By Padraig Collins For Daily Mail Australia Published: 07:42 GMT, 27 November 2023 | Updated: 07:42 GMT, 27 November 2023 Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci has hit back at one of customers’ biggest complaints – self-service check-outs. In an email sent to customers over the weekend, Mr Banducci addressed the question of whether the company’s use … Read more
A non-profit healthcare organization donated thousands of dollars to the families of victims who died in the Chesapeake mass shooting on its first anniversary. A representative of Sentara Health presented a $15,000 check to the families during a special remembrance lunch held by community leaders from across Hampton Roads yesterday. Andre Bing opened fire in the breakroom … Read more
Bank of America strategists have predicted stocks will hit record levels next year. Savita Subramanian, the bank’s head of US equity and quantitative strategy, wrote in a note Tuesday that she sees the S&P 500 index ending 2024 at 5,000. That would be an all-time high for the market index, which tracks the stock performance … Read more
A cancer survivor has vowed to challenge an appeals court ruling stating that she is not entitled to a $60,000 payout after a SWAT team destroyed her home with explosives, toxic gas and armored vehicles while in pursuit of an armed fugitive. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last month that it was necessary for … Read more
Whether you love them or hate them, self-serve checkouts are here to stay in Australian supermarkets despite overseas stores going back to old-fashioned customer service. British supermarket chain Booths is the latest company to remove self-serve checkouts in response to customer feedback labelling the technology slow, unreliable and impersonal. Costco in the US has scrapped nearly … Read more
Well howdy doody y’all. I am filing this dispatch from Bentonville in Arkansas, a delightful place that boasts exhilarating mountain bike trails into the neighbouring Ozarks. The air is like champagne, the sky is bright blue, the leaves are turning red and gold in that unique American way — and I am witnessing an economic … Read more
The retailer reopened 117 locations in 30 states at a cost of half a billion dollars Walmart has invested $9 billion over the past two years to upgrade 1,400 stores The stores have new ‘dollar shop’ sections and touch-and-feel displays By Tilly Armstrong Assistant Consumer Editor For Dailymail.Com Updated: 18:36 GMT, 31 October 2023 Walmart … Read more
Opportunistic Acapulco residents have been spotted looting businesses en masse – robbing stores of items like electronics and homeware items, just a day after Hurricane Otis devastated the resort town in Mexico. While some survivors of the Category 5 storm were seen ransacking bottled water, toilet paper and food out of multiple department stores, including … Read more
Fugitive Maine shooting suspect Robert Card lived in a ‘compound’ with his gun-fanatic family, according to a local who claimed neighbors tried to avoid the alleged killer. Liam Kent, who lives near Card’s home in Bowdoin, told The Messenger the community knew the suspect and his relatives as ‘gun-toting enthusiasts who lived in ‘basically a compound.’ … Read more
The bowling alley killer who shot at least 18 people dead in Maine could have made his getaway on a jet ski, police believe. Army Reservist Robert Card, 40, is suspected of being responsible for the massacre at a bowling alley and pool hall in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday night, inuring 13 and killing at … Read more