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9 Months. 100 People. Inside the Making of a Holiday Window

It was go time.Just after 7 p.m. on Tuesday night, security teams raced across Fifth Avenue with police barricades, closing off one of New...

Christmas Trees Trimmed in Irony

American consumers’ spending on winter holidays including Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa has grown, rising from some $567.6 billion in 2012 to around $889.3 billion...

Black Friday Shoppers Worry About Economy as Retailers Push Sales

On its website, the mall owner CBL highlighted the discounts that stores like H&M and the children’s apparel retailer Carter’s were offering. Other retailers...

What Makes a Room Unforgettable?

A few months after Mr. Balazs hired the firm to do the 338-room Standard hotel, Alex Calderwood, a co-founder of the Ace Hotel chain,...

As Inventory Piles Up, Liquidation Warehouses Are Busy

PITTSTON, Pa. — Once upon a time, when parents were scrambling to occupy their children during pandemic lockdowns, bicycles were hard to find. But...

How Wish Built (and Fumbled) a Dollar Store for the Internet

Consumers have complained to the Better Business Bureau about Wish products that never arrived or were unrecognizable when they did. France, which was one...

Retail Workers Increasingly Fear for Their Safety

Assaults at stores have been increasing at a faster pace than the national average. Some workers are tired of fearing for their safety.June 28,...

‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Becomes a New Way to Pay for Guns

A few years ago, as American consumers were being wooed with “buy now, pay later” loans that let them pay for online purchases —...

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 and his outspoken behavior. Last summer,...

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 of the company’s top-performing employees. In...

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 it was putting a public offering...

The Best-Kept Vintage Secret in Paris

PARIS — Not long after Rihanna wore a vintage pink Chanel puffer for her pregnancy announcement, another example of the very same coat appeared...

When the Heart Belongs to Carhartt

For more than 14 months, Gary Ely has quietly shown up for a job he no longer has at Caplan’s Army Store in St....

Alphabet’s Profit Increased 36 Percent to $20.64 Billion in Q4

These days, there is so much uncertainty surrounding Google’s parent company, Alphabet: a global pandemic, fears of inflation gripping the U.S. economy, restive employees...

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