Your Lyft ride got cheaper because the company laid off so many employees

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Lyft fares have decreased since the company laid off just over 1,000 people this spring.

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Rolex makes 123 watch models — most of them are worth more used

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Rolex GMT-Master II
Rolex's new left-handed GMT-Master now trades for nearly double its $11,250 retail price.

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Barbie owes her existence to a 1950s German comic strip

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Composite pictures of Barbie doll (left), Bild Lilli doll (right)
"The 'Lilli' doll was the embodiment of an idea I'd pitched to Elliot and our other Mattel toy designers some five years earlier," Handler wrote in her autobiography.

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Conservatives are protesting Greta Gerwig's feminist blockbuster 'Barbie' by setting dolls on fire and calling for boycotts

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Kingsley Ben-Adir, Ryan Gosling and Ncuti Gatwa as Kens in Barbie
Kingsley Ben-Adir, Ryan Gosling and Ncuti Gatwa as Kens in "Barbie."

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Barbie's creator wanted Ken to have more of a 'bulge' — but Mattel refused to give the doll a prominent crotch

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Ken dolls over the years.
Ken dolls over the years.

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Barbie and Ken, this summer's hottest couple, were actually named after a brother and sister

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Ryan Gosling as Ken and Margot Robbie as Barbie in "Barbie."

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Lowe's rehired an employee who it fired after she tried to stop a group of shoplifters, getting punched in the face 3 times in the process

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Every city in America looks exactly the same now

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A couple from the big city looks at a selection of small cities with notifications on them, vying for attention while all looking the same.
Remote work caused a flood of new arrivals to small and midsize cities. And now those cities all look the same.

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How every American city became exactly the same

Trader Joe's has recalled 2 types of cookies after finding out they might have rocks in them

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Trader Joe's

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Some say 'deshopping' or returning already-worn clothes should be illegal. Others argue it's an invaluable marketing tool — so who's right?

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A woman placing clothes in a box.
Despite environmental impacts, retailers could see deshopping and bracketing as minor issues — if these retailers manage returns well.

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