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Fan buys Tom Brady’s “last” touchdown football for $518,628 — then Brady unretires – CBS News
An unknown fan paid more than half a million dollars for the last football Tom Brady threw in an NFL game before retiring last season.But the ball has now lost much of its value after the 44-year-old athlete announced Sunday that he is returning to professional football , experts said. […]
California city may declare Chick-fil-A a “public nuisance” – CBS News
Chick-fil-A is causing some squawking in Santa Barbara, California, where the fast-food chain is finding itself to be a victim of its own success.Namely, the city is close to dubbing it a “public nuisance” due to long drive-thru lines that often has cars filled with hungry customers backed into the […]
Macy’s overhauls its website and trains personal stylists
Macy’s is preparing to overhaul its website and train some of its workforce to be personal stylists in a bid to win more customers searching for the latest fashion trends, the department store chain announced Tuesday.The retailer’s goal is to offer a more customized shopping experience, with one-on-one attention from […]
Assessing the Current Risks to the U.S. Economy
Tweet Post Share Save Get PDF Buy Copies Print Before Russia’s Feb.24 invasion of Ukraine, the outlook for the U.S.economy was stressed but hopeful.Pandemic pressures appeared to be peaking, inflation was widely expected to normalize, and the Fed stood a credible chance of engineering a “soft landing.” Read more on […]
Facebook To Be Prosecuted In South Africa For “Abusing Its Dominance”
Meta Platforms and its WhatsApp subsidiary has been found to be anticompetitive by South Africa’s Competition Commission, which has referred the social giant to the Competition Tribunal “for prosecution… for abuse of dominance”. It could result in Meta, Facebook and WhatsApp being fined “10% of their collective turnover” in the […]
PlayStation Seems To Understand It’s Lost The Crossplay War, As ‘Wonderlands’ Indicates
There are certain trends that seem inevitable in the gaming sector, and one that’s been pretty clear for a while now is the emergence of crossplay for third party games.But while crossplay between Microsoft, PC and even Nintendo has been relatively easy since the start of this trend, Sony and […]
Getta Clue founders got through the Great Recession and Covid. Here’s what’s next for the streetwear retailers.
After 30 years, staying open during a recession and navigating a pandemic, Getta Clue Store LLC owners [Justin Bilbao](sacramento/search/results?q=Justin Bilbao) and [Scott Gilbert](sacramento/search/results?q=Scott Gilbert) now face a different business challenge — keeping up with current trends in a fast-paced fashion landscape where the competition is the internet and direct-to-consumer brands. […]
Idaho lawmakers pass Texas-style abortion bill that would let potential family members sue – CBS News
Legislation that would ban abortions in Idaho after six weeks of pregnancy by allowing potential family members to sue a doctor who performs one headed to the governor on Monday.The state’s House voted Monday to approve the legislation, which is modeled after a Texas law that the U.S.Supreme Court has […]
3-year-old accidentally shoots his mom to death in family’s car in a suburban Chicago supermarket parking lot – CBS News
A 3-year-old boy accidentally shot his mother to death as the family was sitting in their car in a suburban Chicago supermarket parking lot, police said.The woman was shot Saturday in Dolton and pronounced dead at a hospital, police said. The family was sitting in their car outside a Food […]