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Customers stand socially distanced as they queue to enter Amazon’s new Amazon Fresh store in Ealing, west London. Amazon, last week, opened the first of its Amazon Fresh grocery stores in Europe, where customers will be able to buy goods without the need to queue at a checkout. Customers will scan a QR code on their way into the store, with cameras and technology identifying the items shoppers take from the shelves.—AFP A security challenge worthy of a Bond movie Firms are using armed guard...

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Bloomberg Businessweek. Bloomberg on February 25 under the title, “Sneakerheads Have Turned Jordans and Yeezys Into a Bona Fide Asset Class”, Joe Hebert revealed that he was actually “West Coast Joe”, the person behind West Coast Streetwear (WCS), a popular name in the reseller business. Continue reading below ↓ According to Nice Kicks, WCS had a “seemingly incredible ability to get a hold of an incredible amount of highly coveted releases,” like a stash of four Nike Mags he c...

In the US the idea has been supported in a series of SCOTUS decisions, starting with Dartmouth College in 1818. Most legal scholars point to the 1886 Santa Clara County v, Southern Pacific RR decision as having established the legal precedent for “corporate personhood” (with the help of the Court Reporter; one Bancroft Davis, a former RR executive who ‘wrongly’ claimed that the Court had ruled that corporations had 14th Amendment protections. It had not; while the justices orally agr...

10 Weekend Reads February 27, 2021 6:45am by Barry Ritholtz The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Portland Organic French Roast coffee, grab a seat by the window and get ready for our longer form weekend reads: • Sneakerheads Have Turned Jordans and Yeezys Into a Bona Fide Asset Class When the pandemic presented a buy-low opportunity, one college dropout hit the road and filled his truck with $200,000 worth of kicks. The sneaker boom has crea...