited in line early Monday for the grand opening of Bubba’s 33.
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President of the European Central Bank on global economy
Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, with Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation Sunday about the state of the global economy.
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Bubba’s 33 holds official ribbon-cutting ceremony in Yuma
Bubba’s 33, located at the corner of 16th Street and Fourth Avenue, held its ribbon cutting Friday, with the Yuma Chamber of Commerce and Mayor Douglas Nicholls in attendance.
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Sprouts opens location in Yuma Foothills
Residents in Yuma’s Fortuna Foothills are getting a fresh new addition to their neighborhood.
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Spirit Halloween to open more Christmas stores
Starting in early November, 30 new “Spirit Christmas” locations will open in the Northeast and Great Lakes regions.
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Gold prices reach $4,000 per ounce for the first time
According to a CNBC report, gold futures crossed the $4,000 per ounce mark Tuesday, and investors seek a safe haven from a weaker dollar, geopolitical and economic uncertainty, and stubborn inflation.
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