PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Pep Boys closed 33 stores and laid off 860 employees Thursday in a restructuring the company said will save $11 million annually. About 700 store employees lost their jobs because of the 33 closings -- about 5 percent of Pep Boys' 629 stores. Another 160 corporate employees were laid off to streamline the management structure, the company said
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OAK BROOK, Ill. (Dow Jones)--McDonald's Corp. is embracing automation to expedite its recovery. From customer-controlled ordering kiosks to self-paced crew training terminals, the fast-food giant is turning to technology to attack speed-of- service and friendly employee issues in its restaurants. McDonald's showed off those and other devices at its Innovation Center to members of the press during its first-ever Media Day on Wednesday. The star attractions in the array of test-kitchen apparatus were a half dozen prototype ordering kiosks, an experimental cooking grill that does away with burger flipping and a machine that makes, salts and bags French fries automatically.
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