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99 Cents Only Stores says it’s shutting down its business after it could not find a solution that would allow it to continue operating. “Unfortunately, the last several years have presented significant and lasting challenges in the retail environment,” Mike Simoncic, the interim CEO of 99 Cents Only Stores, said in a statement Thursday. Simoncic is also stepping down. Simoncic said the decision was due to various factors including the COVID-19 pandemic, shifting consumer demand, and...
Company's interim CEO says economic pressures have 'greatly hindered the
Last year, Epic won an antitrust case against Google. This was a big deal. As part of the court’s decision, Epic had to create a proposed injunction highlighting the changes they want Google to make to the Play Store on Android. It looks like the company has made their decision based on their latest press release. Basically, it seems that Epic wants Google to not interfere with how third-party stores and sideloading apps are handled on Android. For those unfamiliar, usually Android displays a...
he conventional wisdom in the United States is that Iran has conducted a “blatant and powerful act of direct war” against Israel. However, the Iranian attack has been a long time coming in view of the past ten years of Israel’s cyberwar against Iran; the assassination of senior Iranian nuclear scientists on Iranian territory; and the killing of at least 18 Iranian generals and military commanders. The drone and missile attack on April 13th was carefully calibrated to target the Nevatim air...
Anyone looking to spend money on the PlayStation Store take note: PlayStation Store credit is going cheap right now. The ever-reliable ShopTo is offering a couple of stand-out deals on PlayStation Store credit. The first is the availability of £100 gift cards at just £85. Get £100 of PlayStation Store credit for £85 ShopTo is offering £100 of PlayStation Store credit for just £85, which is a 15% saving. ShopTo Save 15% ...
Few members of the metropolitan liberal elite would admit the 2001 movie “Bridget Jones’s Diary” was their favorite film, but if they picked up a battered copy of the 1996 novel, they’d be hard-pressed to put it down. Bridget Jones may be neurotic, absurd and mired in patriarchy, but she’s a hell of a lot more fun than any black coffee-glugging, Marx-bothering Sally Rooney heroine. That being said, there comes a time when we have to put even our most beloved mini-break enthusiasts out to...
There are five Poundstretcher stores across Greater Manchester
The NLRB general counsel has accused US’s largest corporations of creating distractions to cover their law-breakingThe US’s top labor lawyer has said her agency will not “succumb” to Amazon, Starbucks and SpaceX’s attempts to legally challenge the National Labor Relations Board and its ability to enforce federal labor law.Jennifer Abruzzo, the NLRB general counsel, accused some of the US’s largest corporations of “jumping on the bandwagon” in mounting legal challenges to the labor watchdog,...
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Amazon wants the public and—especially other businesses—to know it’s not giving up on its Just Walk Out technology. Although the company is ditching the cashier-less checkout system at its Amazon Fresh grocery stores, it plans to sell the technology to more than 120 third-party businesses by the end of the year. Reaching that goal would double the number of non-Amazon enterprises that use Just Walk Out compared to last year. “For us, really making sure that we can service that third-party...
SpaceX is trying to kill a federal agency that accused it of labor violations. Ostensibly progressive brands have leaped to join inElon Musk boasts that he’s a “free speech absolutist”, but that didn’t stop his rocket company, SpaceX, from firing eight workers who had criticized him for making light of reports that SpaceX had settled a sexual harassment claim against him.Not stopping there, SpaceX has moved to put the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the US’s top labor watchdog, out of...