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Retailers Cancel $1.5B In Bangladesh Clothing Orders Amid Coronavirus
Retail // March 23, 2020

With the COVID-19 pandemic impacting demand, European and American buyers have called off roughly $1.5 billion of Bangladesh clothing orders. Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association President Rubana Huq said on LinkedIn that up to 1,089 clothing manufacturing facilities have seen orders become canceled, Bloomberg...

Musk’s Tweet Implies Tesla Took In 250K Cybertruck Pre-Orders
Retail // November 27, 2019

Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, reportedly suggested that his firm had taken in 250,000 pre-orders for its “Blade Runner”-inspired electric Cybertruck pickup truck. Musk tweeted “250k,” which seemed to suggest, based on his Twitter report in that past, that the figure was the number...

Amazon Calls Out Bloomberg: “Their Story And Sources Are Wrong”
eCommerce // May 29, 2019

The shortened work week got off with a bang, as a report in Bloomberg made the rounds that indicated a long-suspected culling of Amazon marketplace smaller suppliers has officially arrived.   Or to borrow the more dramatic language of many, many headlines written yesterday, “the...

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Amazon Introduces Bigger Trucks For Pandemic-Era Deliveries

July 10, 2020
Amazon has launched a new style of truck that is bigger and boxier, similar to those used by competitors at the United Parcel Service (UPS), Reuters reported. The company is working on fixing the delays in deliveries spurred by the pandemic. Because of those delays, some customers became irate and ended up switching to Walmart’s […]

Retailers Cancel $1.5B In Bangladesh Clothing Orders Amid Coronavirus

March 23, 2020
With the COVID-19 pandemic impacting demand, European and American buyers have called off roughly $1.5 billion of Bangladesh clothing orders. Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association President Rubana Huq said...

Musk’s Tweet Implies Tesla Took In 250K Cybertruck Pre-Orders

November 27, 2019
Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, reportedly suggested that his firm had taken in 250,000 pre-orders for its “Blade Runner”-inspired electric Cybertruck pickup truck. Musk tweeted “250k,” which seemed to...