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In a week when Apple introduced a new Watch and there was a lot of TikTok-ing noise, this also happened:

Walmart said it is teaming up with Zipline to launch a drone delivery program early next year that will deliver health and wellness products close to the retailer’s headquarters in Northwest Arkansas. It was the second delivery drone deal for Walmart within a week. It’s using drones from startup Flytrex, right, to deliver groceries and household essentials from its Walmart stores in North Carolina. South San Francisco’s Zipline, founded in 2014, has the world’s largest drone delivery network and began operating in late 2016 in Rwanda, primarily focusing on on-demand delivery of medical supplies. It has now delivered more than 200,0000 medical items to thousands of health facilities in several countries.

Carnival Corp. said it will part with 8 cruise ships in the next few months — 12% of its fleet — as it continues to cut costs while cruising in most of the world remains banned. The company had announced in July it would get rid of 15 ships. The move to more swiftly slim capacity comes as cruises in the U.S., the company’s most lucrative market, remain banned by the

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention until Oct. 1.

The federal government reported that retail sales climbed for the fourth straight month in August, extending a bounce-back that has lasted longer than many economists had expected. The gains, however, were smaller than in previous months, which some economists warned could be a sign that the retail recovery was running out of steam.

Apple said it will open its first online store in India this week, seeking more sales in one of the world’s fastest-growing markets.

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