Author: Procurement-Newz
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Zara Now Offering Online Shipping From Stores
[ad_1] Share Tweet Share Share Share Print Email Zara is now enabling its stores to ship online purchases in an effort to boost sales of full-priced items. According to the Wall Street Journal, the service will be available in around 2,000 stores in 48 countries, including the U.S. This will be one of the largest-scale attempts…
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Health and Safety issues for retailers
[ad_1] In the year 2016 / 2017 there were 5538 non-fatal reported injuries to employees involving warehousing activities in the UK (HSE statistics). Online retailer Amazon was recently the subject of an article highlighting the risks associated with warehousing activities. The article claimed that the company were treating its staff like robots and that ambulances…
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EIA weekly oil report: US inventory build | Snap
[ad_1] So what drove the build? The increase was predominantly driven by weaker crude oil exports over the week, with them averaging 1.31MMbbls/d – down from 2.68MMbbls/d seen in the previous week. This fall shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise given the general narrowing that we have seen in the WTI-Brent discount lately.…