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All the beauty products 'TikTok Olympian' Ilona Maher is packing in her bag for Paris

Thu, 07/11/2024 - 09:19

Tech Insider : Sports

Olympic rugby player Ilona Maher poses with a rugby ball for her Team USA Paris 2024 Olympic portrait shoot. — Ilona Maher's Olympics essentials include lipstick and sunscreen.
Harry How/Staff/Getty Images

Sports, Retail, 2024-olympics, tiktok, beauty-brands, essentials, olympic-athletes

Costco is raising its membership fee for the first time in 7 years

Wed, 07/10/2024 - 18:22

Tech Insider

Hand holding Costco membership card in front of Costco store — Costco is raising its membership fee, the retailer said Wednesday.
Andy.LIU/Shutterstock

Retail, Costco, Shopping, Retail

Costco's hourly workers are getting a raise — read the CEO's memo

Wed, 07/10/2024 - 09:38

Tech Insider

A Costco warehouse in Wisconsin. — Costco's starting hourly wage for many positions is now $19.50.
Dominick Reuter/Business Insider

Retail, Careers, Costco, Wages, retail-workers

Texans used cult fast food chain Whataburger's app to track power outages during Hurricane Beryl

Wed, 07/10/2024 - 07:51

Tech Insider

A Whataburger restaurant — Some Houston residents used Whataburger's app to track power outages.
Eric Gay/AP

News, Retail, hurricane-beryl, whataburger, Retail, fast-food, storm

Prices keep changing from day to day, and it's driving Americans nuts

Wed, 07/10/2024 - 05:54

Tech Insider : Economy

Retail sign amidst a pile of clothes, displaying 'Special Prices' with a slot machine effect showing changing prices — Inflation and dynamic pricing are making it so that Americans don't know what anything costs anymore — and it's driving a growing sense of fatigue.
Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI

economy, Discourse, Retail, Prices, Inflation, dynamic-pricing, surge-pricing

Why Amazon wants you to pick up your Prime Day orders this year

Wed, 07/10/2024 - 05:13

Tech Insider

An Amazon pick-up locker, which is colored orange and says — Amazon has been adding lockers for order pick-ups.
LUCY NICHOLSON/Reuters

Retail, amazon, Delivery, Pickup, Shopping, prime-day

Nike's trying to pivot. It's not working just yet.

Tue, 07/09/2024 - 11:25

Tech Insider

A nike store exterior in Spain — A Nike store in Spain.
Xavi Lopez/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Retail, Nike, Retail, Shoes, Sneakers, Sportswear

I work in sales at Coach. Customers always make these 5 mistakes when buying luxury bags.

Tue, 07/09/2024 - 09:14

Tech Insider

Woman holding yellow banana coach purse — I have helped a lot of people buy Coach bags over the years.
Edward Berthelot/Getty Images

Retail, freelancer-le, Luxury, purse, bags, purses, evergreen-story

The scary new ways you're about to get overcharged for everything

Tue, 07/09/2024 - 05:52

Tech Insider : Economy

A digital mouse/hook pulling a price tag out of someone's pocket — Personalized pricing not only bakes in bias and can drive inflation but creates a world where you never know when your apps are ripping you off.
Tyler Le/BI

economy, Discourse, Retail, Discourse, discourse-freelance, artificial-intellegence, Pricing

The Chinese economy is so bad, even Chinese people can't be enticed into buying dirt-cheap mega-sale items

Tue, 07/09/2024 - 05:05

Tech Insider

A citizen buys goods online in Zhoushan city. — A citizen buys goods online in Zhoushan city.
CFOTO/Getty Images

Retail, China, Alibaba, china-economy

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