Shares of hyperpersonalized e-retail platform operator Stitch Fix (NASDAQ:SFIX) sunk in early March as a broader tech sector meltdown coupled with a disappointing second-quarter earnings report to take the wind out of red-hot SFIX stock. Source: Sharaf Maksumov / Shutterstock.com Last year, Stitch Fix stock soared 130{2f36692215c92488191f15c49f485bc8da437d4cca01014075d40c79880301cc}. This year, shares […]
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My aunt was one of my very first style icons. To be fair, most of the women in my life have always cared about style in one form or another (like my grandma, for example, who is 95 and still puts on a full outfit and face of makeup every […]
It’s been a year since shopping for groceries transformed from a mundane task to a complicated one. As COVID-19 vaccine distribution efforts ramp up at many of the supermarkets in your own neck of the woods, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released new guidelines for how to […]
I don’t know what possessed me to buy an Amazon Dash Smart Shelf, but it happened near the end of 2020, and 2020 was a very strange year. On November 25, I ordered the $20 “auto-replenishment scale”—size large—and by December 1 it had arrived. In a customer support email, Amazon […]
To hear him tell it, Jeff Bezos loves stories. Not necessarily the ones contained in books — those items that propelled Amazon’s rise from its beginnings in a Seattle garage in 1994 to the global behemoth it is today. Bezos started out by selling books not out of any literary […]
COVID-19 is just the latest blow for many shopping malls struggling to draw customers to their stores when they can more easily shop online. The pandemic stunted already fading foot traffic and sped up the exodus of mall anchors including Macy’s, J.C. Penney and Dillard’s, leaving cavernous empty spaces in their wake. […]
Back in 2008, Murray Siple released a documentary with the National Film Board of Canada called Carts of Darkness. It follows a group of homeless men in Vancouver, British Columbia that found dual uses for shopping carts: a vessel for picking up glass bottles that can be recycled for the […]
The recent purchase of Westgate Shopping Center on West Moulton Street by a Huntsville businessman has provided hope that the deteriorating property on a major Decatur corridor will begin an overdue recovery. Councilman Billy Jackson remembers when Westgate was a bustling hub of retail activity. It was the mid-1970s. The […]
UPDATE: A jewelry store salesman who forced the lockdown of a Bergen County shopping center by firing a blank gun created danger for a large number of law enforcement responders through his “pointless act,” the local police chief said Monday. Police responding to the report of shots fired Saturday night […]
“Scores of people like Spreetail are behind the scenes, trying to put the right products and information in front of the people,” Thome said. Hy-Vee expects demand for grocery pickup will extend past pandemic Again, customers consider a wide array of information, including photos, delivery speed, price and product ratings. […]
“We’ve got to get away from that chain of thought,” Fauci said on ABC. “The only way you really know the difference between vaccines is by comparing them head to head.” Availability of the J&J shot is expected to accelerate the number of people fully protected from Covid-19 once the […]
New York designer Todd Snyder just made shopping for jeans a whole lot easier. His eponymous brand now offers updated and upgraded denim available in three categories: Stretch, Selvedge and Small Batch. The categories are designed for the varied interests and needs of discerning denim shoppers. Some people want comfortable, […]
