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...This was the approach at Walmart, which has a dedicated digital citizenship team of lawyers, compliance professionals, policy experts and technologists....
...According to Graham Allison’s so-called “Thucydides trap”, a rising hegemon usually clashes with the existing one on its way down....
...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....
...“There’s a sweet spot between 20 and 30 miles, where there is a lot of congestion and car trips can take a long time,” says Eric Allison, head of product for Joby, the American eVTOL start-up....
...Let us know what fintech predictions you have for the rest of the year at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...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....
...Early signs of improvement in other portions of the global economy along with US “political considerations” could place further pressure on the dollar, said Allison Nathan, a strategist at Goldman Sachs....
...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....
...My own feeling is that this will not be a V or even a U-shaped recovery, but a downwardly trending W that has a high risk of turning into a L....
...Chris Allison’s Midori mixer helps keep his cocktail swampishly green. The whisky base reminds him of the smoke-filled rooms of old....
...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....
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