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...a greater number of players in crucial markets in order to avoid another supply chain crisis, in this Foreign Policy feature....
...By the time Sam Walton opened his first Wal-mart in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962, his playbook to build a global retail giant was already drafted....
...Last month Family Mart, Japan’s second largest convenience store chain, began introducing shelf-packing automatons that have finally mastered the vital job of ensuring that the labels of drink bottles all...
...Yet, as Charles Fishman wrote in The Wal-Mart Effect in 2006, Walmart derives all of its impact from us, “from our willingness to open our wallets, just a few dollars at a time . . ....
...Last year, Tesla promised to store information collected in China in local data centres, a significant blow to its global data gathering efforts critical to research and development....
...The test is required for foreign companies like E-Mart, a chain of markets and minimarts....
...“This isn’t a grocery store where you can throw out spoiled produce. It’s a financial institution where people have deposits and loans....
...Espen Barth Eide, a former Labour foreign minister told the Financial Times after a centre-left victory for Norway’s Jonas Gahr Store yesterday....
...India, allowing foreign single-brand companies to sell directly to consumers....
...(WSJ) Shaking down Main Street Goldman Sachs has historically entangled itself with the financial plights of governments and large corporations....
...A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from forcing Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their US app stores just hours before the companies would have been required to implement the ban....
...Amazon issued a similar directive but then retracted it, calling it an error. According to its privacy policy, the company stores American user data on servers in the US or Singapore....
...Mitsubishi Chemical has hired Jean-Marc Gilson as its new chief, the first appointment of a foreign boss in Japan since the 2018 arrest and ousting of Carlos Ghosn....
...As experts from the Rand Corporation noted in a testimony to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission in 2019 “official propaganda has relentlessly promoted Xi in a manner that many have compared...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on December 16, 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...A local subsidiary of Walmart in China paid about $60,000 to a store landlord for “government relationship consulting services”, as well as permit costs....
...Walmex, which this month released moderate sales growth in August with same-store sales up 5.9 per cent, but below the market consensus of 6.8 per cent, has nearly 2,400 stores in Mexico....
...First, higher wages can make employees more productive — Wal-Mart’s recent wage raises were justified on these grounds....
...As a result, consumers are left with too many options to choose from. “This is typical of Japan Inc....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on June 18, 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Starting in February 2018, the company will shorten its name from “Wal-mart Stores, Inc.” to “Walmart Inc.”....
...The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was also once just an obscure statute, until companies such as Wal Mart started to face nine figure compliance costs....
...Still, with the country’s mini marts and convenience stores poised for aggressive growth around the country this year — CP All Group is set to operate 11,000 stores by the end of the year — changing people...
...Instead, he said the “biggest stumbling block to an approach like this” would likely be retailers like Wal-Mart....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on August 22 2018. ©2018 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
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