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Home Depot said retail theft continues to be a challenge.CFO Richard McPhail said the operating environment is “getting harder and harder.”However, the executive said investments to combat shoplifting and organized theft “are paying off.” Shoplifting and organized retail crime was a dominant story in retail last year.While the issue hasn’t…
By Savyata Mishra (Reuters) -Home Depot forecast a smaller drop in annual same-store sales on Tuesday, benefiting from resilient demand from professional contractors, as well as a lift from hurricane-related spending in the current quarter. The top U.S. home improvement chain also posted better-than-anticipated third-quarter results, a stark contrast from…
Home Depot now requires corporate employees to spend one day each quarter working in a retail store.The move revives a long-standing practice that was suspended during the pandemic.Software developers on social media reacted especially favorably to the move. The next orange-aproned employee who helps you match a paint swatch at…
Ukraine said it carried out a drone attack on a Russian ammunition depot over the weekend.Kyiv said Iranian missiles had arrived at the site shortly before the attack.Russia received a number of short-range ballistic missiles from Iran earlier this month. Ukrainian forces used long-range drones to strike an ammunition depot…
By Tom Balmforth and Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine attacked eight Russian regions with dozens of long-range strike drones early on Saturday, setting ablaze a fuel depot and hitting three power substations, an intelligence source in Kyiv told Reuters. The overnight attack, which was confirmed by the defence ministry…
