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Many supermarkets in Hanoi are starting to impose social distancing, limiting the number of customers and the volume of foodstuffs they buy. BigC Thang Long Supermarket stipulated that each customer is allowed to buy a maximum three-egg blisters a day, while…
Indonesian retailer Hero Supermarket on Wednesday said it will sell its poorly performing Starmart convenience store business to local food conglomerate Wings Group. Hero is selling about 80 Starmart outlets to Fajar Mitra Indah, a unit of Wings Group and the…
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