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Retail: Woolies imports 3% of fruit sold in its Aus stores - but it still gets labels wrong

Australia's Woolworths has been fine AUD1450 for selling USA grown lemons labelled as home grown. Coles sold Israeli grapfruit as Aussie product - and they have been fined AUD880. Both supermarke...

Retail: Teaching the developed world a thing or two about service.

Whenever a company refers me to a "customer service" department, I know one thing: I am not going to get service or, if I do, it will be at the expense of being transferred from person...

Retail: shakeout continues in Aussie high streets as big playeRs head for the web

Another Australian retailer has collapsed. Colorado, owned by Hong Kong private equity firm Affinity Equity Partners, has more than 430 shops across Australia and New Zealand under the Colorado A...

Retail: Borders admits defeat but hopes to be back

As expected, Borders, the USA bookshop chain, called in the administrators yesterday. It hopes to put together a corporate v...

Retail: US theft from retailers reaches USD30,000 million per annum

The USA's FBI has a dedicated unit to investigate shoplifting, etc. But this isn't the kid stealing a Mars Bar on the way home from school: it's organised crime and it's much more sophisticated t...

Retail: the ever shrinking Borders

Borders, the US bookshop chain, is going through another crisis. The first, we reported in March 2008 (story), was when discretionary income was drying up. But the main problem now appears to be...

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