the environment is not responsible make up your own mind. dw, made for mines. the $21.00 to expensive tough team, high price jewelry, or simply new brand names to me cuz you pay for the rice. some people in the us have a different take, however, they don't use guns and knives for that robberies. thanks. if you come in huge groups, individual retainers and now sounding the alarm. this type of gang crime is costing them more every year in 2022 for example, retailers last a good $112000000000.00 us dollars. as a result. what's the solution? we take a look in this edition of maids d, w 's business magazine. we'll also be

taking a look at why russia's economy is still humming how companies want to de, coupled from china and how robots are becoming more and more human. philadelphia los angeles, san francisco, chicago, just a few examples of the big cities across the us facing yet another wave of organized retail crime, another uptake of so called smashing grap and flash them obsessed incidents. a growing problem for national and local retailers beacon small with merchandise worth billions of dollars lost or at risk. robert co president of the illinois retail merchant association. he is one of many sounding deal. we're

now seeing for the 1st time organize retail crime and retail staff to showing up in the reports that are issued by publicly traded corporations that never used to be the case. and that should be a wake of called everyone just as serious. this is philadelphia september 26th, 2023. in the early evening hours, a flash mob forensics and apple store, it takes just a minute or 2 laptops i ipads, iphones worth tens of thousands of dollars are stolen or destroyed. just a day later, a virgin megastore is it and what appears to be a smash and grip. a metal gate is kept windows and doors are smashed in. then the crowd slots the store within just one or 2 minutes. it's all over the recipe for success. when police finally arrives, the perpetrators along go. these are groups of young people that are coordinated. this is orchestrated. this is not an impulse of con, this is planned full. and today the planning is done on the phone.

i can bring together a group of my compatriots with the text. we can plan what we're going to do, where we're going to do it. and when we're going to do it with our phone, you don't need to be in, in a dark rooms. planning in a basement anywhere. you can communicate a spontaneously and in real time on the phone. awful. originally o gives a lot of interviews these days. local media are asking the criminal justice in psychology, professor to weigh in. when ever there's a new smashing grap incident in the city, and there are quite a few. the most popular targets height and retailers and department stores on chicago was magnificent miles or mag mile, as locals. call it north, strong, neiman marcus, leave a total cabinet. the tools and other luxury retailers all hits by completed or at least attempted smashing grafts. these got so bad the chicago police department and

the cook county sheriffs office have visibly stepped up, their presence on mac mile. recently, more officers on foot patrol. the nice try, but ultimately ineffective critics say we really need is aggressive 0 tolerance prosecution. and unfortunately we really don't have aggressive prosecute action. and that sends the message then that it's ok that even though is that what we mean there is kelly and say be in slash. they co own a unique street where and sneakers, door, called fleet stores in chicago was little italy district far from the climber and plates of downtown's mag month. there is a fabian, have been victims of the templates and completed smashing graphs 6 times so far. i think um were so attractive to them because of what, you know, the product that we can, you know, it's really hard to find street where that's not that available in chicago where we're located and it's only a certain amount that you can get in certain places that you can get it believe is

successful smashing griffin. their store happened in october 23 and they brought it was a game changer for theirs. and saving because this happened in the early morning hours of october 25th, a ca smashed into the store front. at least 5 mast perpetrators grab as much merchandise as can in just minutes. then they'll even waiting cars is how we get a car, maybe 3 or 4 or 5 of them will know what it is already, let me know to or the other 2 hours. and then once that got okay there was that, oh my goodness. and then to get here that the care on my phone and i see it, gee, who interviewed us over here and they almost by merchandise worth $70000.00. got damage to the property around $30000.00 insurance. no, it's a missed that there is insurance for retail theft. there is no insurance for retails left. there is insurance for property. um, so if you know you in property,

