Shoppers make their way through the Grand Coastal Mall on Black Friday as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continues on November 27, 2020 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA. Micah Green | Reuters Reluctant shoppers found they couldn’t avoid the mall during the vacation. A data analysis released this week by Placer.ai shows how shopper…

Dominic Raab, First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, walks to Downing Street on September 3, 2019 in London, England. Leon Neal | Getty Images News | Getty Images LONDON – The UK has put in place new measures to eradicate the presence of suspected forced labor in UK…

Healthcare workers conduct free Covid-19 tests for people in their cars in the parking lot of the Columbus West Family Health and Wellness Center in Columbus, Ohio on November 19, 2020. Stephen Zenner | AFP | Getty Images Researchers in Ohio said Wednesday that they discovered two new variants of the coronavirus that likely originated…

Like-for-like sales rose 17.2% on Wednesday in November and December, according to Target, as customers bought matching pajamas and gingerbread house kits to celebrate a cozy vacation at home during the pandemic. While online sales remained robust, shoppers also visited Target’s stores, spending more money per purchase than they did last Christmas. The combined transactions…

Customers watch a BYD Han electric vehicle in a mall on July 12, 2020 in Hangzhou, China. Long Wei | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING – As China’s electric car market warms up, Tesla and BYD are among the winners, data for 2020 sales shows. Less than six months after Chinese automaker BYD…

A nurse prepares the Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on January 10, 2021 at a vaccination center in Sarcelles near Paris. ALAIN JOCARD | AFP | Getty Images France is considered one of the most vaccine-skeptical nations in the world. Public distrust of vaccination programs was confirmed in opinion polls before the coronavirus pandemic. In France,…

Passengers arrive on a flight from London under new restrictions to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at JFK International Airport in New York on December 21, 2020. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters The U.S. will soon require passengers to show they recently tested negative for Covid-19 before flying into the country, the Centers for…

An Indiana-based auction house emerges as a technology company amid the coronavirus pandemic, and the disruption caused by the global health crisis has turned a three-year process into an overnight success. KAR Auction Services, based near Indianapolis, has made a name for itself in the used car auction business. As pandemic lockdown made more businesses…

Shoppers wear masks while shopping at a Walmart store in Bradford, Pennsylvania on July 20, 2020. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Janey Whiteside, Walmart’s chief customer officer, said Tuesday that many of its customers are not expecting the economy to recover quickly from the pandemic. Nearly half of customers surveyed in November said Walmart were concerned…

The Trump administration on Tuesday issued new guidelines extending coronavirus vaccine eligibility to anyone aged 65 and over, as well as those with comorbid conditions such as diabetes. States’ focus on vaccinating health care workers and nursing homes has created a bottleneck, a senior administrative official told CNBC, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of…