Companies Warn Of ‘unprecedented’ Cost Pressures As Inflation Fears Grow

China’s COVID-zero approach has led it to impose harsh travel curbs, together with a swift lockdown on a city of 13 million people. Thousands in China trying to bypass supermarkets and chain shops buy their foods from rural farms that cater personally to them at a small premium. This is a model new effort by the town’s native government to lure anybody with symptoms to get examined for the virus without having to contact trace them. Customers at all 2,900 McDonald’s shops in Japan will solely be capable of buy small-sized servings of fries for every week starting this Friday.…