so is it worth your p and security basically depends to 90 percent on the us out to call and tell commentary. serious thoughts. april full on dw, the 21 too expensive, tough team, high price jewelry, or simply new brand names to me cuz you pay for them, right? some people in the us have a different take, however, they don't use guns with knives for that rubber reece. thanks. if you come in huge groups, individual retainers and now sounding the alarm, this type of gain crime is costing the more every year in 2022 for example, retailers last a good 112000000000 us dollars. as a result. what's the solution? we take a look in this edition of maids d, w. 's business magazine will 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. i'm obsessed incidents. a growing problem for national and local retailers, big and 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

the law. 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 up call to everyone. just how 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, worst 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 called 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 a 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 goose and other luxury retailers all hit by completed or at least attempted smashing grams. so 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 in effective critics say, what we really need is aggressive 0 tolerance prosecution. and unfortunately we really don't have aggressive prosecution. and that sends the message then that it's ok very involved as low as large what we need there is kelly and safety and slash they co own a unique street where and sneakers store called fleet the stores in chicago was little italy district, far from the climber and plates of downtown smack my there is a fabian, have been victims of a template some and completed smashing graphs 6 types so far. i think um were so attractive to them because of what, you know, the product that we k. no, 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. it was a game changer for their since avian, because this happened in the early morning hours of october 25th. a cost smashed into the storefront for at least 5 mast perpetrators grab as much merchandise as can in just minutes. then they'll even waiting cars to tell you get a car, maybe 3 or 4 or 5 of them will know what it is already. let me know to the other 2 hours and then once that car, okay, there was that, oh my goodness. and then to get here the care on my home, and i see a jeep who interviewed us over 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 retail

saft, there is insurance for property. um, so if you know you in property, meaning if they broke a window or smash 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 slides and tell you have to eat the cost for the loss of merchandise and their property insurance premiums ro, significantly on top of that, they have to invest even more in security. more cameras and sensors fully on security, got reinforced shop window frames, bullets resistant, 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 to doing everything they can up to certain limits to

protect their business. the illinois attorney general has recently created a task for us to combat semester and grab trying 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 status of the russian war is the question that goes to craig. and often more than most functions from western countries, the russian economy is still doing surprisingly well. culture rates, a whole expectation, 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 is the russian economy performing and how much longer can the country afford to wages, war of aggression against ukraine? rushes, investing billions of bureaus and 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 uh. busy by the fact that when you compare them with. ready lots of defy players come for support. uh to today you all kinds of sports to, to china, and even the new infrastructure of projects. like all else, i give you

a tool of stealing the fund state. what's more, the price of natural gas is following for natural gas, i expect the downward pressure on prices to continue. mainly because of u. n. g supply company online towards the end of this year and the beginning of next year. russian is dependent on this income to pay for its import import 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. vista says start events, i'm 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, it's true that the russian economy is growing, but of course we have to say from what 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 that'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 of the 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 that 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 with 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 extends, 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. the transportation of all i left um

probably are violating the cops. so there is a we, i'm for as many to on the side of it is there is also a shadow trading uh where you know, uh all the is uh, uh, discharged. uh and the charge, the on another bus. ready overseas uh more and more oil is ending up in india. it's most important. the oil supplier is now restaurants. have 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 on to also i'm for example alan g project. i know the lesson for western countries including the e. u is certainly that it's almost impossible to impose water type sanctions on a country of this size box that this is antonio. china is having the last

class. it's being supplied with natural gas and oil at the low, the world market price ended selling more goods to russia with virtually no competition from the west. de risk in o d company that's currently the big question when it comes to telling us so many gym and companies. the country is extremely important in terms of production, location and as a markets. but they also want to remain castle under increasingly looking for new strategies in dealing with the people's republic. that's also the case of a medium sized company dbm, published 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 em pabst received under the door like many other german medium sized companies in manufacturing, e, b and perhaps is also focused on china because they need the country both as a production location strong 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. you'll see naga shift to we don't see them. the company has almost 15000 employees worldwide, which around 2000 are in china. a bmw, perhaps, has been producing there for almost 30 years. i have an appointment with thomas newton, bigger head of asia. he has to join the video conference to talk to his colleagues in shanghai however. and so i have time to check out the show room. the fans manufactured here, i used in many different industries, sometimes for cooling,

large semi conductor factories sometimes installed in small heat pumps for the home . yeah, so that account to all me thing. so it's good to 0. i'm joining the video conference. the aim is to make china a 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. yes, actually. so this means that the china business is becoming more independent of the headquarters in germany. local for local is the new strategy

that reminds us i yeah, we've been doing local for local for several years now. and we're also trying to decouple 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 we expect to have to be me. so to just tell me the basement, basically we want to manufacture in china for china and want to achieve a 95 percent globalization rate there. and then the in the next 2 years, because the overall did the highs and even in times of increasing geopolitical tensions, the goal is for the business to stay intact. well, the strategy work we discussed as with company bus close guys, door for 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. in america, everything should be supplied, produced, and sold locally. i asked him specifically, what would happen if more suddenly broke out between china and tie? one way of getting 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. so we are preparing for this and we are prepared for it and i said i can't yet st wouldn't be was due in this specific case. and if i have such an event occurs, is a bmw, perhaps new strategy, an isolated case, or a general trend. i ask you konami's, expert gilding motus in cologne. if he were seen companies in china, actually focusing more and more strongly on localisation,

this means that many companies seem to be focusing much more on their own china business. this is obviously possible and many companies are moving in this direction. do they still back to most thing in 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 too. since transporting fewer goods means saving more c o 2 emissions. so, i've been sitting on my workspace to be, are increasingly moving away from how we originally thought about globalization, like moving production and buy 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 it's a major economic blog such as china that you in the us are drifting further and further apart its own. and that's why companies are increasing the relying on the

new strategy of having local supply chains. as long as the geo political tensions continue to rise, this trend is like you to continue in full flight. 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 one, pat humanoid robots, that's a global race on the, for the best ones, is they can look faster than we can just styles with the public sites artificial 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 for new style track memory. so why don't you 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 a board which can walk with and run and jump and things like that. i definitely do things 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 his 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 blood pressure and 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 uni tree h one in the future. we amount of property to the probably all just

a robust as a general purpose for different any of the streets 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 workflows because the geometry is very similar to a person. tesla is also working on is humanoid optimised. but when will humanoid robots be able to think and solve problems? will answer this question at the end of the video. example number 200 head robots. they are called quanto pets. 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. the one day to wash your dishes in the 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 a studious what them and they really don't want to do it. spock is also in action at the german mail order company auto key does patrols and checks on the complex systems.

opportunities. ask you and make example number 3 avatars. hello again. so these look more like humans than humanoids. they have skin, facial expressions, and i'm movements sophia from the manufacturer. hansen 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 4, 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 dev, loud overboard. so let's campaigns on the spot and have intelligence. 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 right 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 robots from boston dynamics can already down to the same way humans can but they don't think or feel anything the

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