Behind the Smiles - Amazon’s internal injury records expose the true toll of its relentless drive for speed
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Norwegian sugar tax sends sweet-lovers over border to Sweden
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Profile of a fake Amazon reviewer, who has received over $15,000 of products for free in exchange for posting five-star reviews
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IKEA staff in Uppsala, Sweden turned up at work to find a fugitive sleeping in the store's bed department
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Harrods was accused of ruining the spirit of Christmas after limiting Santa visits to customers who spend over $2,500
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Marvel Unlimited offering two month free trial through Target
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H&M is the latest fashion brand to test out the concept of clothing rental
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Why Costco is cheaper than Amazon
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America’s Orthodox Jews are selling a ton of the products you buy on Amazon
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Jeff Bezos’s master plan - What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us
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One supermarket chain in Finland has an idea to address food waste – S-market has started holding 'happy hours' for products nearing expiration date
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Digital transformation is occurring at varying rates and inadvertently creating a new kind of digital divide in cross-border e-commerce
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Forever 21's bankruptcy shows that teens are outgrowing malls
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French court says Valve must allow Steam users to resell games
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Amazon changed its search system to boost more-profitable listings, including its own brands
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Impossible at home
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The people who built Etsy dreamed of remaking commerce with their bare hands. Fifteen years later, its sellers are being asked to compete with Amazon.
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IKEA has committed to becoming a circular business by 2030 – by eliminating waste and reusing resources
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Apple will give indie repair shops the tools to fix iPhones
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In defense of the department store bike
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Amazon has ceded control of its site to third-party sellers. The result: thousands of banned, unsafe or mislabeled products.
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Finland's grocery giants help consumers track climate impact of food
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What does Amazon's "Top Brand" badge actually mean?
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An armed man who caused panic at a Walmart in Missouri says it was a 'social experiment'
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How the ‘IKEA effect’ subtly influences how you spend
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Up to 40% of retail stores in Finland could go bust by 2030 – competition from online retailers will bring major upheaval
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In the flesh: Online brands promise an escape from the conventional logic of consumerism — until they open physical stores
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Norway's consumer watchdog has criticised fast-fashion chain H&M for misleading marketing of its sustainable collection
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Is fair trade finished? Fairtrade changed the way we shop. But major companies have started to abandon it and set up their own in-house imitations – threatening the very idea of fair trade.
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The world’s last Blockbuster has no plans to close
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The man who’s going to save your neighborhood grocery store
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Monolithic concrete forms associated with brutalist architecture inspired the interiors of Axel Arigato's Copenhagen flagship store
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EU opens Amazon antitrust investigation
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Road-tripping with the Amazon nomads - To stock Amazon’s shelves, merchants travel the backroads of America in search of rare soap and coveted toys
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How a grocery store's plan to shame customers into using reusable bags backfired
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Mississippi is forbidding grocery stores from calling veggie burgers “veggie burgers”
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Polish IKEA fires employee for Biblical opposition to pride event
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What happens after Amazon’s domination is complete? Its bookstore offers clues
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How the Swedish town of Eskilstuna became the world capital of recycling
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Shops full of vitamins, miracle pills 'trashing pharmacists' reputation'
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"Amazon's Choice" is given to products automatically and doesn't indicate quality - Many have troubling product defects and warnings, as well as review manipulation
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ThinkGeek is shutting down
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Don’t know which toaster to buy? There’s a website for that: When did recommendation sites become such a central part of the online economy? And are they changing the way we shop?
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Walmart wants employees to deliver products to your fridge - Available in three cities this fall
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Big Tech wanted to dethrone credit cards. Why it failed, and who wins now.
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The new recycling is called 'recommerce’
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Grocery stores are packed with plastic. Some are changing
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Avoiding "health washing" at the grocery store
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Meal kits have smaller carbon footprint than grocery shopping, study says
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The making of Amazon Prime - An oral history of the subscription service that changed online shopping forever
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