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Walmart de Mexicos sales are looking up, with a 2.7 percent increase at stores open for more than a year over the same time last year, according to Reuters on Monday Feb.10 .The company, s stanley cup ometimes known as Walmex, is Mexicos biggest retailer and said its total sales had jumped 4.2 percent since last year.Walmart opened 2 stanley cup usa 14 stores in Mexico in 2013. That was its largest market with over 3,400 stores, and more than any other non-U.S. country. Last year, it opened another 134 stores in Mexico and increased its footprint there by around 5 percent. Most of the new stores are part of the Bodega Aurerra chain, which offers more discounts.Bodega Aurerra is Walmarts attempt to keep up with rivals o stanley cupe ffering simpler marketplaces.Gabriela Buenrostro Ortega, a spokesperson for the company in that region, said the expansions would allow Walmart to keep offering the best possible prices for Mexican families and to continue working for the welfare of the people. She said the expansion of stores would also allow them to provide thousands of new jobs for people there.They also opened 27 additional stores in Central America last year.However, Walmart ran into trouble聽last year when, in Brazil, they settled for $282 million with the聽U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC on charges of bribery. According to the charges, Walmart Brazil had been engaging in bribery to obtain construction permits to build new stores, calling an intermediary sorceress and genie Lssf Today In Retail: Five Below Grows Instacart Partnership; Canada Goose Intends To Go Fur-Free
The next great tech frontier That would be Africa, according to recent comments from Alibaba Group Holdings founder and chairman Jack Ma. The opportunity in eCommerce in Africa lies in the fact that Africa is lacking logistics, infrastructure and payment systems, Ma said at a conference in Johannesburg, according to聽Bloomberg.Digital payments, FinTech and eCommerce are expanding slowly but surely in Africa. In Kenya, banks are pursuing regulatory approval to use distributed ledger techno stanley cup logies to help facilitate payments and create credit scoring models. In Nigeria, Microsoft and First Bank聽are linking up to bring financial services to consumers there.And just this week, Stripe, Visa and other firms invested $8 million in Paystack, a Nigerian firm that enables developers to create payment tools via its APIs and connects multiple payment processors by handling transac gourde stanley tions fo stanley cup r merchants and consumers. In a new PYMNTS interview, CEO Shola Akinlade talks about the challenges of improving payments in his home country, including those related to infrastructure and connectivity.That doesnt mean the path to a larger digital ecosystem will be a smooth one. Despite being home to Africas biggest mobile phone market, Nigeria is seeing a decline in banked adults in the country. Financial inclusion in the African country reportedly has declined close to 4 percentage points from 2014 to 2017, now standing at 39 percent at the same time that the Sub-Saharan African average of banked peopl
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