New Channels News In Brief…
Boxed Wholesale of New York City, the online wholesale shopping club with no membership fees, has been named to the 2016 Best Places to Work in New York City list by Crain’s New York Business and Best Companies Group. In 2015, co-founder and CEO Chieh Huang created a fund to pay for employees’ children’s college tuition. This year, Boxed announced a new wedding benefit, which offers assistance with wedding costs; it began when an employee was faced with financial hardship after covering his mother’s medical bills and was unable to pay for his upcoming wedding. Founded in 2013, Boxed Wholesale uses a mobile app that allows consumers direct-to-their-door access to all warehouse club products, without membership fees. Boxed brings convenience and savings to on-the-go consumers who don’t have the time, means or patience to shop at a brick-and-mortar, big-box or club store, according to the company…
Nature’s Path, a North American organic breakfast and snack company, has acquired a 51 percent stake in Gorilly Goods, an on-the-go snack that offers a range of savory to sweet organic and non-GMO nuts, fruits, seeds and greens combinations. Nature’s Path previously acquired acquisitions of Que Pasa organic and non-GMO tortilla chips and salsa, as well as Country Choice Organics…
The IRS has reported an increase of IRS impersonation scams in the form of automated calls and new tactics from scammers demanding tax payments on iTunes and other gift cards. The IRS has seen an increase in “robo-calls” in which scammers leave urgent callback requests through the phone telling taxpayers to call back to settle their “tax bill.” These fake calls generally claim to be the last warning before legal action is taken. Once the victim calls back, the scammers may threaten to arrest, deport or revoke the driver’s license of the victim if they don’t agree to pay. “It used to be that most of these bogus calls would come from a live-person. Scammers are evolving and using more and more automated calls in an effort to reach the largest number of victims possible,” said IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.
