Hints and tips:
...Consider Apple’s app store, where independent developers list their apps for consumers to buy....
...This award-winning contemporary Chinese restaurant refers to 32 Mott Street in New York, said to be the location of the city’s first Chinese convenience store, in the area now known as Chinatown....
...Morrisons’ wholesale business, which supplies convenience stores and filling stations, could also be expanded by acquisition....
...Clearly Apple is the main target, but an old West Coast alliance of convenience has also been allowed to expire....
...Popshop’s Li was spurred to reboot the shopping channel for the social-media era after attending South by Southwest in Austin in 2016....
...Two things to start: Canadian convenience store group Couche-Tard has approached France’s Carrefour about a takeover in a deal that would combine two retail groups jointly worth more than $50bn....
...The town finally has a proper barbecue spot, Convenience West, praised as “a work of art” by (really) the barbecue editor of Texas Monthly magazine....
...“This concept brings together the best of two great brands to rethink convenience and redefine the way America shops for food.”...
...No one denies that there are benefits — efficiency and convenience — to having only two major mobile operating systems and standards....
...The economic calendar for Monday is three parts global, one part local (all times Hong Kong): 11.30: Thailand customs-based imports, exports and trade balance15.00: Japan convenience store sales15.00: Malaysia...
...The economic calendar is coasting to the weekend (all times Hong Kong): 12.00: Malaysia consumer price index15.00: Japan convenience store sales16.00: Taiwan export orders...
...store sales16.00: Taiwan export orders...
...In Tokyo convenience store chain FamilyMart Uni rose as much as 6.7 per cent after it announced it would ally with discount chain store Don Quijote, transferring holdings in its supermarket to the latter...
...It failed to anticipate the rise of local convenience stores. Tesco and its ilk suffered their own clairvoyance outage when they underestimated the impact of German-owned discounters Aldi and Lidl....
...That is despite the tough economics of the convenience store market. And, if proof were needed, 30-odd Budgens stores (not in Booker’s stable) went into administration this month....
...Today’s economic calendar is light (Hong Kong times) 09.30: Reserve Bank of Australia September meeting minutes09.30: Australia Q2 house price index15.00: Japan August convenience store sales...
...Here is today’s economic calendar, which is on the light side (Hong Kong times): 08.30: Taiwan July unemployment rate13.00: Japan July supermarket sales15.00: Japan July Convenience store sales16.00: Taiwan...
...A stickier issue is long-term growth at that convenience store unit. Almost all of its growth has come from new stores. Profit per store is stagnant....
...For decades, the two men had enjoyed close ties as Mr Suzuki built the world’s biggest convenience store chain....
...Unlike peers in the country, BGF is the only convenience store pure play, and has much higher asset turnover and cash cycle than its rivals....
...sales, convenience store sales16.00: Taiwan April export orders16.20: Taiwan balance of payments current account balance19.30: Sri Lanka central bank policy decision...
...Seven & i Holdings, the Japanese operator of 7-11 convenience stores is among the worst performers on the Nikkei amid a tussle over proposed management changes....
...store sales16.00: Taiwan March export orders...
...But while hypermarkets suffered, convenience stores grew by 13.2 per cent across China, and e-commerce in the world’s largest digital marketplace maintained its strong momentum, with a growth rate that exceeded...
...store business and then become group chief executive....
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