Retailers

Knife attack in Italy kills 1, wounds soccer player, others

A man grabbed a knife from a supermarket shelf on Oct. 27 and stabbed five people, killing one and wounding four others, including Spanish soccer player Pablo Mari, Italian authorities said.

Police arrested a 46-year-old Italian man suspected in the attack at a shopping center in Assago, a suburb of Milan, carabinieri said.

Report: Mercator to merge certain activities with Konzum

Ljubljana – Dnevnik reports on Tuesday that after the Slovenian retailer Mercator had been transformed from a joint stock company into a limited liability company at the beginning of the month, the procedure has been launched in the region to merge certain business functions of Mercator and the Croatian retail chain of Konzum.

Tesco supermarket warns on profit as inflation bites

Britain's biggest retailer Tesco yesterday warned that soaring inflation would bite into future profit, causing its share price to slide along with those of rival supermarkets.

Tesco said underlying profit was expected to drop in its current financial year after it jumped by more than one third in 2021/22.

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