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...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...“The last car I bought, just to put things in perspective, was a Mercedes V-Class, to put all the kids and the dog in it.” Our main course gone, Collardi asks if we can see the dessert menu....
...Henry V....
...Marketers are increasingly “asking retailers to prove” how much value is added by such advertising, says Paul Frampton, global president of digital marketing consultancy Control v Exposed....
...We just saw the FTC take on Walmart in a new case....
...In fact, he’s the first American president since Herbert Hoover to lose the White House, the House and the Senate in just four years....
...US president Joe Biden has persuaded Walmart, UPS and FedEx to extend their working hours to ease the country’s supply chain woes....
...Hungary is the only EU member to have approved both the Chinese-made Sinopharm and Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines....
...“The economic damage that he inflicted by botching the pandemic response means he will be the first president since Herbert Hoover to actually lose jobs . . . that’s a long time, people,” he added....
...Bare-faced citizens are busting their way into Walmart and picking fights at mini-marts....
...“Republicans who choose inaction in the face of these historic economic and health crises will be taking the same misguided path as Herbert Hoover,” he said....
...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....
...(Billy Nauman) US chiefs find their voice on gun violence It is 23 years since Walmart banned a Sheryl Crow album that featured lyrics about children killing each other “with a gun they bought at the Walmart...
...Also, US regulators rewrite the Volcker rule, Facebook launches a new privacy tool pilot and Walmart sues Tesla over solar panel fires....
...The pair's first target: ecommerce, where rivals Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart dominate. (FT) Is AI the future of call centres?...
...(FT) Walmart v Amazon Few retailers are coping better with the relentless rise of Amazon than the country’s largest retailer Walmart....
...These factors mean that what was supposed to be a V-shaped trajectory in AxJ would look more U-shaped....
...If there’s a V-shaped recovery on the horizon “the market probably buys the EPS downgrade, assuming that the disruption is eventually contained.”...
...If you missed it, this long read by our media correspondent Anna Nicolaou charts the drama of The People v Harvey Weinstein trial....
...Walmart’s like-for-like US sales rose 4.2 per cent in the three months to the end of January and that’s powered a nice bump in its shares today....
...Spencer Fung, chief executive of Li & Fung, which helps US retailers including Walmart and Kohl’s source their goods from factories around the world, said that while “a lot of people are desperate to move...
...The day ahead US retail earnings Investors are set to gain more insight into the US retail landscape with the earnings results of JCPenney, Nordstrom and Walmart on Thursday....
...But many portfolio managers are unfazed, happy to hoover up the billions of dollars worth of securities that finance corporate takeovers....
...Nevertheless, in the mid-20th century, monster dams such as the Hoover seemed the answer to the country’s grievous lack of water....
...It’s an apt name for the Supreme Court’s latest terrible decision, the 5-4 ruling in Janus v AFSCME, which will defund what is left of America’s union movement....
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