Author: Rachel Siegel
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Welcome to the first holiday season without Toys R Us
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One week before Thanksgiving, FAO Schwarz’s signature toy soldiers will stand at the ready to ring in the holiday season. Three years after closing its Manhattan flagship store, the iconic toy seller is back in New York City — complete with more than 20,000 square feet of toys, games and dolls. Of course, FAO’s new…
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Sears could finally be nearing bankruptcy after years of decline
Sears, the struggling department store chain and former iconic American retailer, has reportedly hired an advisory firm to prepare a bankruptcy filing. The retailer operates stores in Colorado Springs in the Southgate Shopping Center south of downtown and in Chapel Hills Mall near the Air Force Academy. The filing could come as early as this…
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People are destroying their Nike gear to protest Colin Kaepernick’s ‘Just Do It’ campaign
Some sliced the swooshes right out of their socks. Others lit their shoes aflame, and filmed while they burned in their yards. All had strong feelings about Nike’s new “Just Do It” campaign and one of its newest faces: Colin Kaepernick. Nike revealed on Monday that Colin Kaepernick – the out-of-work NFL quarterback who generated…
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Patagonia is giving its workers Election Day off — and says you should, too
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The outdoor retailer Patagonia will close up shop this Election Day, and it’s urging other companies to do the same. Four years ago, voter participation hit its lowest since World War II, with only 36 percent of the voting-age population making it to the polls.…
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Starbucks: You don’t have to buy coffee to sit in our cafes or use our restrooms
Starbucks is now allowing people to use its restrooms and sit in its cafes and patios even if they do not buy anything. The coffee giant on Saturday announced its new policy, which says that customers, including those who did not make a purchase, can come to its cafes and stay — as long as they behave properly.…
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‘I thought I was done’: George H.W. Bush faced death at 20 during WWII
Just one day after his wife was buried, former president George H.W. Bush contracted an infection that spread to his blood and was hospitalized. On Monday, a family spokesman said Bush is responding to treatments and appears to be recovering. The 93-year-old’s health has been in decline for years, yet on Saturday, Bush sat front…
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A Texas mother shot and killed her two young daughters after plotting for weeks, police say
The first EMS call came in at 11:29 p.m. Wednesday. “I want to get somebody out here to check my wife out,” Jacob Henderson said, his voice calm and even. He didn’t think his wife was trying to commit suicide, he told the dispatcher, but she was “freaking out like somebody is out to get…
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A Wisconsin man got locked in a walk-in beer cooler. He had ‘everything that he needed,’ police say.
Ten minutes to midnight on Tuesday, Jeremy J. Van Ert stepped into a walk-in beer cooler at a Kwik Trip convenience store in Marshfield, Wis. When the doors locked behind him at midnight, he decided that rather than shout for help, he would just camp out, police say. Marshfield Police Chief Rick Gramza said that his department…
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Obama to serve jury duty in Cook County
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Since leaving the White House in January, former president Barack Obama has turned heads, images of him slipping into a Broadway play with his elder daughter, Malia, and kitesurfing with billionaire Richard Branson in the British Virgin Islands were shared on social media sites. His next stop: jury duty in Cook County, Ill. Obama, a…
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A rock thrown from a Michigan overpass killed a father. Now 5 teens are charged with murder.
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Kenneth Andrew White was riding in the passenger seat of a van on Interstate 75 outside Flint, Michigan, last Wednesday when a six-pound rock sliced through the windshield, striking him in the chest and head, police said. The 32-year-old construction worker was pronounced dead at the hospital. “He was a good man and a good…