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...Home Depot edged up 0.1 per cent....
...DIY retailer Home Depot reported another decline in sales during its second quarter as consumers persisted with minor home improvement projects but refrained from buying big-ticket items....
...John Randal Tyson’s arrest in Arkansas came just weeks after his promotion sparked concern from analysts and investors over the depth of his experience....
...“I flew down to Arkansas really out of curiosity. I thought it might just be a one-day field trip,” she says....
...set of star-spangled kids’ pyjamas priced at $9 rather than $12: the red “rollback” signs were not hard to find this week at the Walmart Supercenter closest to the retailer’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas...
...The BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, which received emergency approval from the UK regulator on Wednesday, needs to be stored at approximately minus 70 degrees Celsius during transit....
...The free museum’s location in Bentonville, Arkansas, is also the headquarters of the US retailer....
...New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc vs Bruen The court’s conservative majority last week recognised a constitutional right to carry firearms outside the home, striking down a century-old New York...
...The problems revealed in the transit world are anything but “transitory”. To understand this, consider the issues behind that price surge....
...Some have divided their floors into smaller units and are occupied by midsized businesses that have been reluctant to pay for expensive office space with employees increasingly working from home....
...The rise in working from home during the pandemic gave us this natural experiment....
...A shipping container shortage means transit times from Asia to the US have doubled to three months. Container fees have tripled....
...When Pfizer was unable to find appropriate ultra cold storage for its vaccines while in transit, it designed a thermal container itself....
...An Associated Press report suggested that two stores in Texas, one in Utah and another near the company’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas would be among the first....
...The Arkansas-based chain has filed 97 new drone patents with the World Intellectual Property Organisation since July 2018, according to research by accounting firm BDO....
...That plan could be derailed, however, if the company is forced to reclassify its workers in California, its home state and a market that makes up 16 per cent of total rides....
...“The food supply chain is breaking,” the 66-year-old billionaire wrote in full-page adverts published in Sunday’s New York Times, Washington Post and Democrat-Gazette in his home state of Arkansas....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on July 6 2020. @2020 Nikkei Inc....
...Meantime, in Apple’s home state of California, Governor Gavin Newsom continued to tighten restrictions to mitigate the spread of the virus....
...The proceeds — anticipated at about $35m a year — are destined for the local transit authorities....
...Today, the business that grew from a single store in Arkansas, is on track for its fifth straight year of same-store sales growth....
...London is just one of its regulatory battlegrounds, as Uber fights against new rules in its home state of California that would force it to treat drivers as employees, instead of contractors....
...This time the impact is broader and, in a worst-case scenario, could result in a slimmed down version of Dubai Inc....
...He had saved the best for last: the Jakarta Mass Rapid Transit, or MRT....
...In 2007, the pair launched Zimride, a Facebook app focused on long-distance journeys, such as for college students looking to hitch a ride home....
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