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Deforestation in Brazil: NGO Mighty Earth points finger of blame at Carrefour

French retail giant Carrefour is accused of deforestation in the Amazon. According to global advocacy group Mighty Earth, the group sources ingredients from meat and soy traders with shocking practices. Carrefour controls roughly a quarter of the food distribution market in Brazil. For more, we speak to Alex Wijeratna, Senior…

France 24

Could the blockchain restore consumer trust and food security?

Despite attempts to label the blockchain as a disruptive “trust machine”, the tangible business applications of this nascent technology have yet to take shape in practice and be more visible for customers.

The Conversation

My trip to festival showed Scotland and Quebec have much in common

TO visit the Carrefour International (“International Crossroads”) theatre festival in Québec City is – for me, as a theatre critic,…

The National (Scotland)

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Shanghai to reopen subways in slow easing of Covid lockdown

Shanghai has taken steps to begin easing its draconian lockdown, including by opening four of its subway lines on Sunday.

Evening Standard

Some in Shanghai allowed out to shop; end of COVID lockdown in sight

More Shanghai residents were given the freedom to go out to shop for groceries for the first time in nearly two months on Thursday as authorities set out more plans for exiting the city-wide COVID-19 lockdown more fully.

Reuters

Job Fair Offers Hope to Young Unemployed in Iraqi Province

In an Iraqi province where unemployment is about 40 percent, a lucky few hoped to find work Sunday at a university job fair attended by French firms alongside local companies. The three-day event is taking place at the University of Mosul in Iraq's war-ravaged second city, where reconstruction has been…

Asharq Al-Awsat

In Shanghai lockdown, Carrefour staff sleeps at store to keep residents supplied

To prepare the 3,000-plus orders of vegetables, meat and essentials her Carrefour supermarket sends out every day to locked-in Shanghai residents, manager Zhang Wei wakes at 5 a.m. after a night in a sleeping bag on her office floor.

Reuters

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Reuters Carrefour Aims To Install EV Charging Stations

Benzinga

Carrefour Aims To Install EV Charging Stations: Reuters

French retail giant Carrefour (OTC:CRRFY) is planning to install electric vehicle charging stations in its hypermarkets, Reuters reported. The company will install 700 electric vehicle charging stations and 5,000 charging points by 2025. The first charging station will be accessible to customers in the carpark of the La Chapelle Saint-Luc hypermarket in Troyes,…

Benzinga

How Amazon inspired France's new unicorn: Robotics startup Exotec CEO on success

The robotics startup Exotec has become France's 25th unicorn company, valued at $2 billion after its latest fundraising round. The firm makes robots for e-commerce depots, and counts big names like Carrefour, Uniqlo and Decathlon among its customers. Exotec's CEO Romain Moulin told FRANCE 24 the inspiration for the company…

France 24

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