The Washington Humane Society got some help from a familiar figure this year, as the Christmas holidays approached. The Humane Society is the only open-access animal shelter in the Nation's Capital, and cares for nearly 30,000 animals a year. It rece

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Luxury Retail a Bright Spot in Drab Global Economy As slow economic growth and high unemployment continue to stress the United States and other parts of the world, economists say many of the worlds wealthy are continuing to shop at designer stores, m

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The 2016 Sino-American Retail Summit, also the Belt and Road Initiative Global Retail Forum, was held in New York on Thursday morning local time, with industry leaders and experts from both sides attending. Xu Chen, Chairman of the China General Cham

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The latest figures from the Ministry of Commerce have shown that China's retail sale of consumer goods has now experienced double-digit growth for 14 consecutive years. China's retail sale of consumer goods in 2017 reached 36.6 trillion yuan, or 5.8

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 26 August 2007 Woman walks outside a Reliance Fresh supermarket in Hyderabad, India In India, efforts by multinationals to grab a slice of the country's growing retail business are meeting strong opposition from traders a

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U.S. markets posted early gains after modestly encouraging signs concerning employment and retail sales. People line up at the Anaheim Orange County Job Fair and Expo in Anaheim, CA, 03 Jun 2009 The U.S. Labor Department says 24,000 fewer Americans

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One day after the U.S. central bank signaled a possible end to America's longest recession since World War II, new data suggest continued weakness in several economic sectors. Shoppers move through the check-out line after a shopping trip to Wal-Mar

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LAUREN FRAYER, HOST: By now, you'd better have your holiday shopping done. Maybe you did more of it online this year. Easy for you but bad for your local mall - brick-and-mortar stores are losing jobs. And it turns out some workers are hit harder tha

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For this year's 'double 11' shopping spree, Chinese Internet giants are turning to new technologies to help boost sales both online and offline. Meanwhile regulators are said to be keeping a close eye on e-commerce fraud as country's biggest online s

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Diego: So, Silvia, I hear you have thirty handbags and thirty-five pairs of shoes. Silvia: Yeah, I know. Actually, it's a little bit of a sad story if I tell you why I have a lot of bags and shoes. Diego: It's OK, we have time. Silvia: Actually, I lo

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Diego: So, Silvia, I hear you have thirty handbags and thirty-five pairs of shoes. Silvia: Yeah, I know. Actually, it's a little bit of a sad story if I tell you why I have a lot of bags and shoes. Diego: It's OK, we have time. Silvia: Actually, I lo

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By Mil Arcega Washington, DC 05 June 2006 watch World Bank Store report Shopping inside the World Bank store, called Pangea The World Bank has taken a new approach to globalization. The organization b

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China's drug retail sales hit 188 bln yuan BEIJING, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- China's drug retail sales reached 188.5 billion yuan (about 29.9 billion U.S. dollars) in 2011, according to figures released by the China Medical Pharmaceutical Material Associ

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U.S. retail sales grew more slowly in October, giving a moderate boost to the consumer spending segment that drives most U.S. economic activity. Tuesday's report from the Commerce Department says the gain was one-half of a percent in October, which i

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 04 June 2008 India has raised domestic fuel prices, in the wake of the massive surge in international crude oil prices. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, there are worries the move will fuel inflation at a cruci

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 03 December 2006 John B. Menzer, Wal Mart President talks with Indian PM Manmohan Singh, right, in New Delhi, 12 May 2005 India's retail sector is set for dramatic changes as the world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, gets

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Stock prices were down again Wednesday, on Wall Street and in Europe and Asia. As VOA's Kent Klein reports from Washington, investors seem to doubt that plans to help troubled financial institutions will be enough to fight off a deep recession. Pede

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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled locations of the first six new retail stores it plans to open in 2013, indicating that the company will continue to expand its retail coverage in the new year. All of the six new stor

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Hong Kong's Secretary of Commerce and Economic Development, Gregory So, says total arrivals climbed 1.5 percent year-on-year. The number of mainland tourists increased by just 2.3-percent this year to around 1.1 million arrivals over the 7-day holida

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Hong Kong's retail sector has shown signs of recovery for the second month, as the decline eased to 7.5 per cent in April from 9.8 percent a month earlier. But this is the 14th month in a row that retail sales have declined, the longest contraction p

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