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Amazon and Walmart could struggle with new e-commerce ruling in India
Amazon and Walmart will sort for new ways of growing their business in India after the country’s government announced new regulations that could thwart …
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Ford is teaming up with Walmart to test grocery delivery service with self-driving vehicles
Ford Motors is partnering with retail chain Walmart and delivery service Postmates to design a service for delivering goods like groceries using self-driving vehicles, …
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Toys ‘R’ Us Liquidation Opens New Fight For Retailers
The nation’s toy aisles are shaping up for the season as brick-and-mortar retailers cease every front, fighting for customers. Toys ‘R’ Us liquidation has …
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Amazon and Walmart Battle It Out in India
Over the recent weeks, the Indian e-commerce sector seems to have turned into a giant battlefield for behemoths Walmart and Amazon. The opportunities presented …
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Walmart tries to woo Millennials with Jet’s makeover
Two years after Walmart Inc. acquired it for $3.3 billion, Jet is getting a fancy makeover to woo millennial customers. A new shopping experience …
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Big Box Retailers: Have they found a way out of the retail apocalypse yet?
Retail stores are making a bounce back that suggests the retail apocalypse is already over. That was really fast if the stores have by …
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Workers to Deliver Orders on The Way Home – A New Strategy for Walmart E-commerce
In the current scenario, home-delivery is the most viable option people tend to prefer. This system has ramped up the market of online shopping …
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Costco, The Success Story of largest Employer in front-line services
Everyone has had the experience of shopping in a big-box store such as Wal-Mart or a fast-food chain like McDonald’s and seeing them staffed …
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Google’s OnHub Wireless Router Promises Faster Wi-Fi and Simpler Setup
Google on Tuesday announced that it’s making a Wi-Fi router designed to make it as easy as possible for users to stay connected to the …
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Wal-Mart plans its own $50 per year shipping service to take on Amazon Prime
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer plans to test a new unlimited shipping service for online shoppers this summer that will be priced lower than …
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Facebook increased contractors’ minimum wages to $15 per hour
Popular social media company, Facebook Inc. recently raised minimum wages of Menlo’s cafeteria staff and janitors. The company has announced on Wednesday to raise …
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Obama Lays-Out Carbon-reducing, Energy Efficiency Proposal at Silicon Valley Wal-Mart on Friday
At the first-ever Presidential stop, on a fund raising trip President Obama urged U.S. businesses to curb down emissions to reduce environmental threats that …
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Starbucks Enters the Energy Drink Market
Starbucks is about to bump heads into the Red Bull. Yes, Starbucks is eager to dip its influential, if not omnipresent coffee mug now into the $8 billion energy drink category.
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Over 70 Kmart, Sears Closings to Take Place
At the end of 2011, Sears announced it was closing as many as 120 underperforming Sears and Kmart locations after same-store sales slipped 5.2 percent in the eight weeks prior to Christmas. It’s how many Sears and Kmart stores will end up closing, and whether or not Sears Corp. will rebound from this. Sears and Kmart merged in 2005, and even though they have more stores now than they did seven years ago, the merger hasn’t helped in boosting sales.
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Distribution Warehouses Under Pressure for Temporary Staffing
The warehousing sector of the supply chain industry is under pressure recently after a series of investigative reporting has uncovered the tenuous situation of thousands of temporary employees. These employees, hired by staffing firms that are several times removed from the big box retailers like Amazon and Walmart, even though these employees unload and move the products sold in these stores. This is a just a small snapshot of what is going on at these distribution warehouses and in these temporary warehouse jobs.
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Walmart: Low Prices, Big Numbers
2.1 million. That's how many people work at Walmart. It is the largest retailer in the world, and the largest private employer in the world. Called “associates” by Walmart, the sheer number of employees is just one of the many statistics that illustrate the monstrosity that is Walmart. In this month's ‘Numberliciously Good’, Industry Leaders pays homage to the retailer that has probably provided a lot of our holiday presents and decor this season.
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How Did Businesses Do From the Black Friday/Cyber Monday Craze?
Black Friday and Cyber Monday (and probably Thanksgiving now) are three of the biggest shopping holidays of the year. In fact, Black Friday got its name from the fact that this one Friday brought many businesses out of the red and into the black. So, just how did businesses do this year at the start of the 2011 holiday shopping season?
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World’s biggest retailer, Walmart, tests online grocery delivery
Presenting itself as the newest competitor to the online retailing giant Amazon, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest chain of retail outlets, has set …
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POSCO: The new Metal Heads in India
Monday turned out to be a great day for POSCO in India. The Environment Ministry of India has finally approved POSCO’s plans to set …
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Destination Africa! Record $44 billion M & A deals over 2010.
They stood strong, survived and even thrived through the global financial crisis. Now, having set a record high of $44 billion worth of mergers …
