Convenience store

The Internet giant "Amazon" has opened an ultramodern shop without staff. By using their smartphone, customers enter a minimarket in Seattle.

A system of thousands of cameras and sensors monitors everything taken from the shelves and charges the amount for the merchandise on an internet bill. If the customer reconsiders and returns the goods, the amount is deducted from the bill.

Two Albanian nationals were detained on Wednesday after police found 11 kilograms of cannabis in their possession following their arrest at a convenience store in the Athens neighborhood of Ilisia.

Neighborhood minimarkets and discount chains were last year's net gainers in food retailing (excluding open-air street markets). These two categories saw their turnover grow in 2015 compared to 2014, according to a report issued by research firm IRI.

A proposed amendment by 16 SYRIZA deputies calling for a prohibition of the sale of cigarettes and smoking-related products at corner stores was withdrawn on Tuesday, following strong reaction from trade associations.

A new video has been released through social networks that has taped an armed robbery of a small convenience store in Sofia.

By Dimitra Manifava

From the start of the recession in 2008 up to 2014 more than 200,000 small and medium-sized enterprises are estimated to have shut down, which means that a quarter of this sector has been wiped out, according to commerce register figures.

A 45-year-old man was hospitalized on Thursday after falling from the second floor of an apartment block in the central Athens district of Exarchia in an apparent suicide attempt.

The man, who owns a convenience store in the area, fell on an inflatable mattress put out by the fire service which was alerted by worried neighbors.