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The layoffs will not affect retail employees who work at Target's nearly 2,000 stores across the US.

He said the only way he has managed to stay in the industry was by cutting out the middleman and setting up his own stores to reach consumers directly.

Founder Dan Evins, a Tennessee oil jobber, envisioned a restaurant and retail operation themed around old-time country stores, where people gathered to play checkers on barrels once used to deliver crackers.

Ford has irked U.S. officials by removing U.S. alcohol from the province’s state-run liquor stores.

The consumer-inflation numbers, on the other hand, come largely from BLS staffers who actively survey businesses’ prices, including through in-person visits to stores and offices.