British supermarkets were under renewed pressure to clean up abuses in their supply chains yesterday as a Guardian investigation revealed that 40 Bulgarians found by the authorities to be illegally employed and exploited by a gangmaster in Cornwall were picking and packing vegetables destined for Tesco and Morrisons. The Bulgarians said they were forced to "live like pigs on scraps"‚ scavenging vegetables from the fields when their Latvian gangmaster withheld their pay for 34 days. They were
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Taobao-user in Hong Kong makes an average of 780 transactions in a year. Photo: Thomas Yau Market research by China’s biggest e-commerce site found men twice as likely as women to be “uncontrollable shopaholics”‚ meaning that although they spend less time SHOPPING ONLINE‚ they tend to buy double the amount of items on each haul. A "field guide" produced by ALIBABA’S Taobao Marketplace also found that at least one million users each spend more than 50‚000 yuan (HK$62‚000) yearly online. That’s an impressive
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The graph which we collect data from question 5 gives information about the proportion of the extent of HSU students doing shopping online. An important point to mention is that the number of students do shopping online are not frequently. As a general trend‚ 55% of students buy products online on special occassions or holidays. In addition‚ the rate of student shop online in weekly is less than in monthly‚ with 6% for doing shopping online in weekly and 17% in monthly. In the rest percentage‚ students
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Is shopping online a good choice? How can you get good value for money during shopping? Over the past years‚ shopping online has a rapid rise because of the mushroom of development of computer science which seems incredible. A large amount of people prefer shopping on E-bay or Taobao and believe it has numerous advantages and benefits. Nevertheless‚ other rational people have a question: Is online shopping all that much better? In order to solve this question‚ this paper will discuss whether online
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Naomi Blow Penny Freeland ENG 1010 P01 30 May 2014 Descriptive Essay: Day at the beach As the orange hue cast over the gentle sea‚ the waves sang out a sweet and soothing lullaby – that describes the weather for that day. That of gentle and rhythmic motion or that of crashing in a turbulent motion‚ as the tide edges forward or the edges retreat. All the while‚ allowing me to reminisce about my childhood. Memories of scooping up the featherlike sand and remolding it into magnificent images of
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Online Shopping In India! Are we ready for it yet? Online shopping has evolved in India after failure of tele-shopping (due to its limited market penetration) and now along with mall culture‚ online shopping is slowly getting acceptance from the Indian society. Let us look at the barriers of online shopping and how online shopping grew‚ thus making India ready for it. Barriers towards online shopping * Internet penetration is low in India‚ thus people were unaware of online shopping and were
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More and more people are doing online shopping nowadays. Why? If this trend continues‚ what do you think will be the consequences? Shopping fuels economies worldwide. In our complex lifestyle‚ shopping has been a major activity and that is the reason‚ our streets are lined up with shopping destinations - shops‚ superstores‚ malls and so on. But since few years‚ methods of shopping have been changing‚ thanks to the internet. When the concept of e-shopping was introduced‚ no one anticipated that
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`English 9H 5/2/12 Animal Farm Descriptive Essay A fable is a fictional‚ usually‚ short story that provides a lesson or moral at the end. Most of the time‚ fables with include animals or objects that can talk and act like humans. In Animal Farm‚ by George Orwell‚ the animals show similarities to humans. Orwell used this technique to relate farm animals to key figures in the Russian Revolution. Also‚ it adds creativity to
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Online Shopping: Benefits and Hazards I chose Online Shopping: benefits and hazards. The reason for choosing this topic is because I do a lot of online shopping. It’s convenient for me because I don’t have to get out into the mix of traffic on the highway and I don’t have to fight the traffic inside the stores. I like shopping online because I don’t have to worry about them locking the door‚ turning the lights out on me‚ or announcing over the intercom “attention shoppers‚ the store will be
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Benefits Of Online Shopping Monday‚ March 4‚ 2013 Editor’s Note: Being web design and development firm with an eCommerce Department‚ we have quite a few customers coming our way to outsource their digital commerce projects to our team of graphic designers and web/mobile programmers. Ecommerce has become so popular and profitable because of a number of online shopping benefits buyers have discovered since the beginning of the electronic commerce era. This article tells about some advantages of online
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