Retail

Bloomberg Reliance Industries Ltd. plans to take on the likes of Amazon.com Inc. and Walmart Inc. in India’s retail industry by creating a platform that combines online and conventional shopping. Billionaire Chairman Mukesh Ambani outlined the plan at the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting in Mumbai saying Reliance saw its “biggest growth opportunity in creating a hybrid, online-to-offline new commerce platform.” ...

Bloomberg As pharmacy chains await Amazon.com Inc.’s entry into the prescription-drug market, the online retail giant is already undercutting them for non-prescription medicine for aches, colds and allergies. Median prices for over-the-counter (OTC), private-brand medicine sold by Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and CVS Health Corp. were about 20 percent higher than Basic Care, the OTV rug line sold exclusively by ...

Bloomberg Supervalu Inc. and other supermarket and restaurant chains alleged that chicken producers conspired to limit supplies and inflate prices, adding to antitrust lawsuits against companies including Tyson Foods Inc. and Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. Closely held grocery chains Publix Super Markets Inc., Wakfern Food Corp., Associated Grocers of the South Inc. and Meijer Inc., along with OSI Restaurant Partners LLC, ...

Bloomberg J Sainsbury Plc showed why it’s so eager to lead a consolidation push among the UK’s grocers. Excluding fuel, Sainsbury’s comparable retail sales rose 0.2 percent in the 16 weeks through June 30, the London-based company said. That met the average analyst estimate but marked the slowest growth since the company acquired catalog retailer Argos in 2016. “The slowdown ...

Bloomberg Macy’s Inc., pleased so far with the performance of Bluemercury, is pushing for more. The cosmetics brand, acquired by Macy’s for $210 million in 2015, will open about 60 new standalone stores through 2019 — maintaining the chain’s pace of expansion. More will open inside existing Macy’s locations, underscoring how Bluemercury has become a key part of the department ...

Bloomberg Kids across the country are feeling the absence of Toys ‘R’ Us Retail landlords, too. The amount of occupied retail real estate in 77 major US metropolitan areas dropped by 3.8 million square feet (350,000 square metres) in the second quarter, the largest decline since 2009, according to data from real estate researcher Reis Inc. released. Shuttered stores once ...

Bloomberg Tennis great Roger Federer, long all but synonymous with Nike Inc., has parted ways with the swoosh to join Japanese casual clothing brand Uniqlo. The eight-time Wimbledon champion surprised many fans when he walked onto Centre Court for his first-round match in an outfit by Fast Retailing Co.’s Uniqlo. The Swiss star’s apparel contract with the Beaverton, Oregon-based athletic-wear ...

Bloomberg One year after buying a stake in Nestle SA and watching his holding lose value, activist investor Dan Loeb is running out of patience. Loeb fired off a 34-page presentation over the weekend, demanding a far more radical transformation than the world’s largest food company has so far embraced. Accusing Nestle of a “muddled strategic approach” that threatens its ...

Bloomberg Tesco Plc is forming a purchasing alliance with French retailer Carrefour SA to increase its leverage with suppliers in a consolidating and price-squeezed supermarket business. The alliance between two of Europe’s largest retailers, with combined annual sales of about $171 billion, aims to enhance the companies’ clout in buying branded goods and private-label items as competition from discounters like ...

Bloomberg Trax, a Singapore-based startup serving the retail industry, raised $125 million in a funding round led by Boyu Capital as it advances plans for an initial public offering. The IPO could take place in the next 18 to 24 months and the company is already in talks with both the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange, CEO Joel Bar-El ...