cleaning

Retail Asia26/05/2021

Macro Wholefoods, Woolworths’ health, and food brand, has expanded into the home category with the launch of “Macro Whole Living”, a range of eco-friendly household cleaning products. Products include laundry powders, kitchen liquids and tablets, and multipurpose sprays, which the brand says will help customers keep their homes fresh and clean without harsh chemicals. The […]

Retail Asia10/05/2021

Sam Stone and Christie Kamphuis have been close friends for a long time, and one of the pillars of their friendship has always been going to events together. “We always hated the overflowing bins, and walking over cigarette butts, chewing gum, and cups all over the ground,” Sam bemoans. “When we heard of a few […]

Retail Asia09/10/2020

South Korean oil refiner GS Caltex Corp has bought an 11.56 percent stake in car-wash startup Vietwash for $1.7 million. Nguyen Thanh Duong, founder of Vietwash, said the money would be used to double the number of outlets to over 100 in the next few years. It now offers car and motorbike wash services at […]

Retail Asia11/07/2019

If you were worried that your kids and their kids will never get to enjoy the music video for the late Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin'” in high quality, you can now stop thinking about that and concentrate on more important matters. Google announced yesterday on the YouTube blog that it is teaming up with Universal Music […]

Retail Asia26/04/2019

US retailer Walmart is adding thousands of robots to its stores to handle cleaning tasks, allowing workers more time to help customers. Walmart said by February 2019, it will have introduced the 920-pound autonomous floor scrubbers at 1,860 of its 4,700 US stores. The robots will clean the floors and unload boxes in its stockrooms. The “smart assistants” […]

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Macro launches eco-friendly household cleaning products range

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Korean firm invests in Vietnam car-wash chain

YouTube and Universal Music clean up Adam Levine, Lady Gaga and other artists

Walmart Hires robots to handle cleaning and unboxing