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...Then there is the fast-growing online grocery space, which is dominated by Walmart and Amazon. The two control about half of total digital sales, said eMarketer....
...About two years before his 2017 appointment as chief executive of Uber, Dara Khosrowshahi, then head of travel group Expedia, turned down the chance to invest in the fast-growing but scandal-tainted ride-hailing...
...The grocery market is highly competitive, with not just utility and wage costs but shoplifting on the rise....
...Those could fade fast in the second and third quarters, especially as labour market fragilities worsen. “Welcome to the recession,” wrote Ian Shepherdson of Pantheon Macroeconomics....
...Apple’s iPhone-focused ad business is also growing fast. These sorts of cases are highly complex and take years to resolve, so it is with real trepidation that we offer an early impression....
...Fast-forward to the present: Albertsons is controlled by Cerberus and about to sell the company to rival Kroger for nearly $25bn....
...In September, the FT revealed that the iPhone maker plans to nearly double the workforce in its fast-growing digital advertising business....
...Online apparel retailers fare worst, with a McKinsey survey finding that returns stood at about a quarter of sales. The survey found that reintegrating returns was not a high priority....
...We can actually have two hands to carry our groceries or keep our kids from running out into the street, or whatever it is we’re trying to do. So that would be a huge win....
...Signs of the economic squeeze are coming thick and fast....
...But with access to the consumer goods group’s vast global distribution network, the brand expanded fast, becoming one of Unilever’s largest....
...Cheap fares kept the ride-hailing app on the road through its worst years, despite accusations of aggressive rule-breaking, a belligerent founder and friction with drivers....
...Those that are younger are not talking about groceries when they use the same phrase. They are talking about housing costs....
...Analysts say that using WhatsApp with JioMart will allow it to tap the fast-growing market for online transactions, a promising new revenue stream....
...Reliance Industries announced that Google planned to invest $4.5bn into its fast-growing digital business Jio Platforms, joining a dozen other international investors including Facebook that have poured...
...Silicon Valley private equity firm Silver Lake has agreed to invest Rs56.6bn ($750m) in Reliance Jio, less than two weeks after Facebook took a $5.7bn stake in Mukesh Ambani’s fast-growing Indian digital...
...Instacart, a competitor that specialises in groceries, said it would be doing the same, after successfully testing the idea....
...It's growing really fast....
...Between Athene and two other listed affiliates, as well as its institutional funds, Apollo has built up a lending operation that manages $200bn of assets and is still growing fast....
...Mr Loeb’s Third Point hedge fund, which invested $3.5bn in a 1.25 per cent stake in the Swiss group, said it was not moving fast enough to shed its underperforming and non-strategic businesses, as well as...
...But he cautions that “like any period of fast innovation there will be winners and losers”....
...And what about the paper and polymer banknotes we once used to pay for bigger items, such as petrol or groceries? We are fast becoming a cashless society....
...The economic calendar is nothing to sneeze at (all times London): 07.00: Germany industrial output07.00: Germany imports, exports and trade balance08.00: Kantar Worldpanel UK grocery prices10.00: eurozone...
...The economic calendar is a mixed bag (all times London). 08.00: UK Kantar Worldpanel grocery market share08.30: Sweden consumer price index09.30: UK CPI, producer price index10.00: Germany ZEW economic sentiment...
...Instead people use electronic payment systems, such as the smartphone app WeChat, to pay for everyday items, from bus fares to the weekly grocery shop....
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