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...Private equity tycoon Josh Harris, who participated in the Chelsea auction, was also said to have shown an interest in the Broncos....
...On Tuesday, 19 companies including Walmart, McDonald’s, Nestlé and Union Pacific raised more than $35bn of debt, according to strategists at Bank of America....
...Biden has a lot of friends on Wall Street (and so does his running mate Kamala Harris). Top dealmakers were by his side before the coronavirus crisis....
...Walmart and Kroger decided last year to stop selling guns to people under 21....
...“With Amazon and Walmart fighting it’s a bit like the elephants fighting,” he quipped. “The mice get trampled.”...
...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....
...Welch, Former Chairman and CEO, General Electric Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize-winner, Vice Chairman of IHS Markit Manufacturing Jobs Initiative Andrew Liveris, The Dow Chemical Company Bill Brown, Harris...
...Walmart has looked to discount its prices, even for organic groceries, to retain market share....
...However, Whole Foods has been unprepared to deal with the combination of deflationary pressures in fresh food and rising competition — both from large rivals such as Walmart and Kroger and from smaller ones...
...(The Atlantic) London skyline 1616 v 2016 Juxtaposed images sketched 400 years apart show the change in the city’s skyline from the banks of the Thames. (The Guardian)...
...Among the many tradeoffs emphasised by economists are guns v butter, public v private, efficiency v equity, quality v quantity or cost and short-term v long-term performance....
...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....
...(FT) Murdoch v Trump: Fox and The Hair Donald Trump has gone to war with an unlikely enemy....
...Walmart lost nearly a tenth of its $200bn market value after issuing a dire warning that investment in ecommerce and wages would hit profits over the next few years....
...In recent years, yield-starved investors have sought shares that pay hefty dividends, a point of attraction for stocks such as McDonald’s, Walmart and Exxon....
...(NYT) A moment in retail Amazon eclipsed Walmart to become the largest US retailer by market capitalisation after posting an unexpected quarterly profit and revenues that easily surpassed Wall Street expectations...
...(FT) Walmart ditches assault rifles The world’s largest retailer will stop stocking AR-15s and other so-called modern sporting rifles when it resets its stores with autumn inventory....
...Separately, at its Harris Teeter subsidiary in the southeast US shoppers can order online and pick up their purchases at a store....
...In the meantime, the company is laying the groundwork for a European launch, after hiring Mary Carol Harris, formerly Visa Europe’s director of mobile, last month....
...But the real foretaste of the future – and digital hell – is with companies such as Walmart and Amazon, he claims....
...Last year Cerberus lost out in an auction for Harris Teeter Supermarkets to Kroger, which paid $2.4bn for the grocery chain....
...It held its own versus Walmart at one end, and Whole Foods at the other....
...Kroger occupies the grocery middle market between high-end Whole Foods and low-price retailers led by Walmart....
...Phyllis Harris, chief compliance officer at Walmart US, said: “We are pleased that this resolves all of these issues raised by the government.”...
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