Bed Bath & Beyond is winning with shoppers stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic. Bed Bath & Beyond Bed Bath & Beyond Chief Brand Officer Cindy Davis spoke with Business Insider about the company’s stellar summer sales, as well as its plans for winning during the holiday season. Davis […]
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“My workstation is in the bedroom. I get up from bed — and if I’m being honest, sometimes don’t even bother showering — and then literally move to the chair, and I sit there for most of the day,” said Ryan Taylor, a New York-based software engineer, who now has […]
43% of women said they would be less likely to share breast health concerns (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk) New research shows that one in five women have deprioritised their breast health and nearly half are less likely to share their breast health concerns as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. According to […]
During the year to Q2 2020: Surprisingly, global housing markets remained extraordinarily vibrant during the year to Q2 2020, especially in Europe, Canada and the US. Real house prices (i.e., prices adjusted for inflation) rose in 33 out of the 49 world’s housing markets which have so far published housing […]
Whoever coined the phrase “you can’t go home again” clearly never lived through a 21st-century pandemic. © Poupay Jutharat for Money Kids-moving-home-covid-Lynn-Pollack As unemployment ranks grow and colleges continue to push distance learning, young adults are squeezing back into their childhood bedrooms in unprecedented numbers. Families accustomed to living apart […]
One of the region’s top tourism events has a new chapter this month. Wigtown Book Festival is to go online across 10 days from September 24 to October 4 and will feature more than 80 guest authors including Anne Applebaum, Alastair Campbell, Andrew Marr and Maggie O’Farrell. A limited edition […]
The closing of theatres forced me to go outside of my comfort zone and learn more about myself. High school theatre.Working as Delores Dante I truly can’t remember going a single day of my life without singing. Performing has always just been a part of my life. For me, escaping […]
For some time now, social media users have been marking the beginning of each month by heaving collective sighs. “What? It’s September already?!”, many people exclaimed at the beginning of this month, trying to come to terms with the fact that we only have four months left in the year, […]
This story was updated at 3:14 p.m. EDT. The Interior Department flagged for the White House dozens of high-profile fossil fuel projects it could push through environmental review during the pandemic, according to newly released documents. The list, obtained by the Center for Biological Diversity in response to a Freedom […]
NEW YORK (AP) — At the peak of the coronavirus pandemic this spring, Sharawn Vinson often woke up crying. A recurring thought was making the unemployed single mother desperate: That her kids could go hungry. There was also fear of contracting the virus, which has disproportionately hit low-income Black families […]
NEW YORK — At the peak of the coronavirus pandemic this spring, Sharawn Vinson often woke up crying. A recurring thought was making the unemployed single mother desperate: That her kids could go hungry. There was also fear of contracting the virus, which has disproportionately hit low-income Black families like […]
NEW YORK (AP) — At the peak of the coronavirus pandemic this spring, Sharawn Vinson often woke up crying. A recurring thought was making the unemployed single mother desperate: That her kids could go hungry. There was also fear of contracting the virus, which has disproportionately hit low-income Black families […]
New York City apartment sales plunged in July, according to a report from the real-estate firm Douglas Elliman. But in neighboring suburbs, home sales are surging as wealthy New Yorkers seek greener pastures. For Connecticut — which has struggled to rebound even from the last recession — the migration could […]
NHMLA launches the online exhibition of ‘Rise Up LA: A Century of Votes for Women,’ with images, text and ephemera on women’s history. (Courtesy of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.) Coronavirus is wreaking havoc on schools, stores, businesses and events. With in-person concerts, talks, comedy shows, food […]
Cricket’s next challenge? Learning how to light a match. Photo by Michelle Johnson. This isn’t some Meet the Parents gag. You can actually train your cat to do their business in a human toilet. All you need is a cat, a training device, and a global pandemic. By Michelle Johnson • August […]
Four years ago, when interior designer Ellie Cullman created a house for her three adult children and their families on the grounds of her considerable country estate in Connecticut’s Fairfield County, she never imagined how they’d take advantage of it these past few months. With the help of architect John […]
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