When Apple took its heavy - handed
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The Shopping Action program will give Google and its retail partners new tools to compete
against the retail giant in these categories as it gives online shoppers access to a «universal cart», whether they are shopping on their desktop, mobile phone or through a voice - first device.
They have filed a case against Apple for using their trademark on its products as well as
against the retailers who are selling Apple iPads.
Loblaw (TSX: L) moved to acquire Shoppers Drug Mart (TSX: SC) in a blockbuster $ 12.4 - billion deal that will allow it to better
compete against retail giants, such as Walmart, and provide cash flow of about $ 1 billion to pay down debt.
When Apple took its heavy - handed action
against retailers last month, stopping them selling from within iPad and iPhone apps, those retailers were inevitably going to search for ways to avoid this happening in future.
Injured parties can file
claims against retail stores, office buildings, restaurants, homeowners, landlords, and municipalities.
«Although this would require cyber criminals to target individual cards and wouldn't result in large scale breaches or theft like we have seen in the U.S., the payment technology used won't
protect against retailers who aren't storing payment card data securely, and they will still need to be vigilant in protecting stored data,» Candid Wüest, threat researcher at Symantec Security Response, said.
CNBC contributor Mike Khouw breaks down a $ 1 million bearish
bet against retail in the options market.
The ACCC has separately confirmed it will take legal action
against the retailers if it finds sufficient evidence that there have been breaches of the Competition and Consumer Act, and reiterated its warning that a voluntary code will not be enough to convince it to stop investigating the issue.
Your online shopping addiction may soon set you back even more as the U.S. Supreme Court this week will hear the
case against retailers that have not been collecting sales tax from customers.
While it's nice to imagine sellers sticking it out with Etsy out of a sense of loyalty, that would be akin to the authors who refused to sell their titles on Amazon — remaining loyal to selling through B&N, Apple, Smashwords, or their own or independent websites — out of a sense of
protest against the retail giant.
It is the «acting in concert» bit in the above ruling that Apple is citing, while extending its tirade
against retailers as well that are engaged in selling the devices it claims has infringed its patents.
Penguin's attorneys based their motion on the terms of agreements put in place by several ebook retailers that require arbitration rather than a trial be used to settle
disputes against the retailers.
A woman who bought two supposedly new phones for herself and her 13 - year - old daughter at a Georgia Radio Shack has filed a civil
suit against the retailer after her daughter found the phones to contain pornographic images.
Those better rates, Stoller said, could allow Amazon to force smaller retailers to use their Amazon fulfillment services — and if retailers don't, then Amazon can
discriminate against those retailers in the marketplace, crushing the competition.
The case of Boucher v. Wal - Mart Canada Corp., 2014 ONCA 419 (CanLII) concerned an appeal by Wal - Mart of the much - celebrated jury award of $ 1,000,000 in punitive
damages against the retailer.
«I just expressed that I felt like you have better chances online than you
do against the retailers,» says Harmon, who himself had used and enjoyed a tongue scraper in the past.
«The complaint alleges that the acquisition is likely to increase Smucker's negotiating
leverage against retailers, especially traditional grocers, by eliminating the vigorous head - to - head competition that exists between the Crisco and Wesson brands today,» the statement said.
The competition to replace Flood in 1999 pitted investment banking head John
Hunkin against retail banking's Holger Kluge.
Investors, it seems, are increasingly betting
against the retail sector ahead of the big shopping season on the assumption that U.S. consumers will continue to skip the mall in favor of shopping online.
The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing has filed a lawsuit
against retailer Fashion 21, alleging that the store has implemented an illegal English - only policy.
The retail sector is under increased pressure from rising e-commerce threat which has caused many large brick and mortar stores to down shutters.However, Realty Income is quite insulated from this risk as 97 % of its total portfolio is protected
against retail e-commerce threats and economic downturns.
They employed strong arm
tactics against retail vendors, forcing the vendors to be exclusive outlets for their products.
Farmers For Action (FFA) has heralded a draft agreement between the farmers and processors as a «step in the right direction» but has vowed to continue its
campaign against retailers and milk processors.
Longtime Walmart opponent City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is willing to soften her
stance against the retailer if it agrees to source its produce from Hunts Point Market should it bring stores to New York City.
It's still very confusing that publishers
rail against the retail giant and that «unnamed sources» continue to leak tidbits of information that are supposed to sway the court of public opinion against Amazon.
A class action lawsuit brought
against the retail chain by law firm Baron and Budd claimed GameStop mislead customers with their discounted merchandise, a move which enabled them to profit in the vein -LSB-...]
The lattices on the paintings are
amplified against the retail trellises, and together engage larger social frameworks, e.g., commerce, ownership, and identities.
The utility argued
strongly against retail - rate net metering and against using long - term forecasts to set solar rates.
(b) Provisions of the statute which permit only certain Anne Arundel County retailers to sell merchandise essential to, or customarily sold at, or incidental to, the operation of bathing beaches, amusement parks, etc., do not discriminate
invidiously against retailers in other Maryland counties.
Eric Turkewitz wonders about this at his New York Personal Injury Law Blog, as he compares the facts about a recent punitive damages
award against retailer Target with the version presented by Ted Frank at the blog Overlawyered.
Digital currencies like bitcoin may need safeguards against fraud and
guarantees against retail disputes to succeed long - term.
«Gift cards can
work against retailers in some ways, because if a customer doesn't get the full value of their card, they feel jilted,» he says.
«Your online shopping addiction may soon set you back even more as the U.S. Supreme Court this week will hear the
case against retailers that have not been collecting sales tax from customers.»