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WRC 2014: 'Disruptors' a key concern for global retailers
2014-10-01 18:13:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Disruption was the central theme at this year's World Retail Congress in Paris, covering everything from the innovation of new businesses to the latest generation of millennial shoppers. Indeed, it's an issue of key concern for global retailers, as Steve Sadove, chairman of the National Retail Federation and former Saks CEO, explains.
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Big Shift In China Economy To 'disrupt' Western Retailers: Li & Fung Head
2014-09-29 19:14:50| Logistics - Topix.net
China's role in supplying cheap consumer goods to the West could end in coming years due to rising domestic consumption and worker pay, stoking inflation and unsettling retailers in Western markets, the chairman of logistics group Li & Fung "China will disrupt the world," William Fung of Hong Kong-based Li & Fung, which supplies firms like Walmart Stores Inc China is a country that operates in economic cycles of 30 years, Fung said, and between 1979 and 2009, it had been the world's "factory" producing consumer goods at low prices, notably thanks to the low wages paid to its workers. "When China starts consuming and with India right behind it, I predict a round of price increases and margin squeezes," he Fung said.
Walmart, Toys "R" Us among retailers ramping up holiday season hiring
2014-09-25 03:01:57| Trucking - Topix.net
Toys "R" Us announced this week it plans to hire 45,000 employees nationwide at stores and distribution centers, with 400 seasonal employees slated for Orlando-area stores, which is 100 fewer than last year's hiring estimate . For Toys "R" Us, holiday hiring typically begins at the end of September, with new seasonal employees starting work in early October.
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The woes of Rio's small retailers
2014-09-25 01:06:37| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Shopkeepers struggle with rising rents and high crime levels
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UK: Retailers urged to create more biodegradable clothing
2014-09-23 15:10:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Designers and retailers in the UK are being urged to create clothes from more easily biodegradable materials to ease waste disposal issues.
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