The next time you’re at your local grocery store or a nearby location of a department store giant, take a close look at the shelves. If you’ve paid attention at all to news headlines over the past week or so, you’ll no doubt have come across coverage of supply chain issues that are manifesting themselves …
According to the Washington DC Attorney General Karl Racine’s office, Marriott International Inc. and its affiliated Marriott hotels have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in resort fees that guests have been forced to pay over the last decade. Marriott has strenuously denied that it misleads customers in levying these fees, which are also …
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines has been in the news for weeks now for all the wrong reasons. There were more than 2,000 flight cancellations over a single weekend earlier this month, for example. The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association has also gone to court to challenge the Southwest Airlines vaccine mandate. Add in rolling waves of flight …
Flight cancellations were a routine part of travel long before the pandemic. But even in the new environment brought about by COVID-19, the nearly 2,000 Southwest Airlines cancellations this weekend represented an extreme mishap and bad look for an airline that’s long prided itself on friendliness and customer service. Indeed, this airline is supposed to …
Korean internet provider SK Broadband wants Netflix to pay for costs associated with increased network traffic, as more people in the region are streaming popular Netflix titles. Among the shows that went viral in the country recently is a South Korean TV series that shot at the top of Netflix’s charts globally. That’s Squid Game, …
If it seems like the price for just about everything is soaring right now, from the cost of cars to food and especially insanely priced houses. Now, the budget-conscious retail chain Dollar Tree is raising prices. As a result, it just gave everyone another reason to worry about the future. That’s right: The store that …
Jony Ive, the celebrity industrial and product designer thanks to his work at Apple and especially under Steve Jobs, is embarking on a new creative partnership via a newly announced collaboration between his design firm LoveFrom and the Italian luxury carmaker Ferrari. The new partnership announced on Monday pairs Ive and his longtime friend Marc …
Apparently, crop tops can get you booted from certain commercial flights in the US, if the actions of this Alaska Airlines flight attendant are any indication. Fairbanks, Alaska, resident, and musician Ray Lin Howard — otherwise known by her persona “Fat Trophy Wife” — posted a TikTok video three days ago that’s now garnered more …
First things first, let’s answer the question on the minds of many Starbucks uber-fans like myself. You don’t have to wonder whether the coffee chain’s doors will be shuttered on September 6 this year — because, yes, most Starbucks locations are indeed open on Labor Day. So, no need to worry about whether you will …
My email this morning is chock full of news about sales and special offers from retailers like Best Buy and Williams Sonoma — one indication among many that a key US retail date has arrived. Labor Day is an opportunity for many workers to enjoy time off from their employers. But many of them will …