meaning if they broke a window or smashed through a window or door tore down displays, those things could be covered, but it is impacting rates. and often the retailers have to decide if it's worth it to report. they've been hit multiple times. if they report every time they're hit uh to the insurance company, their insurance rates skyrocket and they can no longer in for an insurance, regular way, man or the club owner, sledge, and kelly. you have to eat the cost for the last merchandise and property insurance premiums ro, significantly on top of that. they have to invest even more and secure. more cameras and sensors fully on security got reinforced shop window frames, bullets resisting glass and bars in the front of the store, all adding up to operating costs for the community. there's a sense of helplessness to the retailers, especially feel hopelessness. they're doing everything they can up to certain limit to protect their business. the illinois attorney general has recently created

a task force to combat smashing graph crime. california as governor, has promised hundreds of millions of dollars more over the next 5 years for the fight against organized retail crime. other cities and states in the us are following suit in one way or another. not a quick fix business to say, but the 1st step in the right direction a good 2 years since the spouse of the russian war is the question that goes to craig. and often more and more sanctions from western countries. the russian economy is still doing surprisingly well. contrary to pull expectations, wine is that the production is ramped up. again, orders are being placed in the construction industry and tourism is booming in

russia. so i think if there is this great growth forecast of i think 2.6 percent at the same time, vital income from the sale of natural gas has fallen dramatically. russia lost, it's made by everything that you as a result of western sanctions, just how well as the russian economy performing and how much longer can the country afford to wages war of aggression against ukraine. russia's investing billions of bureaus in new pipelines for natural gas, one toward china was recently opened. the russians urgently need new customers. their volume was involved with the 5 lies, i'm. busy very different when you compare them. ready wanted to finalize conference board the to today you all kinds of sports to, to china, and even the new infrastructure of products. like all else, i'd be a to us 1000000000 date. you fund state the what's more the price of natural gas is

falling before natural gas. i expect a downward pressure on prices to continue. mainly because of u. n. g supply company online uh, towards the end of this year and the beginning of next year. russian is dependent on this income to pay for its import imports like components for the automotive industry, which are increasingly coming from china after the europeans withdrew from russia. the industry has already been able to recover things to deliveries from china. the russian economy is being kept afloat, including with computer technology. see that the china is, of course, not officially participating in the sanctions. so it's not a partner of the western states, so to speak, when it comes to sanction sort tobacco visitors documents, sometimes feeling good. goods continued to find their way to russia, despite sanctions, even from germany,

simply by being routed via 3rd countries. exports to kick us down, for example, have exploded and surprise, surprise, it's mostly cars. the stuff gets true that the russian economy is growing. but of course you have to say from what the level it's growing so to speak. and what kind of growth is it just said bucks to take tourism, for example, because the plains from russia are no longer allowed to land in the u. many russians go on vacation in their own country. more important is the defense industry, the real driver of growth. it generates 10 percent of g d. p. other sectors, such as the steel industry, also benefit. according to russian data, the economy is growing faster than most western countries. far along the slump in 2022 i see a specialist english. what's, what's happening right now is that russia is actually in a way, almost ironically,

becoming more like the soviet union in that it has high spending on the military. and to some extent, heavy industry, while at the same time, the level of consumption is falling for the population. and that is the profile, so to speak, that ultimately brought the soviet union to it's needed of us if this is a way to do it. now how do you think that's the process? in contrast to the soviet union put in can afford to do this by incurring debt. this come of the concepts you can ride that for quite a while. rush, i had a very low debt level at the start of the war and still has a low debt level even now. and so it's done. russia is unlikely to run out of money anytime soon. revenues from oil sales are roughly the same as they were before the war and ukraine, despite sanctions aimed at enforcing a price cap of $60.00 us dollars per barrel of transportation. all i left

