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Italy: Italian retail exports are in the hands of Amazon (USA) and Lidl (Germany)
Amazon, €3.8 billion export for Italian SMEs Source. The other major exporter is the discount chain Lidl, which below claims to export € 2.4 billion.
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Chemical spies: the world’s largest democracy wants to make a law on the world’s biggest hoax
Source
The level of the Trump government is this, as they deforest all over the place and remove references to climate change almost everywhere in government agencies. Disconcerting.
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Wine with, without alcohol and winetours
On alcohol-free wine, the EU goes against the positions of Coldiretti (opposed to alcohol-free wine perhaps because its membership base does not like it? Or because progress is against it, as in the case of cultivated meat?).
On the phrase - see below - by Roberta Garibaldi 'The drop in consumption is fought with winetours to producers' homes' we are very doubtful: those who do not consume do not go to the cellar.
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Tesco will give away expired food to customers
This is a trial that will be carried out in selected Tesco Expresses. Source
This is very difficult to do in Italy: in Esselunga we had a 50% discount on fish and many employees hid the packets in the back of the supermarket in the morning and then took it to the till in the evening.
At Dominick's, in dairy products, for example, there was a discount when the yoghurt expired but there was a risk, in my opinion, of poisoning the customers.
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Monday will be the first day of operation of TikTok Shop in Italy, France and Germany
TikTok shop has been present since 2022 in the UK and since September 2023 in the US, it is clearly an entry in direct competition in e-commerce with giants like Shein, Temu or Amazon, but experience in other countries has shown that TikTok Shop has created its own space in some cases with very good numbers
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China-US trade war: Dollar Tree sells Family Dollar for $1 billion
In the first half of the fiscal year 2024, Dollar Tree closed 600 Family Dollar shops. The causes: competition from Temu (Family Dollar sells mainly non-food) and Walmart...
Dollar Tree, based in Chesapeake, Virginia, operated 16,500 diacounts in 48 states and five Canadian provinces as of 1 February. The shops include the Dollar Tree, Family Dollar and Dollar Tree Canada brands.
Compiled 26 March, updated 27 March 2025
