To me, receiving or giving flowers as a gift can come off a little lazy. Though they look pretty and may be worth an Instastory to show off how much you’re being cared for, they serve no practical use and eventually die anyway. It just seems like a waste of …
Read More »Zara’s Parent Company To Close Up To 1,200 Stores Globally By 2021
Spanish multinational clothing company Inditex — which is also the parent company of Zara and other fashion brands such as Massimo Dutti, Pull & Bear and Bershka — announced today that it will close up to 1,200 smaller stores by 2021. This is following the firm’s first loss after the …
Read More »Apple will begin reopening U.S. stores May 11
(Reuters) — Apple said Friday it will reopen a handful of stores in four U.S. states starting next week, in the first resumption of physical retail operations since the iPhone maker shuttered all U.S. stores in mid-March. The company said it will open “some” stores in Alabama, Alaska, Idaho and South …
Read More »Robinsons To Close Jem Outlet In August 2020 – Says Multiple Stores “No Longer Sustainable”
Robinsons will be closing its Jem department store at the end of August 2020. They had been holding discussions with the mall’s landlord Lendlease since November 2019, and came to an “amicable” decision to exit. According to The Straits Times, Robinsons said that drastic changes in the retail scene have …
Read More »Manufacturers Are Making More of These 10 Products to Restock Stores
Alex Bascuas / Shutterstock.com People have been stocking up over the past few weeks, so shoppers face many empty store shelves. While the demand for staples, pantry goods and cleaning products has increased, supply has lagged. If you can’t find everything on your list at your local store, that could …
Read More »Apple closes nearly all retail stores until March 27 over coronavirus
(Reuters) — Apple said late on Friday it will close all its retail stores, except those in Greater China, for the next two weeks to minimize the risk of coronavirus transmission. “We will be closing all of our retail stores outside of Greater China until March 27,” Apple CEO Tim …
Read More »8 Things I Always Buy at Thrift Stores
ESB Professional / Shutterstock.com You know those bumper stickers that read, “I brake for yard sales”? Well, mine says, “I brake for thrift stores.” And I do. Over the past three decades, I’ve thrift-shopped my way across the Midwest, Northeast and from L.A. to Seattle. Thankfully, I’m too picky to …
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