um probably are violating that because so there is a we, i'm for as many to on the side of the ideas. there is also a shadow trading uh where you know, all the is uh, uh, discharged. uh and the charge of the on another bus or the. ready caesar more and more oil is ending up in india. it's the most important oil supplier is now a restaurant of the sanctions against russia failed. have they impacted the war over say, sanctions were or less so um because they actually kind of they divided them over to the also i'm for example alan g project. i know the lesson for western countries, including the u, is certainly that it's almost impossible to impose water type sanctions on a country of this size box that this is antonia china is having the last class. it's being supplied with natural gas and oil. it's

a low the world market price, and it's selling more goods to russia with virtually no competition from the west. de risk in o d competing? that's currently the big question when it comes to telling us so many gym and companies. the country is extremely important as a production location and as a market. but they also want to remain castle under increasing the looking for new strategies in dealing with the people's republic. that's also the case of a medium sized company. bbm pumps have around 2000 if that nearly 15000 employees worldwide work in china. this is mostly in the town of just under 4000 in southwestern germany, my 1st impression the small town doesn't look as if there any major international

companies operating there for the place is known as the valley of the fans. there is just one company, a bmw passed the field under the door like many other german medium sized companies in manufacturing, end paps is also focused on china because any of the country, both as a production location itself and as a sales of market types of types locked on and they are now drawing up plans to reduce the risk so they're trying to business either see not get shipped to we don't see of them. the company has almost 15000 employees worldwide, which around 2000 are in china. m perhaps has been producing that for almost 30 years. i have an appointment with thomas noon, becker, head of asia. he has to join the video conference to talk to his colleagues in shanghai however. so i have time to check out the show room. the fans manufactured here, i used in many different industries, sometimes for cooling, largest,

semi conductor factories sometimes installed in small heat pumps for the home. yeah, so when i come to a meeting, so it's good to 0. i'm joining the video conference. the i'm is to make china, i'm more self sufficient location since there have always been supply chain disruptions in the past. such as during the corona virus pandemic, with a new headquarters in shanghai operations are to become more self sufficient, including the infrastructure to yes. so all this means that the china business is becoming more independent of the headquarters in germany. local for local is the new strategies and the monitors i yeah, we've been doing local for local for several years now. and we're also trying to

the couple of the supply chains, the examples, and we're also trying to develop and prepare various scenarios with different plans and for to provide a home. for example, we're planning to be able to relocate production lines from china to india within 2 to 3 months and young, even if we don't hire and the engine back to have to be me. so to mr. me the heisman, basically we want to manufacturer and china afford china and want to achieve a 95 percent globalization rate there. and then the in the next 2 years. okay, the overall delta eyes and even in times of increasing geopolitical tensions, the goal is for the business to stay intact. well, the strategy work we discussed this with company bus close guy store for he is currently rethinking the globalization strategy of the past few decades. as 2 components as possible should be sent back and forth between europe, asia, pacific,

and america. everything should be supplied, produced, and sold locally. i ask him specifically, what would happen if more suddenly broke out between china and taiwan. we have gotten emily set up our organization in china in such a way that we can separate the chinese company from the rest of the world at any time within a very short period of time. we are preparing for this and we are prepared for it. and i can't yet st wouldn't be, must do in this specific case. and if i have such an event occurs is a b and perhaps new strategy, an isolated case or a general trend. i ask you konami's expert during motus and cologne. if, if they were seen companies in china actually focusing more and more strongly unload was ation. this means that many companies seem to be focusing much more on their

own trying their business. this is obviously possible and many companies are moving in this direction to maxim olson c o close guys door for is certain that although the new strategy will cost more money in the short term, it will pay off over the long haul for the environment to since transporting fewer goods means saving more c o 2 emissions. so, i've been sitting on my voice base to, but we are increasingly moving away from how we originally thought about globalization, like moving production and by a global networks and to wherever the costs are lowest. regardless of where they are in the world, and can you mail me a time to say goodbye? probably also a farewell to the globalization. we thought we knew the cost of goods and major economic block such as china, the you in the us are drifting further and further apart the total. and that's why companies are increasing the relying on the new strategy of having local supply

