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Analysis: Will the market pay 7-Eleven’s $2 billion asking price?

Inside Retail

7-Eleven Holdings is following Woolworths, Coles and Peregrine’s OTR’s exits from the volatile retail petroleum market, which now must adapt to the challenge of electric vehicles and potentially other alternative fuels.

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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

Technologies like RFID tagging and blockchain are already helping proactive brands begin better trace their products through the supply chain from point of origin to point of sale. times more carcinogenic sulfur oxide emissions than all road vehicles in the United States combined, or 2 billion trucks and cars.” million American homes.

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The Electric Hummer Is a Mix Between an Ambulance and a Race Car

Robinson Meyer

Even its name, which ported one of the most famous gas-guzzling brands of all time to the world of zero-emissions vehicles, was a kind of taunt. Then he realizes that his vehicle is hurtling—at highway speed—toward three lanes of cars idling at a stoplight. “Oh Why are electric trucks so heavy? Barseghian moans in pleasure.

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