Cyber Monday is one of the Zappos call center’s busiest times of the year, and the company pulled out all the stops to make sure its employees were at ease.
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Hundreds of people wandered from car to car Sunday afternoon at the Las Vegas Convention Center, on the third and final day of the show. It featured more than 350 new cars, trucks and SUVs from manufacturers such as Ford, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai and Chevrolet.
By early Friday evening, there had been no major reports of the deal-inspired chaos that has become central to Black Friday lore in the U.S. — fistfights over discounted televisions or stampedes toward coveted sale items.
Thousands of Southern Nevadans joined millions nationwide in the unofficial kickoff of the holiday retail season Friday. Many locations jump-started things Thursday.
A former office manager who had been unemployed for eight months, Rose Porter was among 85 people hired through J.C. Penney’s annual job fair in October, and one of 7,000 seasonal workers across multiple retailers this season in Nevada, according to Retail Association of Nevada estimates.
Two stores in the Las Vegas area have found opposite uses for virtual reality this year — one to add people onto the sales floor, the other to remove people from the sales floor.
It’s unclear when Station would develop a project or if the company has drawn up plans for one. But its purchase is a wager on a fast-growing area and is a throwback to the pre-recession days , when the company loaded up on future resort sites before Station went bankrupt.
Artist Connect, Andrea Cheaney’s startup pitch, took first place at this year’s Startup Weekend Las Vegas.
Spectacles and events are classic tools for shopping centers to draw a crowd. They’ve become more important than ever at a time when the experience of shopping competes with the convenience and prices of e-commerce, said Stephanie Cegielski, spokeswoman for the International Council of Shopping Centers trade group.
The seventh annual conference, which kicks off Wednesday at the Las Vegas Convention Center, will bring more than 25,000 industry professionals to town for three days of networking and deal making. More than 1,000 exhibitors will offer an array of industry services and products ranging from accounting software to extraction equipment.