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Survey: More Than Half of Consumers Have Started Holiday Shopping

With the middle of the holiday season approaching and shoppers eager to take advantage of early promotions from retailers, more than half of consumers have started making dents in their holiday gift lists, according to the annual mid-season survey released by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics.

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Emirates Says Rolls-Royce's A380 Engines Not Up to Standard

Emirates, the world's biggest long-haul airline, said it's unhappy with performance shortfalls afflicting $6.1bn worth of Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc engines ordered to power a batch of 50 Airbus Group SE A380 superjumbos.

Walmart Shares Plan for Worldwide E-Commerce Domination

To compete in the ongoing online retailing arms race, Walmart is bringing its sizable resources to bear to capture not only the U.S., but the global e-commerce market. CEO Doug McMillon recently laid out four priorities for the retailer as it looks to not only continue to dominate the physical retail space but make significant inroads in e-commerce: Make every day easier for busy families, operate with discipline, be the most trusted retailer, and deliver results and position the company to win.

'Blood Gold' Found in U.S. Cars and Smartphones

Deep in the jungles of Colombia, thousands of small, illegal mining operations, many under the control of Marxist guerrillas or drug traffickers, are working long hours to pull gold out of the ground. Miners are digging in out-of-the-way places such as Timbiquí and Río Quito. From there, the gold is hauled by boat, truck or small airplanes to smelters in Cali and Medellin.

Amazon Is Out to Conquer the Brick-and-Mortar Grocery Business

Now Amazon.com, Inc. wants to be your neighborhood grocer. How's that likely to turn out?

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137.4 Million Consumers Plan to Shop Thanksgiving Weekend

With the election behind them, consumers are eager to see the deals retailers will offer for the biggest shopping weekend of the year, with 59 percent of Americans - an estimated 137.4 million people - planning to or considering shopping during Thanksgiving weekend, according to the annual survey released by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics.

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Smart Operations: Are You a Thriver or Survivor?

Are your operations thriving or surviving? Smart operations marries continuous improvement with data to super-charge the entire value chain. But progress is uneven. Read about these seven traits of a smart operations thriver.

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Thanksgiving Day Shopping Is Here to Stay, But With Tweaks

Thanksgiving Day shopping - a delight to some, an anathema to others - isn't going away, but some stores are rethinking their strategies on whether it makes sense to be open on the holiday itself. Many of the nation's major mall operators and the big retailers that anchor them, such as Toys R Us, J.C. Penney and Macy's, are sticking with what they want to be a new tradition, kicking off the holiday shopping season on Thanksgiving Day.

U.N. Says Action on Climate Change Is 'Unstoppable' Despite Trump Win

Global efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions will continue after the election of climate change skeptic Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency, and momentum is growing to cut ship pollution, the United Nations' shipping agency chief says.

Dirty Linen: A Bed Sheets Scandal Hits the Cotton Industry

Huddled inside Target Corp.'s headquarters in downtown Minneapolis, a team of investigators spent the summer trying to answer what should have been a simple question: What were hundreds of thousands of the retailer's sheets actually made of?

Will Robots Put an End to Holiday Hiring in the Warehouse?

For retailers and distribution centers, the traditional method for coping with the chaos of the Christmas buying season has been to throw more bodies at the problem. But what if robots could do a better job of handling the surge of activity?

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E-Commerce Expert Says More Brands Should Sell on Amazon

At Gap's annual shareholder meeting this year, CEO Art Peck said, "to not be considering Amazon and others would be in my view delusional." Soon after, Lands' End announced that it would start selling some merchandise on Amazon, as the online behemoth's "credibility of being a desired fashion destination for shoppers continues to grow."

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