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Walmart attracts more shoppers | The Manila Times

NEW YORK CITY: Walmart extended its streak of strong quarterly gains heading into the holiday season as its low prices attract shoppers looking for deals in a tough economic environment. The company, based in Bentonville, Arkansas, reported better-than-expected financial results for the period. It upped its annual outlook, though it was slightly below what analysts

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British retail sales drop as high interest rates hit shoppers

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. British retail sales unexpectedly fell in October, fuelling concerns that high prices and interest rates are hitting households’ finances more than anticipated. The quantity of goods bought in Great Britain declined 0.3 per cent in

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Groceries shoppers are proving resistant to tech disruption

Shopping for groceries is one chore that is proving stubbornly resistant to a tech revolution. Billions of venture capital dollars have been funnelled into start-ups that build warehouse robots and online delivery platforms, yet most shoppers still want to pick up a basket and dawdle round the aisles themselves. Shoppers carry their purchases in Aldi

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Shoppers planning to increase online buying

THE retail sector is booming as 60 percent of Southeast Asian holiday shoppers expressed plans to increase online shopping budgets, said mobile marketing and advertising platform InMobi. InMobi said in their report on Thursday that it conducted a survey on 1,000 smartphone users in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. The results show six out of

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Hundreds of stores from Walgreens to Macy’s are silently deploying facial recognition technology to spy on shoppers (and it’s legal in most states)

Major retailers in the US are already using facial recognition cameras to spy on shoppers, a campaigning group has warned. The tech – usually associated with authoritative regimes like China – is being used both to identify shoplifters and serve ‘personalized’ adverts. Caitlin Seeley George of anti-face recognition campaign group Fight for the Future told

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