BlendJet is recalling millions of portable blenders over laceration and fire hazards after receiving dozens of reports of injuries, U.S. regulators said Thursday. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) says the recall covers about 4.8 million blenders in the U.S. and about 117,000 were sold in Canada. BlendJet 2 Portable Blenders can overheat or catch fire, … Read more
The storied building at 1920 Market St. in Downtown Denver will start a new chapter with the New Year. The space, which served as home base for the cast of “Real World Denver” nearly two decades ago, will soon debut as Riot House, a restaurant and club specializing in DJ dance parties and bottle service. … Read more
LONDON — Cheers are in order for the British high street as it slowly recovers. Footfall on Tuesday, known as Boxing Day in Britain, rose by 4 percent across all U.K. retail destinations when compared to last year. The results were mostly driven by the high street and central London, accounting for an 8.8 percent … Read more
Amid high inflation, rising operating costs and shrinking Canadian demand, clothing designers in Nova Scotia say they’re struggling to find a sustainable business model. Designers say they’ve had to adjust to significant changes in consumer behaviour, supply chain disruptions and inflation as they’ve navigated through the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. “We’ve made a lot of hard decisions. … Read more
Retailers are bracing for a challenging start to the new year as a combination of weakened consumer demand and a surge in costs, including an elevated minimum wage, looms on the horizon. Projections released by Think Tank suggest that consumers are likely to maintain a cautious approach to spending in the initial months of 2024. … Read more
William H. Macy describes his first visit to the mountains near Aspen, Colorado, as “pretty much love at first sight.” It was sometime in the mid-1980s, Macy recalls, and he was traveling with then-girlfriend Felicity Huffman back to the area where she grew up. “Her mom was a magnificent cook, and they ride horses,” Macy … Read more
CULTURE OF GIVING AND THE SPIRIT OF GIVING Singaporeans have consistently been adept at regifting; the Lion City came up tops in a 2014 Rakuten survey of 7,000 respondents across seven nations, with 45 per cent happy and willing to regift. Does this mean the needle on regifting is clearly moving towards the yea side … Read more
New Kia vehicles that have arrived from overseas are sitting on a storage lot in Wolverton, Ont., purposely locked up even though customers have been waiting months and months — some well over a year — to get their vehicles. The new cars are being withheld from Kia’s Ontario dealerships — and reportedly from many more … Read more
Canada’s economy was essentially unchanged for the third consecutive month in October, missing growth forecasts, but gross domestic product likely edged up in November, Statistics Canada data showed on Friday. Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast a 0.2 per cent month-over-month rise. September’s GDP was downwardly revised to zero growth from an initial report of … Read more
It could be a Hollywood log-line: two beautiful sisters-in-law named Veronica join together to launch a fashion label in New York City, make it big with dickey jackets of all things, and set out to conquer the world. It’s not, at least not yet — it’s the story of Veronica Beard, the label founded in … Read more
