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Standing before an audience of 14,000 people last year, Walmart Inc executives described a radical plan to help it fend off Amazon.com Inc and other online delivery services from stealing its customers. Powered by AutoBlogger.co

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Uber targets older Americans with phone-based food ordering during coronavirus crisis - Reuters http://dlvr.it/RTq9gy

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Carrefour, Google to launch voice grocery shopping service in France FILE PHOTO: A worker pushes shopping trolleys to a Carrefour hypermarket in a deserted shopping centre in Charenton-le-Pont near Paris during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in France, April 29, 2020.

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Digital shopping app JOOM targets France in challenge to Amazon PARIS(Reuters) - The e-commerce marketplace JOOM, whose mobile shopping app sells products from China at cut-rate prices directly to buyers, is recruiting French brands to bolster its merchant roster in a market it sees as key to cracking Europe and taking on Amazon.

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Coronavirus outbreak at South Korea e-commerce warehouse drives spike in new cases

Coronavirus outbreak at South Korea e-commerce warehouse drives spike in new cases

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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea reported the highest daily number of new coronavirus cases in 49 days on Wednesday, as one of the country’s largest e-commerce companies battled an outbreak linked to a now-shuttered logistics facility.

The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) reported 40 new cases as of midnight Tuesday, bringing the country’s total number to 11,265. A…

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India's Flipkart adds original content to video service

India’s Flipkart adds original content to video service

FILE PHOTO: The logo of India’s e-commerce firm Flipkart is seen in this illustration picture taken January 29, 2019. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/Illustration/File Photo

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Walmart Inc’s Indian unit Flipkart is adding original shows to its newly minted video platform, the company said on Tuesday, as it competes with rival Amazon.com Inc’s Prime Video.

Flipkart, which says it…

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Prosecutors Weigh Competing Accounts In JD.com CEO Rape Allegation

On the night of Aug. 30, a 21-year-old University of Minnesota student said she was in a chauffeured black car, trying to keep billionaire JD.com Inc Chief Executive Richard Liu from pulling off her clothes. #AfricanNewsNetwork

On the night of Aug. 30, a 21-year-old University of Minnesota student said she was in a chauffeured black car, trying to keep billionaire JD.com Inc Chief Executive Richard Liu from pulling off her clothes.

“I just begged him, ‘Don’t do that. You have wife and you have kids,’” the Chinese woman told police in a recorded interview days after that was reviewed by Reuters. “He did not listen to…

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Corrected: Strawberries spook Australia into raising jail terms for food tampering

Corrected: Strawberries spook Australia into raising jail terms for food tampering

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Supplied undated handout image obtained September 14, 2018 of a thin piece of metal seen among a punnet of strawberries in Gladstone. AAP/Queensland Police/Handout via REUTERS

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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia on Thursday increased the jail term to 15 years for anyone convicted of contaminating foodstuffs as a…

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India eyes single regulator for e-commerce sector: document India is considering a single regulator and legislation to address all e-commerce-related issues in the country, in a bid to remove the legal fragmentation currently governing the sector, according to a draft policy document seen by Reuters. Source link

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Walmart Microsoft In Partnership To Use Cloud Tech - Retail giant Walmart Inc said on Tuesday it entered into a strategic partnership with Microsoft Corp for wider use of cloud and artificial intelligence technology, in a sign of major rivals of Amazon.com Inc coming together.

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In farewell to U.S. shoppers, Toys 'R' Us urges 'Play on!'

In farewell to U.S. shoppers, Toys ‘R’ Us urges ‘Play on!’

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – As Toys “R” Us Inc stores across the United States marked their final day in business on Friday, the bankrupt toy retailer posted a farewell message to customers on its website next to an image of its iconic Geoffrey the Giraffe mascot thanking them and urging them to “Play on!” The sign of the Toys R Us store is seen in a Denver suburb March 15, 2011.…

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Google to invest $550 million in Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com

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Instacart valued at nearly $14 billion in latest funding amid online sales boom (Reuters) - Instacart said on Thursday it had raised $225 million in a new funding round, valuing it at $13.7 billion, as the grocery delivery company cashes in on a surge in online shopping due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Exclusive: Alibaba in talks on stake in China operations of Germany’s Metro – sources HONG KONG/DUESSELDORF (Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is in talks with Germany’s Metro about taking a stake in the German wholesaler’s China operations, three sources told Reuters on Thursday.

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‘Sooner, faster, now’ – the companies surfing the e-commerce wave LONDON (Reuters) - Amazon’s (AMZN.O) assault on the retail industry has brought misery to traditional retailers without a strong web presence.