Beat the Australian dollar crash: shop local now
TRENDING Right now, and for the next few weeks, it pays to shop local. Goods in Australian shops are likely to be cheaper than buying the same product online because what is sitting on store shelves...
View ArticleUN agencies 'broke and failing' in face of ever-growing refugee crisis
Damage will be impossible to reverse, warns head of UNHCR, after 10% fall in funding forces cuts to food rations and closure of clinics...
View ArticleAisleOne iPad app aims to shake up online shopping
An Australian-made iPad app sporting high-resolution graphics could transform how customers shop online for food and groceries. The AisleOne app lets users scroll through shopping aisles just as they...
View ArticleGuyana Accuses Venezuela of Aggression Near Border
Reuters GEORGETOWN, GUYANA— Guyana's President David Granger said Tuesday that neighboring Venezuela had launched an "extraordinary military deployment" in the east of the OPEC country, near a disputed...
View ArticleFriday Papers: Japan Post launches IPO to raise $11.5bn
Top stories Financial Times: Japan Post Holdings, the state-owned titan that employs 200,000 staff and controls both the country’s largest bank and insurance company, is seeking to raise Y1.39 trillion...
View ArticleSlowdown in UK internet sales may signal online shopping peak
As sales growth falls back to single figures, retail experts think shoppers may be holding back for Black Friday in November...
View ArticleVenezuela Expands Anti-smuggling Crackdown with New Closure
Associated Press CARACAS— Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has expanded an anti-smuggling offensive along the country's frontier with Colombia and ordered the closure of the main border crossing in...
View ArticleGuyana accuses Venezuela of 'aggressive behavior' near border area
GEORGETOWN (Reuters) - Guyana's President David Granger said on Tuesday neighboring Venezuela had launched an "extraordinary military deployment" in the east of the OPEC country, near a disputed border...
View ArticleFarmers clash with police in Brussels during milk and meat prices protest
British farmers among an estimated 4,000 that have blockaded city’s streets as European ministers hold emergency meeting on agriculture crisis...
View ArticleGuyana accuses Venezuela of 'aggressive behaviour' near border area
GEORGETOWN (Reuters) - Guyana's President David Granger said on Tuesday neighbouring Venezuela had launched an "extraordinary military deployment" in the east of the OPEC country, near a disputed...
View ArticleVenezuela Plans To Take In 20,000 Syrian Refugees
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced this week that his country is prepared to welcome 20,000 Syrian refugees in a show of good faith towards Syrian leader Bashar Assad, a longtime Venezuelan...
View ArticleSupermarkets of the future: Aisle have what they're having
For years supermarkets went out of their way to try and keep shoppers in their stores as long as possible, like a Las Vegas casino hoping you would keep spending money in endless aisles of slot...
View ArticleMorrisons closures and Waitrose decline underline food shopping's revolution
Plans to shut 11 Morrisons supermarkets and Waitrose’s first sales dip in seven years show that pressure on big grocers is increasing...
View ArticleColombia says airspace violated by Venezuela
The Colombian defence ministry says Venezuelan military jets crossed several kilometres into Colombian airspace. Air force radars "detected the entry to Colombian territory of two Venezuelan military...
View ArticleWoolworths to spend $65m fixing stores
When New Zealand food retailer Dave Chambers arrived in Sydney earlier this year to take the helm of Woolworths Supermarkets he was shocked by what he saw in stores. Shelves were low on stock, the...
View ArticleRation shop staff seek withdrawal of case against co-worker
Condemning the arrest of one of their colleagues and demanding the withdrawal of the case filed against him, a group of ration shop salesmen submitted a petition to Collector M. Karunakaran on...
View ArticleRalphs to Celebrate the Grand Re-Opening of its Expanded and Enhanced...
WESTWOOD, Calif., Sept. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing its ongoing reinvestment in its supermarkets, Ralphs will unveil its newest remodeled store in Westwood Village on Friday, September 18...
View ArticleFlour prices increased as ‘shortage’ looms
KARACHI: Retailers have started charging an additional Rs10 from consumers for 10kg flour bags of various brands from Friday, blaming the millers for a spike in rates. They said the millers raised the...
View ArticleSupermarket Scramble
Who knew selling food would be so cutthroat? Food rounds out the Top 3 household expenditures, after transportation and housing. And the landscape is littered with those that have been put out of...
View ArticleWoolworths revamp kicks off
When New Zealand food retailer Dave Chambers arrived in Sydney earlier this year to take the helm of Woolworths Supermarkets he was shocked by what he saw in stores. Shelves were low on stock, the...
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