Hints and tips:
...Including the latest writedown, Dollar Tree has taken $5bn in impairments on Family Dollar over the past five years. Dollar Tree said it was a victim of the macro environment....
...But Dollar Tree has suffered some hits in the past few years....
...Dollar Tree has long sold what the industry calls consumables in its Family Dollar chain but it has recently expanded its groceries offering in Dollar Tree outlets too....
...Weak performance by companies such as Coca-Cola, Target, Walgreens Boots, Dollar Tree and Dollar General are a big part of that story — and a trend worth watching, given that the strong consumer is such...
...A sign of the times, the fastest growing brick and mortar stores in the US are discount retailers Dollar General, Dollar Tree and Five Below....
...In 2020, the British energy group BP pledged to decarbonise its portfolio, cutting oil and gas production by 40 per cent from 2019 levels by 2030 and channelling billions of dollars into wind and solar projects...
...Though indigenous people in Malaysia had used hardened rubber tree sap to fashion implements for hundreds of years before, the story of modern plastics starts with the invention of the first semi-synthetic...
...Additional help by Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer....
...The marketing dream of a Messi v Ronaldo World Cup final is still alive, at least for the next few hours....
...Both Dollar General and Dollar Tree thrive mostly on selling low-ticket items and basics to shoppers on a tight budget....
...“For 35 years, Dollar Tree has managed through inflationary periods to maintain the everything-for-one-dollar philosophy that distinguished Dollar Tree,” the company said....
...Discount group Dollar General fell 11 per cent, Dollar Tree tumbled 14 per cent and Costco was down 12.5 per cent....
...The festivities to mark an astonishing and unlikely-to-be-repeated 70 years on the throne next month include parties, parades, tree plantings and a competition to invent a new “platinum pudding”....
...Dollar Tree, similarly, has added Dollar Tree Plus sections in hundreds of stores, stocking items costing well over $1....
...This is not just a recent phenomenon: Adam quotes Mark Jones, former director of London’s V&A, on Richard Wallace (1818-90), founder of the Wallace Collection, who “was an outsider, because of being illegitimate...
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. You can build it, but will they come?...
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...But we both worked with Lionel Barber for a long time. He’s now retired as editor....
...Rob is currently developing a new machine that would spin around each tree with a sickle blade, trimming its tips. And the balsam firs are now fertilised by drones that hover across the vast forest....
...‘Perfect scenario’ Those look like V-shaped projections, Andrew Glenn thought to himself....
...A US judge has dealt a blow to Citigroup’s efforts to recover hundreds of millions of dollars mistakenly sent to a group of asset managers, ruling the recipients are allowed to keep the erroneous payments...
...Thursday: Earnings from the trillion-dollar club with iPhone maker Apple, online retailer Amazon and Google’s Alphabet reporting....
...years — and 7 per cent at Dollar Tree....
...“People have been exchanging rumours under the buttonwood tree as long as there have been markets....
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