Retail

BLOOMBERG Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is pushing aggressive cost-cutting to boost profit as growth in its domestic China market remains anemic, a conservative shift for a tech giant that once spent aggressively to dominate wide swaths of the economy. The online retailer reported net income rose a better-than-anticipated 69% to 46.8 billion yuan ($6.8 billion), but revenue rose just 2.1% ...

  Bloomberg Tesco Plc has joined discounter Aldi in limiting purchases of some fruit and vegetables in the UK after difficult harvests due to cold weather in southern Spain and North Africa. Both retailers are capping purchases of peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes to three units per person. The moves follow Morrisons which has a limit of two products and Asda ...

  Bloomberg Decisions to raise prices again are becoming “more difficult” as inflation wears on, Procter & Gamble Co Chief Financial Officer Andre Schulten said. The Tide maker is focused on offsetting higher costs with productivity savings to minimise the need for price increases. But it still sees a need to charge more to fund innovation that it believes will ...

  Bloomberg Target Corp will invest $100 million to add six new package-sorting centres in a push to expand its next-day delivery capabilities. The new hubs will be operating by the end of 2026, Target said in a statement. Target already has nine sorting centres, which are located in Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Texas. The company is still ...

  Bloomberg EBay Inc projected revenue in the current quarter that didn’t convince investors the company’s efforts to revive sales are beginning to work. The shares declined in premarket trading. Revenue will be $2.46 billion to $2.5 billion in the period ending in March, or about the same as a year earlier. In the fourth quarter, sales fell 3.9% to ...

Bloomberg Starbucks Corp, the world’s biggest coffee-shop operator, has launched a range of olive oil-infused beverages in Italy to boost market share in a country where it’s struggled to gain a foothold. The chain will initially sell its new Oleato coffee line, which includes a drink featuring olive oil steamed with oat milk, in Italy only. It then plans to ...

  Bloomberg Walmart Inc turned in another blowout quarter as more shoppers sought out its low prices, but the retailer offered a cautious outlook for the current fiscal year because of rising economic uncertainty. Consumers are getting squeezed as interest rates climb and savings rates fall, Walmart Chief Financial Officer John David Rainey said. That threatens spending even as the ...

  Bloomberg Danone’s revenue grew at the fastest rate in more than a decade, boosted by higher prices on products from Activia yogurt to Evian water. Sales rose 7.8% on a like-for-like basis in 2022, Danone said, beating analysts’ estimates. The stock rose as much as 2.8% in early trading. Chief Executive Antoine de Saint-Affrique is implementing a turnaround plan ...

  Bloomberg Bed Bath & Beyond Inc said it will pay past-due interest to bondholders on February 28 as the troubled retailer catches up on overdue payments after a last-minute equity deal earlier this month. The company said in a statement that it has prefunded the full amount of interest. The retailer had been in a grace period since it ...

  Bloomberg As Party City Holdco Inc wades through bankruptcy, some of its most important vendors are banding together to negotiate better trade terms for a holiday the company relies on: Halloween. Halloween orders are placed months ahead of time, meaning costume suppliers have to decide soon what they’re willing to ship to the bankrupt party supplier and on what ...