Bloomberg US retailers discounted heavily on Black Friday to clear out bloated inventories but customers responded with only modest traffic, leaving profitability in doubt for many chains. Crowds were thin at Connecticut’s Stamford Town Center mall, with few shoppers at Kay Jewelers and just a small line at Forever 21. A couple at a Walmart Inc supercenter near Dallas reveled ...

  Bloomberg Passengers flying through London City Airport will be able to leave laptops and liquids in their bags when passing through security from next year. The hub, which is currently trialling one security lane equipped with next-generation baggage scanners, plans to introduce the machines on all its lanes by April as part of a partnership with Leidos Holdings Inc, ...

  Bloomberg Inditex SA, the Spanish owner of the Zara clothing chain, is facing two days of strikes in its home market after unions and management failed to reach an agreement on pay. Stoppages shut as many as 11 shops in the northwestern province of A Coruña, in Galicia, as workers walked off their jobs to demand a €440 ($458) ...