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Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, said on Friday it was selling its retail operations in Argentina to South American supermarket chain owner Grupo de Narváez, pulling back as the country
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Coty posted a surprise quarterly profit on Friday as demand for its beauty products and fragrances recovered from lockdown lows and the cosmetics maker kept a tight lid on costs, sending its shares 17
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Uncertainty around Election Day has put a crimp into online shopping.
Consumers have spent less money on the web this week than experts had anticipated, according to a study, raising concerns that
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Nearly 60 percent of businesses that closed nationwide during the COVID-19 pandemic are never reopening again, according to a report. The vast majority of those businesses are restaurants and gift stores, according to Yelp’s Local Economic Impact Report, a monthly survey of business listings. As of Aug. 31, 163,735 businesses were listed as closed, with …
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The coronavirus pandemic may not damage the global economy as badly as previously feared, an influential group says. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Wednesday that it now expects worldwide gross domestic product — a key measure of economic health — to drop by 4.5 percent this year, down from its June forecast …
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US retail sales climbed less than expected last month, another signal that the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic has slowed. Retailers and food-service merchants raked in $537.5 billion in August, a modest 0.6 percent increase from the prior month that came in below experts’ estimates for a 1 percent rise, the US Census Bureau …
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Hobby Lobby is raising the minimum wage for its full-time workers to $17 an hour ahead of the holiday season. The arts-and-crafts chain will implement the permanent raise Oct. 1, making it the latest big retailer to increase staffers’ pay amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Oklahoma-based company said it last hiked its minimum full-time wage …
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US Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican and a China hawk, asked for a national security review of plans by GNC to sell itself to Harbin Pharmaceutical Group. Rubio made the request in a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. The department leads the inter-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. GNC has said …
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Off-price clothing retailer Century 21 — a mecca for generations of fashion-minded bargain hunters — filed for bankruptcy on Thursday and said it will shutter all of its stores for good, blaming insurance companies that failed to pay up during the pandemic. Known for deeply discounted designer goods, the department store has been a retail …
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CVC Capital Partners and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board are exploring a sale or initial public offering of Petco that could value it at $6 billion, including debt, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday. The firms are interviewing potential advisers while reviewing strategic options, with formal efforts around a sale or IPO not expected to kick off …