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...Dixon believes Reid’s retaliation resulted in “decades of lost earnings” costing her millions of dollars, according to the suit....
...Automation an automatic choiceJapan Inc has found a new purpose for automation: business continuity in the uncertain era of Covid-19....
...While other retailers are closing stores, the Tennessee-based company is pressing ahead with plans to open 1,000 stores in the coming year — adding to its existing 16,500 store network....
...But Rupesh Parikh, analyst at Oppenheimer, says the company’s real problem is the poor state of Family Dollar stores and points to the risks of a different pricing strategy....
...The company, which runs nearly 15,000 stores across the US under the Family Dollar and Dollar Tree brand, said it now expects full-year earnings to be $4.80 to $5.10 per share....
...Stores sell tail lights and hub caps....
...Flipkart did not bite on that billion-dollar valuation, making a bid of around $850m earlier this month, and then another one north of $900m that was put to shareholders last week....
...Dollar General, which lost a protracted battle with rival Dollar Tree to acquire Family Dollar last year, also said it was targeting a 2 to 4 per cent same-store sales growth over the long term, with comparable...
...Tennessee-based Dollar General, the largest of the country’s cheap-retailing trinity, said that it was prepared to sell up to 700 stores to win regulatory approval for the deal and also pay a $305m termination...
...But, he argues – to my mind, convincingly – the dollar’s role as a store of value has if anything been strengthened by the crisis....
...Next month sees the release of Inside Llewyn Davis....
...In the shade of a huge tree, several dozen members of the Granderson family gathered for a barbecue on a hot Mississippi afternoon....
...“James v UMG Recordings” is a dispute about how much money musicians should receive from digital downloads of their work....
...Last year, Dollar General brought in $10.5bn in sales, dwarfing the 2008 revenues of Family Dollar Stores, its publicly listed US rival, by more than $3bn....
...Durant grew up on his family’s dairy farm north of Paris....
...The company set guidance for December same-store sales of between a 1 per cent decrease and 1 per cent increase, compared to previous expectations of 3-5 per cent growth....
...Shares in North Carolina-based Family Dollar Stores, which has a market capitalisation of $4.8bn, ended 6.1 per cent higher at $30.42 on Monday....
...This month, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts agreed to buy Dollar General, the Tennessee-based discount retailer, for $7bn....
...Bette Davis, one of the biggest stars of the 1950s, moved into film production, but she was a rare exception....
...unfettered access to the online store....
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