Pier 1 said earlier this month that it plans to close 450 stores, or about half of its total store count. The company has not released a list of the 450 stores it plans to close. But Pier 1's Facebook account recently said that it has deleted location information for closing stores from its website. […]
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We compared Ross and the struggling Pier 1 Imports and saw why the messier store is actually better to shop for home goods
Pier 1 Imports, a major home goods retailer, is struggling and closing up to 450 of its 942 stores. Ross Stores sells home goods in addition to clothes, shoes, and accessories. We visited a Ross store in Davie, Florida and a Pier 1 Imports in New York City to see how they compared for home-goods […]
Private label products help Coles boost profits in first half
A focus on private label and convenience has paid off for supermarket giant Coles', with the retailer posting a solid first-half result for the 2020 financial year. The company's earnings before interest and tax came in at $725 million for the half, up 0.4 per cent on the prior corresponding half and at the upper […]
Concerns over safety at Amazon warehouses as number of incidents rise
More than 600 Amazon workers have been seriously injured or narrowly escaped an accident in the past three years, prompting calls for a parliamentary inquiry into safety at the online retailer’s vast UK warehouses. Amazon, whose largest shareholder is the world’s richest man Jeff Bezos, recently launched an advertising campaign fronted by contented staff members, […]
Did ‘Fixer Upper’ duo Chip and Joanna Gaines save Waco — or destroy it?
In early 2018, Buck and Jane Morrow were driving home from visiting family in Texas when they spotted Baylor University from the highway. The sight of the school alerted them that they were in Waco, TX, home to HGTV stars Chip and Joanna Gaines, of the megahit home design series “Fixer Upper.” And so they made a […]
Bloomberg dropped $9M on Facebook ads in one week
Bloomberg spending millions on 2020 campaign ads America First Action PAC spokesperson Steve Cortes talks about how Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg reportedly spending $300 million on TV, radio and digital advertisements and if it will help his campaign. Michael Bloomberg pumped more than $9 million of his own fortune into Facebook ads for his […]
Who is Pete Buttigieg's husband? 5 things you need to know
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House Speaker Pelosi Warns Allies Not To Use Chinese Phone Company With Spying Abilities
BRUSSELS (AP) — No NATO ally should succumb to the temptation of letting Chinese tech giant Huawei into their next-generation cellular networks, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday at Allied headquarters, turning U.S. opposition to Huawei into a bipartisan effort. Pelosi said the invasion of privacy that would result from having Huawei integrated into […]
Melania Trump Spends Valentine's Day at Children’s Hospital Visit Then Heads to Mar-a-Lago
For the third year in a row, First Lady Melania Trump spent part of her Valentine’s Day with some young patients at the Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. “[It] has become a treasured tradition of mine,” she wrote on Twitter after the Friday morning visit. “It was a wonderful day […]
Tax credits lure film production companies to NYC
New York (CNN Business)On a soundstage near the Brooklyn waterfront, dozens of production staff are gathered around four actors as they perform a scene about the hunt for a missing ring. Camera people, sound and lighting techs, and a director hustle around the action. They are here to film a new episode of the CBS […]