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Walmart (WMT) may have an edge over its competition, Target — selling gasoline. Walmart+ members can save 10 cents a gallon at a number of participating Walmart, Murphy, Exxon and Mobil (XOM) stations nationwide. “This is actually Walmart’s secret ingredient over Target,” Jharonne Martis, director of consumer research at Refinitiv. In Walmart’s second-quarter fiscal 2023 earnings results, year-over-year sales grew 6.5%. This quarter alone, membership income grew 25.6%, according to… Source link

A massive data leak from Russian food delivery service Yandex Food revealed the delivery addresses, phone numbers, names, and delivery instructions belonging to those associated with Russia’s secret police, according to findings from Bellingcat. Yandex Food, a subsidiary of the larger Russian internet company, Yandex, first reported the data leak on March 1st, blaming it on the “dishonest actions” of one of its employees and noting that the leak doesn’t include users’ login… Source link

Ukrainian snipers had a problem: Russian forces in eastern Ukraine were trying to blind them. As the Ukrainians were looking through their scopes in order to find their targets, the Russians had begun pinpointing their location using the glare of the glass, and were shooting high-energy lasers into them, damaging the snipers’ eyesight. The two sides were squaring off in close proximity. In early 2014, Russia had already invaded and annexed Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula. Shortly thereafter,… Source link

A secret deal struck between Google and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is being investigated by antitrust regulators in the European Union and Britain for potentially undermining competition in the multibillion-dollar digital advertising market. The inquiry, which was announced on Friday by the European Commission and U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, is the latest effort to scrutinize the business practices of the world’s largest technology companies. The regulators said the… Source link

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, Denmark lifted all of its remaining coronavirus restrictions — a moment that millions of Americans have been longing for, especially as the Omicron wave that began in December appears to be subsiding. Recent polling indicates that pandemic fatigue is rising among ordinary Americans, a trend that elected officials have noticed. “We need to move away from the pandemic,” Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas said on Monday, after he and other governors met with… Source link

Victoria’s Secret stock (VSCO) is poised to look much sexier over the next 12 months, says closely followed JPMorgan retail analyst Matt Boss.  Boss reiterated his Overweight (buy equivalent) rating and $100 price target on Victoria’s Secret on Wednesday after a host of positive news from the intimate apparel retailer sent its stock higher by 11% to $53.  First, the company revealed a new $250 million stock buyback plan. The plan is the first buyback for Victoria’s Secret since being… Source link

Full stop, Jet.com founder and former Walmart U.S. e-commerce wizard Marc Lore is trying to shake up the world.  And that’s where Yahoo Finance found Lore on a recent Wednesday afternoon, somewhere between executing on big, bold new ideas (food delivery startup Wonder plus city of the future Telosa), mapping out a vision for basketball teams Minnesota Timberwolves and Minnesota Lynx (which he now partly owns with former baseball star Alex Rodriguez) and having a little fun on Twitter… Source link

SWOT analysis, Poster’s Five Force analysis, player positioning analysis, PESTEL analysis, value chain analysis, and market share analysis were used to collect, analyze, and evaluate all of the data presented in the Semantic Knowledge Graphing market research report. As a result, this research tool can help analysts evaluate the market based on a variety of factors such as customer preferences, capital investments, government legislation, distribution channels, and brand loyalty. Book… Source link

It was almost 10 p.m. on a Thursday night, and Ali Watkins was walking around the capital following instructions texted by a stranger. One message instructed her to walk through an abandoned parking lot near Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle, and then wait at a laundromat. Then came a final cryptic instruction: She was to enter an unmarked door on Connecticut Avenue leading to a hidden bar. The Sheppard, an upscale speakeasy, was so dimly lit it was sometimes hard to see the menu, let alone… Source link

THE DALLES, Ore. (AP) — The city of The Dalles, Oregon, has filed suit in an effort to keep Google’s water use a secret. The move comes ahead of a key City Council vote on a $28.5 million water pact between the city and the tech giant. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the city is seeking to overturn a ruling earlier from Wasco County’s district attorney, who found Google’s water use is a public record and ordered The Dalles to provide that information to the news organization. The city… Source link