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Wal-Mart Looks to See If Virtual Shopping Is Better Than the Real Thing

Wal-Mart has spent billions buying up websites like Jet.com and ModCloth, and is investing in new technology as it goes head-to-head with Amazon.com. Now, Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, is setting its sights on virtual reality.

Apple's Supply Chain Draws Criticism for Performance, but Praise for Sustainability

Two recent studies report varying performance levels in Apple's supply chain: Bloomberg argues that it's lost its mojo, but Greenpeace rates the tech giant as a sustainability pioneer.

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Amazon's Push Into Pharmacy Business Is Full of Promise and Pitfalls

A move by Amazon.com Inc. into the $412bn pharmacy business would shake up how generations have gotten their medicines, but success could prove elusive even for the ever-expanding e-retailer.

Q&A: Aligning Water Goals With Fiscal Responsibility

Sustainability and profitability go hand-in-hand at Cox Enterprises, a $20bn company headquartered in Atlanta with major subsidiaries in the communications, media and automotive industries.

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What Would Happen If Amazon Brought 50,000 Workers to Your City? Ask Seattle

Amazon.com has driven an economic boom in Seattle, bestowing more than 40,000 jobs upon a city known for Starbucks coffee and Seahawks fandom. Its growth remade a neglected industrial swath north of downtown into a hub of young workers and fixed the region, along with Microsoft before it, as a premier locale for the Internet economy outside Silicon Valley.

Green Age Kicks: How Ethical Trainers Won the Fashion Seal of Approval

It seems that the fashion industry has finally woken up. Gucci's scrapping fur; Russian entrepreneur Miroslava Duma is investing $500m in sustainable innovations in textiles, such as leather that can be grown in a lab and silk spun by spiders.

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Roche Pharmaceuticals: Supply-Chain Diversity Improves Innovation, Reputation

Diversifying your supply chain brings innovation and improves business credentials, according to the head of procurement at pharmaceutical firm Roche.

Developing Nations Hit by Container Shipping Squeeze

Seaborne trade grew by 2.6 percent in 2016, to reach 10.3 billion tons, but the pace remained below the historical three percent average, and demand for maritime shipping continued to lag behind supply, a new United Nations report says.

Chinese Scientists Create Cost-Saving, Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs

Here's something that may sound like a contradiction in terms: low-fat pigs. But that's exactly what Chinese scientists have created using new genetic engineering techniques.

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Nike Is Fed Up With 'Mediocre' Retailers

Struggling retailers beware: Nike is going to downgrade you if you don't up your game.

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U.S. Trade Gap Widens As Imports Increase

The U.S. merchandise-trade deficit widened to a four-month high as imports rose for the first time since April, according to the Commerce Department. The report also showed inventories increased at wholesalers and fell at retailers.

In Talks Over Nafta 2.0, IP Concerns Step to the Fore

Physical products are important, but one of the biggest stumbling blocks to a revised North American Free Trade Agreement could be something that you can't hold in your hands.

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