chains. as long as the political tensions continue to rise, this trend is likely to continue in full flight to the new original ization strategy will reduce the risk of globalized supply chains the industrial side and most again, we'll also have to focus more on the european markets. the little on tap humanoid robots, that's a global race on the for the best ones. so they can look faster than we can just styles with the public. thanks to all sufficient intelligence, they often already superior to humans when it comes to calculation problems and factual knowledge. but will they soon be able to think and act independently? likely, android named data uninstall, track memory su,

wanted you to have it is possible or is that still science fiction? the robots can walk almost as well as humans, with a head, arms, torso and legs. example one, humanoid robots atlas from boston dynamics is one of them is supposed to help with the work and even construction scaffolding isn't a problem for him. it's a lot. but is he actually able to think? atlas has amazing dynamics. it can do amazing physical things, but he doesn't talk. it's not a robot that could give you information. experts are expecting great progress and robot development. and where would they be used in industry? would be have the board which can walk away and run, then jump and things like that. i definitely do think even in the next couple of is able to see human lives, you know, doing that much better than humans. the 500 employees at boston dynamics are

working in teams. on the most advanced humanoid ever. atlas has its own battery and ways, 86 kilos. he learns from mistakes when he calls down and learns to plan his steps. to a predictor controller is a way of doing controls by thinking about what's going to happen in the future. and a really simple example is that when you stand up as a person, your heart has to pump harder to make sure you have enough blood pressure. you do that, and in fact, if you look at people's heart rates, they go up before they start seeing your body sort of thinking about what is my heart going to need to do now. so that in half a 2nd and ready to be standing humanoid robots as workers, a huge market. this is the high tech trade fair, c e s. in the us. we're, chinese manufacturers are exhibiting the unique tree h. one thing, the future way, amount of property to the probably all just the robots as a general purpose for different any of the street and back out warehouse logistics

and the specially the how does it and the environment to replace, to mac. they're already being tested in warehouse is operated by g, x o and amazon. the us manufacturer, agility has launched a prototype on the market that is able to pick out packages and place them on the conveyor belts. the and that's what makes, even though it's different than other robots, is they're able to do more adaptable workloads because the geometry is very similar to a person. tesla is also working on is human noise optimists. but when will human noise robots be able to think and solve problems? will answer this question at the end of the video. example number 200 pet robots. they are called quanto pads. quadra stands for 4 and pads for feats . in other words,

4 legs. they are already commonly used commercially in industry. spock from boston dynamics performs inspections, films and logs problems and can turn levers. such robots could soon become the heavy laborers of the human race. we wanted to wash your dishes in a dishwasher or be in a manufacturing plant, you know, assembling guys are, you know, be in with houses, you know, lifting things and putting them like really doing things where, you know, humans feel that they're unsafe or doing something with the status for them and they really don't want to do it. spock is also inaction at the german mail order company auto key does patrols and checks on the complex systems. opportunity ask you an

example number 3 avatars. hello again. so these look more like humans than humanoids. they have skin, facial expressions, and i'm movements so fear from the manufacturer. hanson robotics has her own hardware and software, but her thinking power is enhanced because she has access to an online database. hi, sophia rock paper scissors. shoot, i want my plan to dominate the human race. sophia already babbles a lot, but it will certainly be a long time before she is really intelligent. example number for the perfect android called data, which is so far, only been seen in the film and tv show star trek. i revive the crew key has empathy and can find his way everywhere. he helps people solve problems. will he

soon become a reality? every is this a slab at this point in time wants to deadlock overboard. so let's campaigns on the spot and have intelligence. but i think that's not a question. i think the question is, how long will it take us to get to i think the idea of human rights robots being equal to humans in intellect and social capability is pretty far off. still, i think we're quite far away from that. researchers are waiting for the big breakthrough. the, the robots from boston dynamics can already danced the same way humans can but they don't think or feel anything the and that's it for this week's edition of maids forget,

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