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GlobalData plc is a UK-based data analytics and consulting firm providing market research, forecasts and insights across retail, tech and healthcare.
Albertsons suspended its financial guidance on Oct. 13 after identical sales fell 0.8% in its second quarter. It plans to present a refreshed customer strategy, expanded cost reductions and a multi-year roadmap by its fourth-quarter call.
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Samsung added $100 to most Galaxy S26 phones and $200 to the 1TB Ultra in the US, the second rise this year for the base S26 and S26 Plus. For teams planning 2027 phone refreshes, the storage tier on each order now moves the price more than it did in the spring.
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Nike now expects fiscal 2027 revenue to fall after $11.21 billion in first-quarter sales missed estimates and Greater China sank 26% currency-neutral. Its Pace overhaul adds about $300 million of charges this fiscal year, with role cuts from 2027 and savings stretching to 2031.
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GTT launched Defense Halo, which re-checks firewall and device configs whenever they change and ranks known vulnerabilities by the assets a customer runs. For the team rolling it out, catching a bad config sooner only pays off if someone can also ship the fix sooner.
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Eurozone businesses must accept the digital euro by 2029, a free payment option aimed at the 47% of card payment value that Visa and Mastercard process. Adyen, a pilot member, says merchant demand is still thin, so the networks are likelier to feel it in their fees before their share.
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Toys "R" Us is opening 120 US stores this holiday season aimed partly at adults, whose toy buying rose 25% in the first half. Its former chief estimates 100 of the smaller shops would sell what a handful of the old ones did, so the season is a test of a cheap format.
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Costco's merchandise operation is built to break even. Most years its membership fees roughly equal its entire net income. A delivery fleet would have to come out of that line, so DoorDash and Uber get the work.
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Leggings are about a third of Lululemon's $11 billion in revenue and its best margin, so a 20% quarterly drop accounts for more than half of the 12% North American comparable-sales decline Heidi O'Neill inherited on Tuesday.
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The 4,000 redundancies fund £15bn to £18bn of product investment over five years, and the smaller volume base underneath them loads about a third more of that spend onto every car JLR sells.
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Dyson's record says the difference between a category-maker and a write-off is whether the annoyance being solved was real. The CameraJet puts that judgement on public test. The engineering was never the hard part.
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A quarter of the brand's $1 million of 2026 TikTok Shop sales came from live shows, and TikTok's own growth numbers say the category is expanding mainly by adding hours, which makes the staffed hour the thing to underwrite.
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Merchants put Amazon at about half of sales and TikTok Shop at 5 to 15 percent, while crediting TikTok for the growth in every other channel.
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