Hints and tips:
...The menswear runways are full of them, celebrities are wearing them on the red carpet, and stores are placing them at the heart of their spring/summer 2024 offerings....
...The dollar store model has seen great growth over time and generates a lot of free cash flow....
...Many of them — Costco, AutoZone, Dick’s Sporting Goods — grew sales very quickly in the pandemic years and must now be wondering what’s coming next....
...The game is available to play for free, but players can use its in-game currency, V-Bucks, to buy virtual items, from outfits to accessories and weapons, to personalise their characters....
...Tesco, for instance, has installed 500 “smart screens” at entrances to its connected stores through a partnership with JCDecaux....
...The V&A in London is also in difficulties over treasures in its recent wonderful exhibition of Fabergé eggs, which ended some weeks ago....
...Reach out to me (imani.moise@ft.com) or Sid (sid.v@ft.com) to let us know. Happy reading!...
...This included its cut from App Store purchases, which came under fire again on Thursday....
...Players of Fortnite, developed by Epic, were able to purchase an in-game currency known as “V-bucks” online, but these credits would not show up when playing on the iPhone....
...The sandwich stores and salad bars of Britain are still tormenting us with coronation chicken, a recipe originally created as a dish for George V’s silver jubilee, and later updated and rebranded “coronation...
...of the store....
...All three are angry with Apple over its restrictions on them in the App Store....
...But sales of the Ariens Ikon XD, featuring 20-inch tyres, a V-twin Kawasaki engine and ergonomic plush seat, have surged in the US during the pandemic....
...AstraZeneca Plc has made a preliminary approach to rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest health-care deal...
...A-fun is partnering with a large Korean conglomerate to roll out 3D avatars in their convenience stores in the coming years....
...We literally only buy from stores....
...According to Monday’s agreement, the fee on in-store purchases will fall to 0.2 per cent of the transaction value for debit cards and 0.3 per cent for credit cards....
...‘Everybody’s been looking for the sign’ “It has been quite a week,” said Lise Buyer, who advises companies on their initial public offerings at Class V Group....
...Over the same period, its store count rose 5 per cent a year and average sales per store by just 1 per cent....
...and mortar stores....
...There is a mystery at PetSmart, the private-equity-backed pet store with $8.2bn of debt, all of which is trading below 80 cents on the dollar....
...Bill Rhodes, AutoZone’s chief executive, said it was “a very challenging spring sales season”....
...O’Reilly’s same-store sales climbed 1.7 per cent in the second quarter, far short of expectations of 3 per cent to 5 per cent....
...You Don’t Own Me: How Mattel v....
...A 34oz bottle of P&G’s Pantene Pro-V Shampoo & Conditioner was listed by 10 different sellers — nine of them third parties — on the shopping site....
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