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Lifestyle

From living rooms to landfills, some holiday shopping returns take a ‘very sad path’

It's peak season for returns, which are setting a new record. Some end up back on shelves or get resold to other merchants, and some wind up in landfills or sail overseas.

4 years ago

The milk shelf is mostly empty at a Giant grocery store on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. (Parker Purifoy/AP)
NPR
Community

Grocery store shortages are back. Here are some of the reasons why

No, you're not imagining it. Some grocery store shelves are bare again, conjuring bad memories of spring 2020 for many.

4 years ago

The Pasta Lab Philadelphia (Instagram)
Community

The Pasta Lab is turning out amazing noodles in a Kensington warehouse

It’s all made with Pennsylvania wheat and Lancaster dairy.

4 years ago

The Supreme Court heard challenges Friday to the Biden administration efforts to increase the nation's vaccination rate against COVID-19. (Evan Vucci/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Supreme Court conservatives seem skeptical of vaccine-or-test mandate for businesses

The Biden administration has estimated the rule would affect tens of millions of workers.

4 years ago

FILE - A hiring sign is shown at a booth for Jameson's Irish Pub during a job fair on Sept. 22, 2021, in the West Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Hiring in California slowed significantly in November 2021 even as the state's unemployment rate dipped below 7% for the first time since March 2020, at the start of the pandemic, according to data made public Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
Community

A record 4.5 million Americans quit their jobs in November

The Labor Department also reported that employers posted 10.6 million job openings in November, down from 11.1 million in October but still high by historical standards.

4 years ago

Health care workers administer nasal swabs to drivers and passengers at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site
Health

Omicron upends return to U.S. schools and workplaces

Across the U.S., new COVID-19 cases have tripled in the past two weeks to over 400,000 a day, the highest level on record, amid a rush by many Americans to get tested.

4 years ago

Elizabeth Holmes walks into federal court in San Jose, Calif. (Nic Coury/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Elizabeth Holmes verdict: Former Theranos CEO is found guilty on 4 counts

Elizabeth Holmes, the former chief executive of the once high-flying biotech startup Theranos, was found guilty on four counts of defrauding the company's investors.

4 years ago

Outdoor dining at Parc on Rittenhouse Square
Health

Philly’s indoor dining vaccine mandate is officially in effect

For the next two weeks, restaurants may accept a negative COVID-19 test from the past 24 hours in lieu of proof of full vaccination.

4 years ago

Vehicles are parked in front of a CVS Pharmacy in Mount Lebanon, Pa., on Monday May 3, 2021. CVS Health will close hundreds of drugstores over the next three years, as the retail giant adjusts to changing customer needs and converts to new store formats. The company said Thursday, Nov. 18, that it will close about 300 stores a year for the next three years as it looks to reduce store count density in some locations.
Money

Rite Aid and CVS to close stores in 2022. What is driving the downturn?

This year saw the consolidation of big pharmacy chains around the country, even as they played a crucial role in COVID-19 testing and vaccination.

4 years ago

The Lunar Inn is one of the places crowdfunding support for staff during the omicron surge (Facebook / The Lunar Inn)
Community
Billy Penn

Restaurant workers in Philly are turning to GoFundMe to survive COVID closures (again)

This wave of forced shutdowns is coming during what’s usually the busy season.

4 years ago

Pedestrians carry plastic bags in Philadelphia
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Community

Philly will start enforcing plastic bag ban next year. Many stores aren’t ready

The Philadelphia Department of Licenses and Inspections has issued 120 warnings to 84 businesses believed to be operating in violation of the ban.

4 years ago

People seated at the bar inside a restaurant.
Community

‘Mad or nah?’: Philly residents react to the newest indoor dining restrictions

P.O.C, a partner in WHYY’s News and Information Community Exchange, hit the streets of Philadelphia to hear how residents are reacting to the forthcoming restrictions.

4 years ago

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A shopper carries her bags after leaving a department store in Oxford Street on Christmas Eve in London, Friday, Dec. 24, 2021. The emergence of the new COVID-19 omicron variant and the world's desperate and likely futile attempts to keep it at bay are reminders of what scientists have warned for months: The coronavirus will thrive as long as vast parts of the world lack vaccines
Community

Omicron isn’t stopping at least one Christmas tradition — last-minute shopping

Shoppers lined up outside South Jersey shops Friday, despite the recent spike in omicron cases.

4 years ago

Yuengling beer
Community

Yuengling accuses Bud Light of trampling on trademark

Bud Light had been calling its forthcoming brew the “next generation of beer.” Yuengling says that's too close to the trademarked slogan it uses for its low-carb brew Flight.

4 years ago

A collage of 1960s and 1970s menthol cigarette advertisements that targeted Black Americans.
Radio Times

‘Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette’

In his book, "Pushing Cool," Princeton professor Keith Wailoo exposes how the tobacco industry targeted Black Americans with menthol cigarette marketing.

Air Date: December 22, 2021 10:00 am

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