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Recent Examples of job lotWhere some other towns operating similar schemes have put together a job lot of houses for €1, Castiglione di Sicilia is pricing the properties according to their condition.—Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021
This will include school supplies and household essentials from Amazon Basics (starting at $3) and summer fashion from Amazon Essentials (starting at $12).
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Shelby Slade,
AZCentral.com,
6 July 2025
Energy operators had to cut off electricity to customers — because supply couldn’t meet the growing energy demand — for 21 hours as a measure to prevent larger-scale blackouts.
For example, Walmart purchased Vizio, a maker of flat-screen televisions (a commodity product in every discount department store); and Home Depot recently purchased SRS Distribution, a building products distributor.
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Greg Petro,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
None of these companies own any mines or farms, but all three want to be indispensable in the next phase of Africa’s commodity supply chain story.
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Olumuyiwa Olowogboyega,
semafor.com,
14 July 2025
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