Carlos Mendez 
US retailers are likely to announce fewer holiday 2026 seasonal jobs than in 2025, a year that already marked the weakest peak hiring since 2009. Three signals from late July and early August point to peak capacity being bought as automation capex rather than temporary staff, with the first checkpoint due when the seasonal outlooks publish in late September 2026.
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Nestlé reported 3.6% organic growth for the first half of 2026 as pricing and a coffee-led recovery lifted sales, while e-commerce reached 21.8% of group revenue. Net profit fell 31% on divestment write-downs as CEO Philipp Navratil pressed ahead with a CHF 3 billion cost program and a bottled-water joint venture.
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From July 19, 2026, large EU companies can no longer destroy unsold clothes, accessories and footwear and must resell, donate or recycle them instead. Medium-sized firms follow in 2030, with fines and annual disclosure rules backing the ban.
U.S. retailers are on track to move a record 2.47 million containers through the nation’s ports this month, even as ocean freight rates finally start …
Three signals from June and July 2026 (a live payments rail, a platform at general availability, and an agentic hiring wave) point to agentic checkout becoming a named sales channel before year-end. Expect at least one major US retailer to cite agent-referred or proxy sales in Q3 or Q4 investor commentary.
Kroger is likely to formalize a structured price-investment program under Greg Foran, its version of the Walmart US everyday-value playbook, most plausibly confirmed at Q2 earnings in September 2026. Three signals from the last month, Foran’s pricing critique, resumed store closures, and accelerating retail-media profit, point to a self-funded reset.
Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have offered more than $53 billion, or $60.50 a share, to buy PayPal. The unsolicited bid marks one of the largest deals in payments history and faces steep antitrust hurdles.
French underwear brand Le Slip Français listed on Euronext Growth Paris on Bastille Day at 14.80 euros a share. The micro-cap listing is a bet that made-in-France apparel can win as Shein and Temu face tougher EU rules.