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Work on new legislation on e-commerce, which would include regulations protecting local companies, is expected to be finalized and submitted to parliament soon.

The new law aims to curb the fast growth in the industry and guard against the competition, according to daily Milliyet.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in April unveiled plans to introduce new rules for e-commerce.

CarrefourSA, one of Turkey's largest retailers, plans to add 300 new outlets to its vast network of supermarkets this year.

"Some 250 of the stores will open under the franchising system. In 2022, already 80 such stores were launched by March," said Kutay Kartallığoğlu, the general manager of CarrefourSA.

It took the intervention of Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis for Lidl, the German international discount retailer chain, to drop a lawsuit against a destitute, elderly woman who on 12 February was caught stealing food, meat and cheese reportedly worth 30-40 euros, at the chain's store in Ilion, Western Athens

With a turnover of 9.26 billion euros and net profits of over 145 million euros, the big 7 of the organized retail sector were the most profitable in the domestic retail trade in 2020.

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) and D-Market Electronic Services and Trading, the company behind Turkish e-commerce giant Hepsiburada, will jointly establish an artificial intelligence center, Industry and Technology Minister Mustafa Varank said on Sept. 12.

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Major non-food chains warn they do not rule out "staging protests and various forms of civil disobedience" if they are not allowed to open - without an "artificial distinction based on stores' overall shopping area."

Ljubljana – Swedish furniture group Ikea opened its much-anticipated first store in Slovenia on Thursday. “Although this is not an opening we expected, we are grateful to be here today,” Sara Del Fabbro, the CEO at Ikea South East Europe, said at today’s inauguration event in Ljubljana’s BTC shopping district amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Smart Park, the shopping complex constructed by REDS, has received a distinction in the "Renovation & Expansion" category of the ICSC European Shopping Center Awards 2019.
REDS is currently proceeding with the second stage of the Spata-based mall's development, expected to be completed this fall.

There were no gigantic midnight queues as the gates of stores or shopping malls across Turkey in the early hours of Nov. 23, but every year the country embraces the so-called "Black Friday" shopping spree, with more online businesses joining discount campaigns.