#retail-sector

#retail-sector

Retail companies are embedding genAI at 2.1 times the rate of financial services. Retail teams are moving projects through the build-test-ship cycle, while finance remains in slower experimentation.

Shares of Kohl's Corporation surged nearly 10% after the abrupt firing of CEO Ashley Buchanan, who had been with the company for just four months.

Costco's impressive dividend growth, with a 10-year compound annual growth rate of 11%, surpasses many competitors, enhancing its reputation as a reliable income stock.

"Today's consultation represents a failure of vision by the PSR. Their proposed remedies fall well short of the robust measures needed to tackle the harms that have arisen from the dominance of the card scheme operators."

A spokesperson for Walgreens Boots Alliance said at the time: Evolving the store estate in this way allows Boots to concentrate its team members where they are needed and focus investment more acutely in individual stores with the ambition of consistently delivering an excellent and reliable service in a fresh and up-to-date environment.

After a six-year legal struggle, the Employment Tribunal ruled that the company had failed to justify paying its predominantly female sales consultants lower hourly wages than their male-dominated warehouse counterparts.