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Alex Vuocolo

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As seen in: Morning Brew, Yahoo News, Entrepreneur, Fortune, Green Entrepreneur, Flipboard, Polygon, Sacramento Business Journal, Popular Mechanics, Cheddar News, NewsBreak and
Covers:  inflation, Federal Reserve, supply chains, labor, energy
Doesn't Cover: elections
Retail Reporter @morningbrew. Formerly covered the Fed at @cheddarnews. Opinions are very much my own.
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Amazon Union Vote Will Ride on Who Voted and Which Department They Work In

Amazon Union Vote Will Ride on Who Voted and Which Department They Work In

Cheddar News — Votes for unionization at the Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island, New York, are now being tabulated, and the results might entirely depend on who voted and to which department they belong.
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Amazon Invests in Tech to Improve Safety, but Not All Robots Reduce Injuries

Amazon Invests in Tech to Improve Safety, but Not All Robots Reduce Injuries

Cheddar News — The e-commerce giant Amazon announced plans to invest $1 billion in companies developing supply chain-related robotics and technology solutions.
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Price Pressures

Price Pressures

strangematters.coop — Consider Walmart's roll-back commercials from the late 1990s, in which a smiling yellow ball in a cowboy hat snapped a whip at a price tag, lowering the number by weirdly precise increments, like $9.97 to $7.83. In retrospect, this marketing was odd. Who was this ball creature?
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The Disappearing Art Of Maintenance | NOEMA

The Disappearing Art Of Maintenance | NOEMA

Noema Magazine — The R32 trains, nicknamed the Brightliners for their shiny unpainted exteriors, were built to last 35 years. (Imagine that: Your lifespan stamped into metal, your death prefigured.) When they were finally retired from service in January, they had been riding the rails of New York City for no less than 58 years and were, by most accounts, the oldest operating subway cars in the world.
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EVs Gobble Up Rare Earth Minerals as Miners Struggle to Keep Up

EVs Gobble Up Rare Earth Minerals as Miners Struggle to Keep Up

Cheddar News — Arguably the biggest challenge to the rise of electric vehicles is their outsized demand for rare earth minerals. Cheddar's Alex Vuocolo does a deep dive into the struggle over securing supply chains for a green tech future.
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Lyft Pulled Thousands of E-Bikes From City Streets. Here’s What Went Wrong.

Lyft Pulled Thousands of E-Bikes From City Streets. Here’s What Went Wrong.

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Pharmacists feel the pressure in fight against opioids

Pharmacists feel the pressure in fight against opioids

Delaware Business Times — Kim Robbins didn't usually get asked for the same drug twice by a single customer. But one day in 2005, she finished a shift at the Happy Harry's pharmacy in Harrington and drove up to Dover to cover for a friend. When a familiar face came in asking to fill a prescription of painkillers, she knew something was off.
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Can a handful of divided, volunteer advocates come together to fix Chester's pollution problem?

Can a handful of divided, volunteer advocates come together to fix Chester's pollution problem?

Grid Magazine —
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