Yas Mall has launched a new ‘We Shop For You’ virtual shopping experience service for residents in the UAE capital, now offering a cashless and convenient way of shopping through the Akyasi service complete with free-of-charge home delivery. This virtual shopping experience is available for all essential items from Carrefour and pharmacies, and will widen to include the entire Yas Mall retail offer as malls reopen. To avail of the ‘We Shop For You’ service, customers need to snap a picture of what they want, share the photo via WhatsApp. Then Akyasi arranges the purchase and delivery of the orders. To ensure the health and safety of customers all goods delivered via the ‘We Shop For You’ service are thoroughly sanitised and delivery drivers wear appropriate protective clothing, masks and gloves.

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, ADIB, has announced the donation of AED1 million to provide 125,000 meals as part of the '10 Million Meals', the nation’s biggest food distribution drive, to support low-income families and individuals in need. The humanitarian campaign, the UAE’s biggest food distribution drive, enables individuals and institutions to donate towards providing meals and food parcels to low-income individuals and families throughout the Holy Month of Ramadan. In the first few days of its launch, the campaign continues to attract numerous donations from different segments of the society.

Over the past few decades, the middle east has become one of the most popular, thriving destinations for labor migrants with different backgrounds. The United Arab Emirates is leading the way not only in the region but also across the world, as its iconic, enchanting cities offer a diverse range of employment opportunities to individuals from around the world. 

The main difference between professional and retail traders has to do with how risk is being managed constantly, according to a rules-based system. One of the main reasons why a lot of traders end up losing money is their inability to understand the nature of trading and why it’s different as compared to having a full-time job or a small business.

The Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED) has issued 30 violations and 375 warnings to various commercial facilities for failing to comply with the decisions and circulars recently issued by the department covering the price monitoring of fruits, vegetables and consumer goods. The issued violations and warnings are the result of the 31,223 inspection visits conducted by the ADDED to commercial establishments in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, including commercial centers, restaurants, mobile food outlets, coffee shops, sales outlets, vegetables, fruits and fish stores, and beauty salons. A total of 815 counterfeit products were also confiscated by the department during the inspections. These results were revealed by the ADDED's commercial activity report for the period from March 30 through April 15.