Retail News
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Japan used to have the market cornered on unusual vending machine practices. The rest of the world is catching up though and we are going to explore the evidence for that.
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Supermarket giant Tesco announced a second drop in annual profits in a row on Wednesday, leaving Britain's biggest retailer hoping that recent expansion into India and China can offset weakness in Europe.
In the Media
by Ben Perry (AFP)
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Geneva -
A landmark challenge to Australia's plain-packaging law for cigarettes and cigars at the WTO could have vast implications for how governments square the rules of trade with radical public health measures.
In the Media
by Jonathan Fowler (AFP)
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During the GameStop’s Investor Day 2014, the company announced its plans to close 120 stores while focusing more on the mobile device market.
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If you ran a supermarket in, say, 1960 then you had a problem. The number of different consumer goods kept increasing but how could you accurately price every item at checkout?
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London -
Supermarket giant Tesco announced a second drop in annual profits in a row on Wednesday, leaving Britain's biggest retailer hoping that recent expansion into India and China can offset weakness in Europe.
In the Media
by Ben Perry (AFP)
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Geneva -
Attempts by tobacco-producing nations to sink a landmark law in Australia requiring plain packaging for cigarettes and cigars gained pace Tuesday as Cuba and the Dominican Republic stepped up their fight at the World Trade Organization.
In the Media
by AFP
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Washington -
US retail sales leaped higher in March, giving further evidence of stronger economic activity after a particularly brutal winter, government data showed Monday.Retail and food services sales surged 1.1 percent from February to $433.
In the Media
by AFP
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Athens -
Police in Athens scuffled with protesters opposed to shops opening on Sunday, a week before Orthodox Easter.The incident occurred on the capital's main shopping street.
In the Media
by AFP
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London -
Chinese conglomerate Sanpower has agreed to buy a majority stake in British department store House of Fraser in a deal worth £480 million (578 million euros, $800 million), according to a joint statement.
In the Media
by AFP
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New York -
Wal-Mart announced Thursday a deal with organic foods pioneer Wild Oats to sell discounted organic products in its US stores, a move expected to shake up the booming sector.
In the Media
by AFP
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New York -
Online retail giant eBay said Thursday it had reached a deal with activist investor Carl Icahn, who had demanded a spinoff of the payment division PayPal.
In the Media
by AFP
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London -
High street retailer Marks & Spencer posted rising fourth-quarter sales on Thursday, boosted by strong performances for clothing and food, and also at its international division. Sales climbed 1.
In the Media
by AFP
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New York -
US retail giant Wal-Mart Stores plans to add 50 new wholesale stores in India as it seeks growth in a key market where it has been unable to launch retail stores.
In the Media
by AFP
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Sydney -
David Jones announced Wednesday it intends to recommend a takeover offer from South African retailer Woolworths that values the Australian department store operator at about $2 billion.
In the Media
by AFP
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London -
British online takeaway delivery service Just Eat launched on the London Stock Exchange on Thursday in a partial flotation which valued it at £1.5 billion ($2.5 billion, 1.8 billion euros).
In the Media
by AFP
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London -
Mobile phone giant Vodafone on Thursday announced plans to open 150 shops in Britain over the next year, creating 1,400 jobs in the process.The plan forms part of a £1.0 billion ($1.7 billion, 1.
In the Media
by AFP
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London -
Kingfisher, Europe's biggest home-improvements retailer, announced on Thursday that it was in exclusive talks to buy Mr Bricolage to build upon its already strong presence in France.
In the Media
by AFP
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Frankfurt -
One of Amazon's key sites in Germany was the target of fresh walkouts by staff on Monday in an long-running wage dispute. The services sector union Verdi has called for morning stoppages at Amazon's logistics centre in Leipzig.
In the Media
by AFP
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London -
Chinese businessman Yuan Yafei has launched a surprise takeover bid for British department store chain House of Fraser worth £450 million ($748 million, 544 million euros), media reports said on Sunday.
In the Media
by AFP
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Basel -
Switzerland's recent vote to curtail immigration from the European Union could seriously impact the Alpine country's booming watch trade, industry insiders warned this week.
In the Media
by Nathalie Olof-Ors (AFP)
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Washington -
The world's largest retailer Walmart has sued credit card giant Visa for more than $5 billion for conspiring with banks to fix fees that merchants pay for accepting Visa card payments.In the suit filed this week in Arkansas, where Walmart is based, th...
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London -
Kingfisher, Europe's biggest home-improvements retailer, said Tuesday that it will return cash to shareholders after annual profits rose by a quarter, sending its share price surging.London-listed Kingfisher said in a results statement that it would re...
In the Media
by AFP
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Britain's Takeover Panel has granted Dixons Retail <DXNS.L> and Carphone Warehouse <CPW.L> an eight-week extension to their negotiations for a possible 4 billion-pound ($6.6 billion) merger.
In the Media
by James Davey (Reuters)
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Canadian retail trade in January rose by a higher-than-expected 1.3 percent from December, partially recovering from the extreme weather-related decline the previous month, Statistics Canada data indicated on Friday.
In the Media
by Reuters
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Kano -
South African retailer Shoprite on Thursday opened its first outlet in northern Nigeria, as part of an aggressive expansion drive and defying wider concerns about security in the region.
In the Media
by Aminu Abubakar (AFP)
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Stockholm -
Swedish furniture maker Ikea on Thursday recalled nearly three million baby bed canopies worldwide due to a potential danger of strangulation."We have had some reports of young children getting entangled in these canopies," Ikea spokeswoman Ylva Magnus...
In the Media
by AFP
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London -
Fans are increasingly willing to pay for digital music through subscription streaming services rather than downloading it illegally for free, according to an upbeat report published on Tuesday.Revenues from services such as Spotify or Deezer rose 51 pe...
In the Media
by AFP
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London -
British supermarket chain Sainsbury's revealed Tuesday that sales slumped in its fourth quarter, breaking a nine-year run of underlying growth, and warned over the challenging outlook.Sales excluding fuel on a like-for-like basis -- stripping out the ...
In the Media
by AFP
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Bargain store chains are flooding into North American malls and shopping centers like never before, upstaging old mainstays like J.C.
In the Media
by Tim McLaughlin (Reuters)
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TJ Hughes department store in Liverpool, England
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A young girl looks up at a toy sales display in a JC Penney store during Black Friday sales in New York
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Journalist Caitlin Kelly provides a detailed account of the day to day life of someone working in retail, in her 2011 book entitled, "Malled - My unintentional career in retail," published by Portfolio - Penguin, New York, NY.
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The store Desigual in Spain
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Most Americans don’t have a travel bucket list, according to a new survey.
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Shoppers shopping at Ikea
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Topshop is a subsidiary of Arcadia in the U.K.
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A Target store
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A Currys store in Northern Ireland.
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A Mac's Convenience store
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The NorthPark centre mall in Dallas
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