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Walmarts Neighborhood Market ups competitive - Page 14 - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 13th Jun, 2013 - 1:50am
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Startup Quest will give training to unemployed college degree-holders
Florida Business News
A new training program called Startup Quest will give unemployed Northeast Florida residents with college degrees some real-life training in turning cutting-edge research into marketable products.
Funded by $300,000 in federal grants for the next three years, Startup Quest will kick off in May with an information session, organizers announced Wednesday.
FloridaWorks, the University of Florida, JAX Chamber and WorkSource joined forces on the program.
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'Rock 105' silenced to make room for WOKV news-talk
Florida Business News
The mystery as to what would be broadcast on 104.5 FM came to an end early Wednesday as news and talk programming took over the airwaves.
The frequency, which was home to WFYV?s Rock 105 for 33 years, began carrying the broadcast of WOKV, Cox Media Group?s local news and talk format station.
That makes three frequencies that WOKV is operating on in the Jacksonville market. Cox had already been broadcasting the station on 106.5 FM and 690 AM.
WOKV officials said taking the station?s presence to the 104.5 frequency is a matter of expanding its audience.
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Workshops help businesses navigate digital world
Florida Business News
The Florida Times-Union and Times-Union Media hosted a series of workshops this week to help local businesses navigate their way through the digital world.
It was the third in the Times-Union's series Power Up, Your Digital Strategy.
'We're trying to help small and medium-sized businesses understand digital, understand social media,' said Lana Champion, vice president of sales for Times-Union Media.
This week's workshop, which included two sessions each on Tuesday and Wednesday, featured three speakers:
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Winn-Dixie outsourcing will lead to job losses
Florida Business News
Some Winn-Dixie jobs are being eliminated as the grocery chain?s buying, warehousing and distribution are taken over by a separate company, but the company is not saying how many or when it will take place.
On Tuesday, while talking about C&S Wholesale Grocers taking over those duties, a company spokesman said no one in the distribution system would lose their jobs.
Instead, they would become employees of C&S, said Brian White, a spokesman for Bi-Lo Holding, Winn-Dixie?s parent company.
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Jacksonville reaches tentative pension agreement with second general employee union
Florida Business News
Another domino falls.A day after striking a deal with the largest general city employee union, Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown reached an identical deal with the Jacksonville Supervisors Association on Wednesday.The agreement will have to be ratified by both the union membership and the City Council before going into effect.
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New JAX Chamber building features technology and openness
Florida Business News
Voices echo in the first floor of the JAX Chamber headquarters, a space that ? for the moment ? is but an empty shell.Soon, the chamber leadership says, the space will be filled with walls and technology, with coffee bars and WiFi, with meeting rooms and event spaces.It?s part of a $3.5 million renovation of the Independence Drive building, a project the chamber hopes to wrap up by July, about seven months after construction started.
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Taco Bell firing Calif. employee for taco licking shown in viral photo
Florida Business News
IRVINE, Calif. ? Taco Bell is firing a California employee who was photographed licking a stack of taco shells.The shot was made in March at a Taco Bell in Ridgecrest, 100 miles north of Los Angeles.Taco Bell Products Inc. says the shells were provided for workers to practice making its new Cool Ranch tacos and were thrown out without being sold.The Irvine-based company says the photograph was taken for a contest showing employees enjoying their first bite of the product. It wasn't submitted, but a worker posted it to a Facebook page ? which violates company policy.
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Walmarts Neighborhood Market ups competitive landscape in grocery sector
Florida Business News
The Jacksonville area has plenty of grocery stores, including being a longtime hub for Winn-Dixie Stores Inc.That marketplace just got more competitive as Walmart opened three of its neighborhood markets in the area Wednesday, a move that may be linked to the recent sale of Winn-Dixie to BI-LO Holdings.Walmart has staked its future on the neighborhood market stores, which are closer in size ? at about 40,000 square feet ? and appearance to a community grocery store than to their sprawling supercenters, which are about 100,000 square feet.
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