Lulu goes to a department store to exchange her doll for something else. While looking for a new item, Lulu manages to terrorize the section manager, ski down the escalators, and cause a Noahic flood in the store. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films…

The Floorwalker was Charlie Chaplin’s first Mutual Film Company film, made in 1916. It starred Chaplin as a customer in a department store who finds out the manager is stealing money from the store. It was noted for the first “running staircase” used in films. Edna Purviance played a minor role as a secretary to…

British convenience store chain McColl’s has confirmed it will collapse into administration, putting 1,100 shop and 16,000 workers at risk. The troubled retailer held talks with its lenders on Friday morning in the hope they could extend their loan agreements. Supermarket giant Morrisons, which is a major wholesale partner, also tabled a last-ditch effort to…

SAN JOSE, Calif.—A weekend fire gutted a Home Depot store in the San Francisco Bay Area, sending up a huge plume of smoke and prompting orders for some nearby residents to shelter in place, authorities said. The five-alarm blaze in South San Jose erupted around 5 p.m. Saturday and took about six hours to contain…

AMSTERDAM—The Dutch antitrust watchdog fined Apple 5 million euros ($5.7 million) on Monday, its fourth such fine for failing to allow software application makers in the Netherlands to use non-Apple payment methods for dating apps on the App Store. The Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has been levying weekly fines of 5 million euros…

LONDON—Tesco, Britain’s biggest retailer, said on Tuesday 1,600 roles were at risk of redundancy due to operational changes at stores, including the removal of night shifts to restock shelves. The group said it was moving its overnight stock replenishment into the daytime in 36 large stores and 49 convenience stores. In 36 stores, it will…

LOS ANGELES—Authorities arrested a 31-year-old man Wednesday in connection with the slaying of a woman while she worked at a Los Angeles furniture store last week. Shawn Laval Smith was taken into custody shortly before noon Wednesday in Pasadena, according to a Twitter post by the Los Angeles Police Department. Someone recognized Smith from photos…

The Netherlands’ top competition regulator on Friday said Apple Inc. broke the country’s competition laws and ordered changes to the iPhone maker’s App Store payment policies. Apple’s practice of requiring app developers to use its in-app payment system and pay commissions of 15 percent to 30 percent on digital goods purchases has come under scrutiny…

KIBBUTZ YAHEL, ISRAEL—The southern tip of Israel is a rocky desert where solar panels are abundant and the sun, when shining, is the source of nearly all electricity. Once it sets, however, the grid shifts back to fossil fuels to generate power. Renewable energy from solar and wind powered systems cannot be stored without extra…

Apple Inc. on Wednesday won a reprieve from having to make major changes to its lucrative App Store while it appeals an antitrust lawsuit brought by “Fortnite” creator Epic Games. In September, a judge ordered Apple to change its App Store rules, which ban developers from including links in buttons to outside payment systems rather…