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...Weekend plans are often waylaid by my inability to walk past a charity shop, just in case a gem hides in its box of Mrs Mills LPs....
...He led wildly successful deals for specialised consumer companies like National Vision and sporting goods store Academy Sports....
...Over the past 15 years, the company has opened more than 40 stores, which sell luxury Italian food and wine, across the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East....
...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....
...“The balance of power is shifting to the Middle East in private markets.”...
...He added that while initial uptake of Pop Mart characters was quicker in east and south-east Asian countries, where the group is also opening outlets, ultimately “our products don’t have national borders...
...Twenty pieces from Fisher’s collection are so valuable he stores them in a fireproof box....
...It was the number-one paid app in the App Store for a time and just the beginning of the pop culture dynasty’s gift for converting its celebrity and social media reach into financial gains....
...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 . . ....
...Passing the needs test would have allowed E-Mart to run its own stores in Vietnam, but the test is “totally opaque”, Burke said....
...Two modules stacked as a sideboard, with capacity for about 400 LPs, starts at £579....
...H Mart, the Asian grocery store chain, reported $1.5bn in sales last year, with 102 locations across the country....
...RS genessausage.com Goldhahn & Sampson, Berlin This north-east Berlin neighbourhood store heaves with pastas, pickles, preserves, tinned fish and bottled sauces (Hellmann’s mayonnaise and Colman’s mustard...
...asks Lucas Nicholson, founder of Novel Mart, the playful merchandise brand born last summer....
...The greatest success may be Don Peebles, a university dropout who parlayed a relationship with Washington mayor Marion Barry into an east coast property empire....
...You can see this on trulli, where many have a spherical sun on the roof and doors often face east, towards the sun....
...So Taufan joined 140 people, including some of his neighbours, who chipped in a total of about Rp550m ($40,000) to open a 212 Mart in East Jakarta in late 2018....
...Smart reads Gen Y plays with ‘FIRE’ Millennials are blamed for killing a lot of things — department stores, diamonds, the housing market and even napkins....
...The banana on the cover of the 1967 debut album by The Velvet Underground was an image so simple and so suggestive – especially on early editions of the LP, where the banana could be peeled open to reveal...
...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....
...Sumit Rajpal, who oversees Goldman’s global financial services investment practice, and Andrew Wolff, the head of Europe, Middle East and Africa, will takeover the unit....
...The shop near the Cayce Homes projects in east Nashville is a lifeline for the neighbourhood, she says....
...Ahrendts, the former chief executive of luxury fashion group Burberry, had led Apple’s retail and online stores for the past five years. She will be replaced by Deirdre O’Brien....
...Japan’s Seven & i Holdings plans to have 1,000 7-Eleven stores in Vietnam by 2027, and Thailand’s B’s Mart chain is aiming for 3,000 locations....
...Yet as I ambled around the town on a sunny midsummer day, I found funky stores selling old LPs, an Indian lawyer who exulted in the “quality of life” in his adopted home, Chinese tourists by the busload...
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