He figured rebranded and redecorated lots would follow the success of his Blockbuster video chain and become the category killer of car retailing.

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It closed stores, cut costs and transformed the video rental chain into a modern-day Netflix-killer.

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"The killer application is a digital supply chain for Asian SMEs, " he says.

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In 1986 London Greenpeace, a bunch of environmental activists (unconnected with the better-known Greenpeace), published a leaflet denouncing McDonald's, the hamburger chain, as a hazard to human health, a killer of animals, a destroyer of the environment and a mean employer.

ECONOMIST: Libel