Thursday, January 31, 2013

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BEST, MSRTC take retail route to save on fuel cost
Indian Express
With the Centre having hiked the price of diesel for bulk consumers, the cash-strapped Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking and the state transport utility are, for the first time ever, planning to send their fleet to petrol ...
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Global retailers like Wal-Mart, Tesco, Carrefour and others not buying India story
Economic Times
Four months have passed since the government braved intense opposition to allow foreign supermarkets to enter India, but it has not received a single investment proposal so far as global retailers play wait-and-watch and seek more clarity about the ...
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Economic Times
Amazon.com Goes Down, Takes Short Break From Retail Biz
Wired
That prompted this zinger from Netflix Engineer Adrian Cockcroft Thursday as the outage was happening, "Maybe the guy who broke the ELB got moved sideways to a new job in Amazon retail." At least part of Amazon's own site now runs on AWS, but it's ...
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Wired
Can Retail Stocks Survive the Death of the Shopping Mall?
Money Morning
As consumers do less shopping in physical stores and more shopping on the Internet, retail stocks will need to evolve or face extinction. And if tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen is right, they don't have much time. In an interview with PandoDaily's ...
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EU News
Numerous barriers to the Single Market in Retail were identified in the Commission's Retail Market Monitoring Report1, the European Parliament's Report "Towards a more efficient and fair retail sector"2 and the Country Specific recommendations issued ...
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EU News
What's bringing Retail Investors Back into Stocks? - Real Time Insight
NASDAQ
It appears that the retail investors are finally warming up to stocks. Per data from Lipper, U.S. stock mutual funds had inflows of $6.8 billion in the first three weeks of 2013-largest inflow since 2001. Investors breathed a sigh of relief when the ...
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Amazon E-Retail Down For Hour On Thursday
InformationWeek SMB (blog)
For about an hour starting around 11:30 a.m. Pacific, the Amazon.com retail site was inaccessible to customers. Attempts to access the site were met with a http://1.1 message on an otherwise white and unadorned screen. The site appeared to be operating ...
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Best Buy, Sears Canada slash jobs as pressure builds ahead of Target arrival
National Post
TORONTO — Two of Canada's biggest retailers, Best Buy Canada and Sears Canada Inc., announced layoffs Thursday in what is shaping up to be a turbulent and competitive year for the country's retail sector. I think there is going to be a restructuring ...
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National Post
Retail revival
The Motley Fool
Consumers are back shopping, if the rise in electronic transactions has anything to do with it. National Australia Bank (ASX:NAB) has reported a massive jump in the number of ATM and EFTPOS transactions over the Christmas to Australia Day holiday period.
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Average US retail price up 13 cents as oil rises, gas supplies on East and ...
Newser
A man buys gas at a station Thursday Jan. 31, 2013 in Los Angeles. Gasoline prices are climbing as rising economic growth boosts oil prices and temporary refinery outages crimp gasoline supplies on the... (Associated Press) ...
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Facebook 'Likes' Gift Cards for New Retail Effort
Mobile Marketing Watch
Simply called "Facebook Card," the offering allows you to store monetary balances from a wide variety of retailers on one single card. The social networking giant says individuals can purchase the gift cards for friends directly on the Facebook website ...
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Mobile Marketing Watch
US Retail Ties to UK Supermarket Horse Meat Scandal - Walmart, Fresh & Easy ...
About - News & Issues
Several of the largest U.S. retail chains have direct ties to the horse meat scandal that has rocked the supermarket industry in the UK, even though the tainted meat drama has been unfolding an ocean away. Walmart (WMT), Trader Joe's, and Fresh & Easy ...
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Police arrest 110 in York County retail theft ring, 48 tied to Hanover
The Evening Sun
James Giuffrida, 30, of West York, who police say masterminded an organized retail theft ring out of his home and business in the borough. (York County Prison). nature come through our office since I've been here," she said, explaining she started in 2010.
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German retail sales plunged in December
The Star Online
BERLIN: German retail sales tumbled by their largest amount in over three years in December, preliminary data showed, denting hopes that private consumption can compensate for weaker exports and lift Europe's largest economy this year. The notoriously ...
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