The Best 8 Sales This Weekend: Pre-Summer Fashion, Oprah-Approved Joggers, and Mother’s Day Gifts from $4 We rounded up the eight best sales happening this weekend, including major markdowns on Banana Republic Factory fashion finds, Oprah-approved Cozy Earth joggers, Spanx The Perfect Pant, and more ... 04/26/2024 - 12:30 am | View Link
US pending home sales jumped in March, beating expectations by a mile Despite the March gain, pending home sales are still “in a fairly narrow range over the last 12 months without a measurable breakout,” NAR’s chief economist, Lawrence Yun, said in a release. 04/25/2024 - 1:02 am | View Link
UK Retail Sales Slide in April, Early Easter May Be Partly to Blame: CBI "April’s sharp fall in retail sales was likely related to the earlier timing of Easter this year, so we should take it with a pinch of salt," Alpesh Paleja, CBI lead economist, said. 04/24/2024 - 11:08 pm | View Link
Canada Retail Sales Miss Expectations With Second Monthly Fall Retail sales decreased 0.1% in February after a 0.3% contraction in January, Statistics Canada said, adding a preliminary estimate showed that sales were likely to remain unchanged in March. Two ... 04/24/2024 - 2:16 am | View Link
Retail sales surge as Americans buy despite higher prices Americans boosted spending at a hotter-than-expected pace in March, underscoring how shoppers remain resilient despite inflationary pressures and other economic challenges. 04/15/2024 - 5:35 am | View Link
In high-rises around the world, gashes and slashes are the hot new architectural trend.
Featuring dramatic cuts in the facade or portions of floor plates sliced away—a new kind of architectural detail is reshaping the exterior of high-rise towers on a global scale. Distinctive gashes are splitting the surface of new buildings with a kind of surgical intent.
Interest in Apple’s spatial computer has apparently fallen off a cliff too. Here’s why, and why Apple’s loss isn’t Meta’s gain
Earlier this month I started looking into whether anyone was buying the Apple Vision Pro after I noticed that social media discourse about Apple’s spatial computer seemed to have all but disappeared within weeks of its launch.
The three most common forms of toxic leadership create self-defeating cultures that stifle innovation, undermine trust, and destroy engagement.
Leadership is key to any successful organization. Leadership is not only responsible for the most critical organizational decisions, but also shaping the culture of the organization. As Peter Drucker famously noted, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Drucker’s observation is difficult to dispute.
The 100% affordable apartment building is the first in the city to be permitted under a state law designed to streamline new construction.
Until recently, a strip of land near a transit station in San Francisco was an underused parking lot. Now it’s home to more than 100 affordable apartments.
Lead battery recycling is a crucial but dirty business. As a plant outside Los Angeles seeks to renew its operating permit, the community pushes back.
This story was originally published by Grist and Public Health Watch.
Seymourpowell’s Caroline Jacob on the power of biotech and how it can transform materials.
Biofabrication has been selling the promise of a harmless, resilient, and versatile alternative to traditional materials for nearly a decade, and yet the industry has never truly scaled. Efforts are often stymied by complex, labor-intensive, and expensive processes.