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...Tesco, for instance, has installed 500 “smart screens” at entrances to its connected stores through a partnership with JCDecaux....
...US president Joe Biden has persuaded Walmart, UPS and FedEx to extend their working hours to ease the country’s supply chain woes....
...But Mr Donohue hedged his comment by adding that the business group’s members would not “give away the store right up front”....
...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....
...A month after a shooting at a Texas store, Walmart announced it would stop selling ammunition used in handguns and military-style weapons, and asked customers to stop bringing guns into its stores....
...After initially closing stores through 3/27, US Apple stores are now closed ‘indefinitely’....
...Since January 22nd, approximately half of the luxury stores have remained closed and traffic in the remaining stores is reported to be down c.-90%....
...Two grandsons of Walmart founder Sam Walton have become key investors in cycle clothing maker Rapha, following a deal that values the company at £200m....
...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....
...Walmart, the world’s biggest retailer, dropped 4.7 per cent to $75.24. Wholesaler Costco fell 7.2 per cent to $167.11, while discount store Target jettisoned 5.1 per cent to $52.61....
...The biggest activist fight — Nelson Peltz v Procter & Gamble — was only recently settled, two months after a shareholder vote....
...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....
...Known internally as “Area 120,” executives Don Harrison and Bradley Horowitz will reportedly manage the new scheme....
...I shrug my shoulders and say, why don’t they sell to Walmart?”...
...Lobbyists for Amazon rivals such as Walmart and Best Buy have long argued that its business is built on a tax “loophole”....
...In developed markets, the ageing hulks operated by Walmart, Metro, Carrefour and Tesco are undergoing a midlife crisis, as many staple products migrate from store shelves to shoppers’ laptops....
...In other earnings news, Ross Stores, operator of discount apparel retail stores, met analysts’ expectations, as profits for the third quarter rose 11 per cent on higher sales and improved margins....
...The top ten was completed by True Religion, a denim specialist; Vera Bradley, which sells colourful bags; Birks & Mayors, a jeweller; and Fairway, an upscale supermarket....
...Selections by Andrew Clark … POP Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital, by Lloyd Bradley, Serpent’s Tail, RRP£12.99 Bradley’s richly detailed account of black culture in London...
...“The customer is not about just cheap,” Mike Duke, chief executive of Walmart, the nation’s ultimate low-cost shopping destination, said last month....
...Sam’s Club, which targets both small businesses and families, has expanded its offering of non-perishable items, which now includes Campbell’s V-8 juice, Kellogg’s snack bars, dried fruit and popcorn, as...
...The communist-controlled state of Kerala said recently it plans to restrict store development....
...India’s “mom and pop” stores are just as likely to be put to the wall by Reliance as by Wal-Mart....
...The economic crisis proved the trigger for a renewed burst of reforms under the Congress government of P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then finance minister, Manmohan Singh....
...Wal-Mart has also launched football-themed marketing events at stores with significant Hispanic customers, with 155 stores participating in events that include setting up Astroturf football fields in the...
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