This equipment processes the most cutting-edge ideas and inventions on earth.

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It also will modify supply chain processes throughout the company with an aim toward cutting Best Buy costs.

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That union, says Esteban Kolsky of Gartner, a consultancy, is now doing for the service sector what mass production once did for manufacturing: automating processes and significantly cutting costs.

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