Imagine walking into your favorite home goods store, only to find that it has closed up shop due to bankruptcy. That's not a headline, a wake-up call for At Home, the defunct chain of 260 stores across 40 states, flying high until an apocalyptic storm of raging tariffs and strapped consumer wallets brought it down. What everyone misses: This is not simply bad luck for one firm. It's a canary ...
List of Walgreens Stores Closing This Month – What It Means for Beauty Shoppers
Walgreens, which owns over 8,600 U.S. locations, is shuttering more than 50 in August alone as part of a master plan to close 1,200 stores in three years. Higher costs fuel this contraction. Decreasing prescription reimbursements and heightened competition from e-commerce and big-box retailers, including Amazon and Walmart. For beauty consumers, the closure of Beauty Brands and other similar ...
Costco Refuses to Raise Prices on Key Items Despite Ongoing Tariffs
When tariffs push prices up across the retail sector, Costco's refusal to raise prices on staple products is a dangerous outlier. While other retailers are taking consumers by forcing them into sticker shock, Costco reestablishes its low-price promise by not only promising lower prices for consumers but also absorbing costs that others pass off onto consumers. That defiance is not ...
Albertsons and Kroger Workers Approve Massive Strike Forcing Major Closures
With 45,000 members working across southern California, Albertsons and Kroger's supermarket workers have voted overwhelmingly as a union to strike over what they believe to be unfair labor practices. It's not only about money; workers are striking over chronic understaffing, unsafe working conditions, and illegal practices such as surveillance and intimidation. After months of making no headway ...
Infamous MAGA Fashion Critic Faces Deportation Call
Derek Guy, or Menswear Guy, is a fashion critic who became notorious for scathing critiques of politicians' and celebrities' styles, though directed particularly at conservatives like Vice President JD Vance. Guy has just gone public with the revelation that he immigrated to the United States illegally as a child Vietnamese refugee, and this revelation dropped during America's hot immigration ...
California Faces Massive Job Loss as 3 Factories Close Within Days
California’s status as an economic powerhouse faces a significant threat as three large factories shut down quickly, sending shockwaves through both boardrooms and local streets. Plant closures have been a fact of life, but the speed and scale of the losses, hundreds of jobs lost overnight, signal an underlying, systemic threat. These closures represent a change that even long-standing ...
7 Costco Products Customers Say They’ll Never Buy Again
Thinking of Costco as a bargain paradise can blind shoppers to a grim reality: not every item is a good value. There are devoted devotees of Costco, but there will always be some Costco products that create buyer's remorse, fanning the flames of conversations on online forums. To be fair, some of Costco's biggest regulars or biggest missed promotional opportunities do indeed fail, and more ...
Kroger Faces Massive Worker Walkout, Stores Forced to Shut Down Nationwide
Mega-retailer Kroger, with more than 11 million daily shoppers under its roof, now faces a colossal employee walkout that's closed national chains -no, another labor dispute. An earthquake has struck, revealing rifts deep within some of America's essential workforce. Kroger enjoyed record profits while workers wanted improved wages, benefits, and dignity. Complaints that have snowballed into ...
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