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There's an easy way cities can lure in more holiday shoppers: Get rid of street parking

Tue, 10/31/2023 - 06:02

Tech Insider : Economy

Shoppers at Bryant Park's Winter Village shopping area in Manhattan, New York. — Shoppers at Bryant Park's Winter Village shopping area in Manhattan, New York.
Lindsey Nicholson/Getty Images

economy, Retail, holiday-shopping, Parking, Cities, Downtown

The warped financial logic fueling America’s ‘doom loop’

Tue, 10/31/2023 - 05:55

Tech Insider

A boarded up store front with red boards representing a downward arrow — Landlords could help reverse the Retail Apocalypse by lowering rents and extending leases — but their lenders won’t let them.
Tyler Le/Insider

Real Estate, Discourse, finance, Cities, Retail, retail-real-estate, Shopping

Walmart Spark delivery drivers are sick of customers asking them to bring deliveries into their homes

Tue, 10/31/2023 - 05:48

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Walmart delivery. — Walmart Spark drivers often get asked to bring groceries inside customers' homes.
Walmart

Retail, walmart, spark, gig-work, Delivery, eCommerce, Shopping

McDonald's isn't as cheap as it once was, and it's losing low-income customers

Tue, 10/31/2023 - 05:15

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Two men sit at a table in a McDonald's restaurant eating food. — McDonald's said Monday that customers continue to count on the chain for affordable meals, even as it raises menu prices.
Getty/Cassidy Sparrow

Retail, McDonalds, fast-food

The iPod is officially 'vintage retro tech' now, and restored models sold out at Gen Z-favorite Urban Outfitters

Tue, 10/31/2023 - 04:58

Tech Insider

Customers standing in front of iPod advertisement — Apple introduced the fifth generation iPod Classic in 2007 for $249.
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Tech Insider, Retail, apple, ipod, ipod-classic, ipod-touch, urban-outfitters

Meet Emma and Jens Grede, the team behind Kim Kardashian's Skims and Kylie Jenner's new clothing line, Khy

Mon, 10/30/2023 - 15:13

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Kim Kardashian, Jens Grede, and Emma Grede pose with awards — Kim Kardashian, Jens Grede, and Emma Grede pose with the Amazon Innovation Award during the 2022 CFDA Fashion Awards.
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images

Retail, SKIMS, good-american, emma-grede, kardashians, kardashian-jenner, tom-brady

Panera Bread warns people 'sensitive to caffeine' not to drink its Charged Lemonade following wrongful-death lawsuit

Mon, 10/30/2023 - 15:10

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Panera Bread Charged Lemonade with caffeine label — Panera's Charged Lemonade got an updated description with lots of warnings.
Panera Bread

Retail, panera, panera-bread, Lemonade, lawsuit, wrongful-death, FDA

I visited Birkenstock's fashion-forward SoHo store and was impressed by the range of styles, including sneakers, heels, and boots

Mon, 10/30/2023 - 15:04

Tech Insider

I visited the Birkenstock store in the Soho neighborhood of New York City.

Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins/Insider

Retail, Birkenstock, store-tour, store-tours

Walmart managers are going to extreme lengths to get customers to complete the retailer's checkout survey. It's confusing shoppers and workers.

Mon, 10/30/2023 - 05:34

Tech Insider

A screen at a Walmart self-checkout kiosk displays a survey asking the user — The checkout survey at Walmart.
Dominick Reuter/Insider

Retail, walmart, Shopping, Stores, Workers, Retail, Self-Checkout

Panera Bread founder says he thought it would be easier to be 'hit by a truck' during the chain's stressful 2015 overhaul

Sun, 10/29/2023 - 15:27

Tech Insider

Ron Shaich serving — Panera founder Ron Shaich.
Panera/David Elmes

Retail, Careers, panera, CEOs, founders, food-brands, cava

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