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...J Sainsbury was among the biggest fallers on the FTSE 100 on Wednesday after strong grocery sales failed to allay concerns over its struggling general merchandise business....
...Some leaned in a little too far: two shops stocking wizard-related merchandise were forced to change their names after copyright disputes with Warner Bros and later closed....
...His commercial nous, gained from working across grocery, general merchandise and fashion at Tesco, is also expected to help him navigate John Lewis’s limited financing options dictated by its unusual structure...
...General merchandise such as clothing is typically ordered months in advance, leaving retailers less exposed than companies relying on just-in-time delivery....
...Clothing, footwear and general merchandise sales last year were at the highest level since 2017. Less discounting and lower amounts of older stock too help cash flow....
...Roberts said the festive period had been characterised by a return to shops, better availability in both food and general merchandise and a focus on value....
...The Pokémon Company was set up initially to handle the operations of the Pokémon Centre shops in Japan, and now additionally operates the franchise within Asia (except Korea)....
...There were long queues this week outside the event’s official merchandise shop in the city centre, while even modest hotels were charging hundreds of pounds for rooms for the weekend....
...Sainsbury’s said that alongside its latest wage rises it would extend free food during shifts for another six months and additional discounts at Argos, its general merchandise subsidiary....
...She has theories about where the stolen merchandise ends up. Some thieves sell it to nearby bodegas (corner shops) to feed drug habits. Others work in more organised groups and offload it online....
...The most obvious example of this was Argos, the general merchandise seller owned by supermarket chain J Sainsbury....
...Megan Barbero, currently SEC principal deputy general counsel, will take his place....
...shop less, a new report from polling group Morning Consult showed....
...However, the impact in general merchandise was greater....
...But before entering politics, he had a successful business career distributing T-shirts and Teletubbies merchandise to shops. Track the rapid rise of Johnson’s latest choice of chancellor....
...Running online shops on sites such as Kuaishou and Douyin is cheaper than on Taobao and Tmall....
...My last day in Maine, I meet with Peter Drinkwater, proprietor of Winter Harbor’s general store and prominent local realtor, in his shop on Main Street....
...Inflation poses a particular dilemma for stores charging $1 for their merchandise....
...These are less biased to apparel than Pepco and more towards impulse food and general merchandise....
...“The single inventory was vital in 2020, but it is key to our general approach; it offers our online customers not only what we hold in our online stockrooms but the product in the stores....
...More conventionally, the addition of millions of general merchandise items to its third-party marketplace could also help margins, as well as drawing more customers....
...“What Waitrose did before was buy a limited range of general merchandise and stick it in a supermarket shelving context with a few [John Lewis] products spliced in....
...Such theories tend to stall on the group’s £4bn net debt burden and the floorspace overlap between the food and general merchandise businesses, which complicates any break-up....
...In the morning, Simon Franks, the general manager, came to see his first guests in four months, bringing a wicker hamper of breakfast, the weather forecast and some advice on walking routes....
...Sales at Argos, the company’s general merchandise chain, were up 8.4 per cent, helped by strong demand for televisions — it sold a set every three seconds over Black Friday — and gaming consoles....
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