Trade War: Chinese state entities in at least 8 provinces are directing employees to use local brands, escalating efforts to promote domestic products over foreign ones.

Multiple 🇨🇳 state firms and government departments across at least 8 provinces — including the prosperous coast — instructed employees in the past month or two to start carrying local brands. That’s a major step-up from around September, when a …

READ MORE

“Ten years ago, people who were stealing were hiding products in their jackets or down their pants. These days they’re filling up a trolley and pushing it back out the front door and they don’t care who sees them.”

Cost-of-Living Stress Fuels Crime Wave in Australia, New Zealand (Bloomberg) — A man strolls out of a New Zealand supermarket carrying bags stuffed with nine stolen legs of lamb. Another pushes out a shopping cart stacked with NZ$1,500 ($896) of …

READ MORE