"They have a giant warehouse so they have to pay rent, pay wages for warehouse employees and carry a huge amount of inventory at their own risk, because not every book is going to get sold, " says 7-Eleven Japan Vice Chairman Masaaki Kamata.

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Philip Morris Companies Inc. says it may buy back-up electrical generators for key plants, and rent additional warehouse space to stockpile inventory.

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For although remarkably few human beings are visible in the harbour itself modern technology has automated much of the process the ports directly or indirectly support about half a million jobs, from longshoremen to truckers and warehouse workers and those who sell and rent to them.

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