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...Marketers are increasingly “asking retailers to prove” how much value is added by such advertising, says Paul Frampton, global president of digital marketing consultancy Control v Exposed....
...We just saw the FTC take on Walmart in a new case....
...US president Joe Biden has persuaded Walmart, UPS and FedEx to extend their working hours to ease the country’s supply chain woes....
...Hungary is the only EU member to have approved both the Chinese-made Sinopharm and Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines....
...Retailers Walmart and Best Buy, and industrial groups Newell Brands and Mattel, are likely to be “the largest users” of such services, said Panjiva, the supply chain intelligence unit of S&P....
...(Billy Nauman) US chiefs find their voice on gun violence It is 23 years since Walmart banned a Sheryl Crow album that featured lyrics about children killing each other “with a gun they bought at the Walmart...
...Also, US regulators rewrite the Volcker rule, Facebook launches a new privacy tool pilot and Walmart sues Tesla over solar panel fires....
...The pair's first target: ecommerce, where rivals Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart dominate. (FT) Is AI the future of call centres?...
...(FT) Walmart v Amazon Few retailers are coping better with the relentless rise of Amazon than the country’s largest retailer Walmart....
...These factors mean that what was supposed to be a V-shaped trajectory in AxJ would look more U-shaped....
...If there’s a V-shaped recovery on the horizon “the market probably buys the EPS downgrade, assuming that the disruption is eventually contained.”...
...If you missed it, this long read by our media correspondent Anna Nicolaou charts the drama of The People v Harvey Weinstein trial....
...Walmart’s like-for-like US sales rose 4.2 per cent in the three months to the end of January and that’s powered a nice bump in its shares today....
...The day ahead US retail earnings Investors are set to gain more insight into the US retail landscape with the earnings results of JCPenney, Nordstrom and Walmart on Thursday....
...It’s an apt name for the Supreme Court’s latest terrible decision, the 5-4 ruling in Janus v AFSCME, which will defund what is left of America’s union movement....
...For most of this century the very large companies such as United Airlines and Walmart have squeezed their suppliers....
...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....
...Tetrick shudders at the V-word. “Like ketchup is a vegan product,” he says defensively. Just’s vision is not to have its products adopted only by vegan San Franciscans....
...Walmart has looked to discount its prices, even for organic groceries, to retain market share....
...The biggest activist fight — Nelson Peltz v Procter & Gamble — was only recently settled, two months after a shareholder vote....
...Once Ordóñez was out of danger, she was arrested, and spent the next 11 months in prison....
...The Trump administration’s promised tax revolution has also triggered a corporate civil war between importers (such as Walmart) and exporters (such as GE) in the US....
...Among the many tradeoffs emphasised by economists are guns v butter, public v private, efficiency v equity, quality v quantity or cost and short-term v long-term performance....
...Walmart acquired discount stores Wertkauf and Interspar in 1997 but after nine years it conceded defeat, sold 85 stores to Metro AG and incurred a loss of $1bn....
...Walmart lost nearly a tenth of its $200bn market value after issuing a dire warning that investment in ecommerce and wages would hit profits over the next few years....
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