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General Motors Is Recalling 2.5M Cars in China Over Faulty Airbags

General Motors and its joint venture in China, Shanghai GM, will recall more than 2.5 million vehicles due to faulty airbag inflators, China's top quality watchdog has said.

A Third of Consumers Trust Food Supply Chains, Report Says

Consumer trust in the U.K. food sector is declining as it emerges fraud is costing the industry £12bn ($16.29bn) a year, according to a report.

Apple Wants Its Stores to Become 'Town Squares.' Skeptics Call It a 'Branding Fantasy.'

Goodbye, Apple store. From now on, the company says, its stores are "town squares."

092017 Apple Wants Its Stores

Target Is Hiring 40-Percent More Holiday-Season Workers Than Last Year

Target plans to hire 100,000 people to work during the hectic holiday shopping season, up 40 percent from last year.

Nordstrom Is Opening a Store That Will Serve Beer But Won't Stock Clothes

Nordstrom is trying a smaller store on for size.

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Amazon's Whole Foods Price Cuts Brought 25-Percent Jump in Shoppers

Amazon.com Inc.'s splashy takeover of Whole Foods, complete with deep price cuts, did more than bring a surge of publicity to the chain: It boosted customer traffic by 25 percent.

To Hire Star Millennials, Plug Successful Sustainability Efforts

As organizations look toward finding their next generation of executives, they can hardly avoid seeking out millennials, the generation defined in part by their increased use and familiarity with communications, media and digital technologies - and the largest population group on the planet.

$150Bn Misfire: How Forecasters Got Irma Damage Wrong

Twenty miles may have made a $150bn difference.

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Hurricane Harvey's Wake of Damaged Cars and Trucks

Perry Smith tried to race Hurricane Harvey. He lost.

Levi's Aims to Make Life Better for Garment Workers

It's 11 a.m. on a Tuesday, and a section of Linea 1 has left their stations to form a ring on the factory floor. As their supervisor stands in the center, the workers toss a ball of blue yarn back and forth across the circle, each holding on to a segment of string to create an elaborate cat's cradle. As they pass the ball, they take turns making promises, telling each other the things they plan to say and do later. One says she'll spend more time with her family. Another says he'll speak up when he feels he's been treated unfairly.

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'Ware-bnb': The Rise of On-Demand Distribution

With its dark, gloomy winters, Seattle is a good place to run a wine accessories store, especially during the holiday season. A few years ago, a wine-themed company called True Fabrications was doing well in Seattle - so well, in fact, that it was running out of space to store its inventory. The owners figured that, to get through their next holiday peak season, they would need another 2,000 to 3,000 pallet positions of capacity, but only for four to five months.

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Timberland Looks to New Source for Cotton Supply Chain

In a move that it hopes will create a new cotton supply chain, outdoor clothing company Timberland is working with the Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) on an effort to reintroduce cotton as a crop in Haiti, the company announced.

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