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...Apple removed Meta’s WhatsApp and Threads apps from its online store in China under direction from the country’s internet regulator which cited “national security concerns”....
...His labourers had to collect 500 coconuts a day to receive a wage in Cocos rupees, a currency of Clunies-Ross’s own making and redeemable only at the company store....
...“One factory in Pennsylvania, where I live, is just 10 miles from the store where I was experiencing stock-outs,” Fisher recalls. “Friendshoring is not a panacea.”...
...Co-op’s large convenience store estate, which requires frequent restocking, has left it particularly exposed to the disruption. However, it is continuing to expand its ecommerce operations....
...China, the local owner of the KFC and Pizza Hut brands, are among the multinational groups warning of falling sales as President Xi Jinping’s unwavering zero-Covid policy erodes consumer confidence and chokes...
...Shell chief Ben van Beurden also warned that Europe may need to ration energy this winter, and predicted “significantly” higher prices if Russia chokes off gas supplies....
...Growth was helped by clothing stores, which recorded their highest sales since the start of the pandemic....
...Here’s Sindreu in the Wall Street Journal: Yet the entire artifice of “money” as a universal store of value risks being eroded by the banning of key exports to Russia and boycotts of the kind corporations...
...Its mighty rivers power some of the world’s biggest hydroelectric dams and the Amazon rainforest stores enormous amounts of carbon....
...Investment banks that have raked in record fees on Chinese listings in the US are worried that the regulatory pressure could choke off new IPOs....
...This week, it unveiled a draft cyber security law that would require providers of online services to store sensitive user data locally and hand it over at authorities’ request....
...Williams said he stumbled across the incident on a trip to a nearby convenience store....
...The store manager asked another clerk to call the police....
...Those of NAND chips, which are used to store data, fell about 5 per cent....
...It is unclear how apps in the store are ranked, and some of Apple’s pre-installed apps cannot be deleted from phones....
...There’s only so long you can do it before it chokes everything,” he said....
...In 1969, he was sent to New York to sell sweaters to department stores such as JCPenney and Montgomery Ward. He was entranced....
...But it is no more shocking than using the police to guard grocery stores to ensure orderly access to toilet rolls. And it is better than letting markets freeze up — or shutting them down....
...Conditions are virtually impossible both on the high street (where c200 post office stores remain open), and in travel (all stores of which are essentially shuttered, apart from the hospital outlets (which...
...Complicating the situation is a growth in the use of technology dependent on Korean components, even as it threatens to choke off supply....
...Overall sales at the fashion business rose 4 per cent, helped by adding new stores or increasing the size of existing ones....
...A stuttering start to the year for exports of Swiss watches has put brands on alert, stoking fears that a slowing Chinese economy and political instability in Europe may choke sales growth in the coming...
...But vinyl (actually PVC) records are made from oil and gas, using an energy-intensive process, and transporting them to stores uses more energy than an album whizzing over the internet....
...In the meantime, law enforcement has been able to request data that Apple stores in its iCloud....
...Tej Parikh: An increase in taxes or a notable reduction in economic support could choke off the UK’s economic recovery in 2021....
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