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Hurricane Harvey Causes Damage To Texas Farms, Grain Silos

Texas farmers are assessing damage caused by Hurricane Harvey after it slammed into the coast, knocking over grain storage tanks and damaging cotton crops....

US Retail Industry Records Slight Job Decrease In July

The US retail industry saw employment declining slightly in July, with a decrease of approximately 1,700 jobs from June, according to statistics from...

UK-US Talks Put Trade-Chief Fox Among The Chickens

UK Trade Secretary Liam Fox was in Washington hunting for a trade deal, and despite the enthusiastic endorsement over Twitter by US President Donald Trump,...

Costco Evades Amazon-Inspired Gloom As Sales Beat Estimates

Costco Wholesale Corp. bypassed the funk pervading the retail industry in the wake of Amazon.com Inc.’s deal for Whole Foods Market Inc., as its trea...

SCA Closes US Tissue Production Plant To Improve Efficiency

SCA, the Swedish paper-product company, has announced that it is closing its US tissue production plant in Flagstaff, Arizona. The decision was made to...

Lidl To Host 'Grand Opening Celebration' In US On June 15

Lidl has unveiled plans to host a five-day 'grand opening celebration' in the US, running from June 15, the day on which its first ten Stateside stores ope...

Dollar Tree Reports 4% Sales Increase For Q1 2017

US retailer Dollar Tree has reported that its consolidated sales have increased by 4% to $5.29 billion, in the first fiscal quarter which ended 2...

US Retailers Say Border Tax Would Mean Higher Prices: NRF

The US National Retail Federation (NRF) has said that retailers would 'have no choice' but to pass the higher costs on to consumers if Congress passes...