Tag: Shopping and Retail
Bolt Built $11 Billion Business With Inflated Metrics and Eager Investors
A Fund-Raising GuruStill, Mr. Breslow has become something of a legend in the Valley, for his fund-raising prowess…
Atlanta Apple Store Workers Are the First to Formally Seek a Union
Employees at an Apple store in Atlanta filed a petition on Wednesday to hold a union election. If…
The Supreme of Baby Clothes
People who work at Kate Quinn, a fashion brand that specializes in clothes for children and babies, say…
How a Dollar General Employee Went Viral on TikTok
In January 2021, Mary Gundel received a letter from Dollar General’s corporate office congratulating her for being one…
The Fiddle Leaf Fig Is Dead. What’s the New Popular Plant?
“The ‘It’ plant is the quest,” said Katie Dubow, the president of Garden Media Group, a public relations…
Gopuff Buys Time for Its 30-Minutes-or-Less Delivery Promise
“Once you can execute, and obviously that’s hard, it wins in the long term,” he said.Gopuff added that…
What’s the Future of Online Grocery Shopping?
The conventional wisdom has been that the pandemic will spark a widespread and permanent shift in American habits…
There’s No Global Shopping Mall
Many apps that Americans use are also popular across the world, at least outside China. Facebook, WhatsApp, Google…
Oakland Cannabis Sellers, Once Full of Hope, Face a Harsh Reality
OAKLAND, Calif. — Across from where the Athletics play baseball sits a two-story concrete building painted bright orange…
Amazon Opens a Whole Foods With the Next Step in Automation
“Would you like to sign in with your palm?”That was the question a cheerful Amazon employee posed when…
The Best-Kept Vintage Secret in Paris
PARIS — Not long after Rihanna wore a vintage pink Chanel puffer for her pregnancy announcement, another example…
Absent or Swinging Prices Keep Consumers Guessing
When a holiday toy catalog from Amazon arrived in the mail in late October, Krista Hoffmann noticed something…