Amazon.com to close all of its Amazon fresh stores
- 23-Sep-2025
Amazon.com said it planned to close all of its 19 Amazon Fresh UK convenience grocery stores, of which five would be converted to its Whole Foods Markets brand, less than five years after it entered the market. Amazon Fresh pioneered “walk out” technology in Britain, enabling customers to skip the checkout line when they picked […]
Target issues weak forecast as shoppers pull back
- 22-May-2024
Target on Wednesday said it expects consumer caution to persist after it reported quarterly earnings that missed Wall Street estimates and issued a forecast for the current quarter that was also largely below expectations. Shares fell 8% premarket after it posted adjusted earnings per share of $2.03, 3 cents below analysts’ expectations, according to LSEG […]
Among Colorado victims, a shop worker who loved her job and was dating colleague
- 23-Mar-2021
Leiker was among the 10 people shot at the store on Monday whom authorities identified on Tuesday.
Huawei to open its biggest flagship store outside China in Riyadh
- 15-Jan-2021
Huawei has signed a leasing contract with Saudi Arabia’s Kaden Investment for the store that will allow the Chinese company to have direct access to consumers amid rising demand for digital products
Gunman arrested after deadly Los Angeles store hostage standoff
- 22-Jul-2018
LOS ANGELES: Police in Los Angeles arrested a man who took hostages and barricaded himself inside a Trader Joe’s grocery store on Saturday, ending a three-hour standoff during which he fatally shot a woman, authorities said. The man, who was chased by police after he was suspected of repeatedly shooting his grandmother and another woman […]
Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human rights fears
- 24-Feb-2018
SAN FRANCISCO/BEIJING: When Apple begins hosting Chinese users’ iCloud accounts in a new Chinese data center at the end of this month to comply with new laws there, Chinese authorities will have far easier access to text messages, email and other data stored in the cloud. That’s because of a change to how the company […]
Amazon’s automated grocery store of the future opens Monday
- 22-Jan-2018
SEATTLE: Amazon.com will open its checkout-free grocery store to the public on Monday after more than a year of testing, the company said, moving forward on an experiment that could dramatically alter brick-and-mortar retail. The Seattle store, known as Amazon Go, relies on cameras and sensors to track what shoppers remove from the shelves, and […]
Chiniot: Unknown persons set store on fire
- 10-Dec-2016
CHINIOT: Goods worth millions of rupees were reduced to ashes after unknown men set a general store on fire in Chiniot, ARY News reported on Saturday. Unknown culprits in an arson attack set the shop at Jhang Road in Chiniot on fire, due to which items worth millions of rupees in the shop were gutted. […]
Uber says Taiwan’s steps against it hurting citizens
- 17-Nov-2016
TAIPEI: Uber Technologies urged Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to let the island’s people decide whether they want Uber services in Taiwan, the latest salvo in the wrangle between the authorities there and the global ride-hailing service company. Uber’s comments were made in an open letter to the island’s president posted on its website on Thursday. They […]
Kalashnikov replica store opens in Russian airport
- 19-Aug-2016
MOSCOW: Russia's biggest international airport on Friday expressed concern after gunmaker Kalashnikov opened a store there selling lifesize replica rifles.