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Hampshire-based Leslie Francis, who owns Enham Village Post Office & Stores in Enham Alamein, wept tears of joy when she received the news that she had been recognised in the New Year’s Honours list with a British Empire Medal.
“I was so surprised and honoured to receive the medal,” said Leslie, who is the village postmistress and runs the Spar store with her husband Tim. “I got a phone call out of the blue and had tears of joy running down my face but I couldn’t let on, even to a friend who was in the shop at the time, only to reassure her that it was good news.”
She was recognised for the range of services she provides to her local community. “Our shop is the hub of Enham Alamein and we love serving this community, neighbouring villages and passers-by,” she said. “We adapted the shop to make wider aisles to make it easier for our customers in wheelchairs or walking sticks and frames.”
Rod Tucker, sales director for Appleby Westward, said: “We are delighted for Leslie. She and Tim are model Spar retailers who never hesitate to go that extra mile for everyone in their community.”
Nick Read, Post Office chief executive, said: “I personally know Leslie and Tim and they are great ambassadors for the Post Office. They really go above and beyond for their community, adapting their store to make it easier for the large proportion of their customers who are elderly or disabled, arranging home deliveries, fundraising and putting on big celebrations for the village for special occasions.”
Post Office area manager, Mitchell Taylor, added: “To hear that Leslie has been mentioned in the New Year Honours is truly inspiring. She is an absolute pillar of not just her community but surrounding villages and parishes. She is a member of our internal postmaster forums where she regularly joins and contributes to our future - a true Post Office ambassador. Leslie has a unique vision for her business and the first question she asks with any change is ‘How will this affect my community?’ I often joke that Leslie doesn’t sleep. It’s been such a privilege to work and support Leslie and her team over the last four years. Well done!”
Leslie and Tim moved over to Spar four years ago, having run the 100-year-old village store since 2004.
“We have always set high standards here and believe in moving with the times so we moved the business under the Spar fascia to give the store a real uplift for the future and we haven’t looked back,” said Leslie, who is also chairman of the parish council.


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Use apps to check prices in real-time. “The app ShopSavvy is really useful when you’re out shopping in stores because you can scan the barcode on items and see if there is a better deal elsewhere,” says Palmer of Nerdwallet. Woroch is also a fan of ShopSavvy, as well as Flipp, which provides circulars all in one place so you can quickly compare to plan your shopping trip strategically.
Some workers, "pickers", who travel the building with a trolley and a handheld scanner "picking" customer orders can walk up to 15 miles during their workday and if they fall behind on their targets, they can be reprimanded. The handheld scanners give real-time information to the employee on how fast or slowly they are working; the scanners also serve to allow Team Leads and Area Managers to track the specific locations of employees and how much "idle time" they gain when not working. In a German television report broadcast in February 2013, journalists Diana Löbl and Peter Onneken conducted a covert investigation at the distribution center of Amazon in the town of Bad Hersfeld in the German state of Hessen. The report highlights the behavior of some of the security guards, themselves being employed by a third party company, who apparently either had a neo-Nazi background or deliberately dressed in neo-Nazi apparel and who were intimidating foreign and temporary female workers at its distribution centers. The third party security company involved was delisted by Amazon as a business contact shortly after that report.
When it comes to TV sales personalities, none are more famous and revered than the late Billy Mays. Mays ran commercials for dozens of different products, but perhaps the most popular of those products was OxiClean, which is an easy to use, non-toxic, and remarkably effective cleaning detergent that can take care of dishes, polish silver, and clean virtually anything else. Billy Mays put his trademark enthusiasm behind the product, and its quality is known worldwide.
In early 2018, President Donald Trump repeatedly criticized Amazon's use of the United States Postal Service and pricing of its deliveries, stating, "I am right about Amazon costing the United States Post Office massive amounts of money for being their Delivery Boy," Trump tweeted. "Amazon should pay these costs (plus) and not have them bourne [sic] by the American Taxpayer." Amazon's shares fell by 6 percent as a result of Trump's comments. Shepard Smith of Fox News disputed Trump's claims and pointed to evidence that the USPS was offering below market prices to all customers with no advantage to Amazon. However, analyst Tom Forte pointed to the fact that Amazon's payments to the USPS are not public and that their contract has a reputation for being "a sweetheart deal".
Nail your timing. While it can be valuable to be one of the first in line for limited-quantity products, if you’re going to shop online on Black Friday, timing may not actually matter all that much. According to data from deal-finding browser extension Honey, online purchases spike well after sunrise. “On Black Friday, spending peaked at 11 a.m. PST in Los Angeles and at 12 p.m. EST in New York City,” says Kelly Parisi, Vice President of Communications at Honey.
In response to criticism that Amazon doesn’t pay its workers a livable wage, Jeff Bezos announced beginning November 1, 2018, all U.S. and U.K. Amazon employees will earn a $15 an hour minimum wage. Amazon will also lobby to make $15 an hour the federal minimum wage. At the same time, Amazon also eliminated stock awards and bonuses for hourly employees.
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Amazon first entered the media industry as a major online retailer in the late ‘90s. The company began by selling CDs and DVDs to a burgeoning market of online shoppers who began turning to the internet for music and movies, before the technical feasibility of streaming and the advent of the iPod. But it wasn’t until 2005, with the initial launch of Amazon Prime, that the company began laying the ground work for a future digital media ecosystem that integrated directly into its online store.
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Throughout the summer of 2018, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders criticized Amazon's wages and working conditions in a series of YouTube videos and media appearances. He also pointed to the fact that Amazon had paid no federal income tax in the previous year. Sanders solicited stories from Amazon warehouse workers who felt exploited by the company. One such story, by James Bloodworth, described the environment as akin to "a low-security prison" and stated that the company's culture used an Orwellian newspeak. These reports cited a finding by New Food Economy that one third of fulfilment center workers in Arizona were on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Responses by Amazon included incentives for employees to tweet positive stories and a statement which called the salary figures used by Sanders "inaccurate and misleading". The statement also charged that it was inappropriate for him to refer to SNAP as "food stamps". On September 5, 2018, Sanders along with Ro Khanna introduced the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (Stop BEZOS) Act aimed at Amazon and other alleged beneficiaries of corporate welfare such as Wal-mart, McDonald's and Uber. Among the bill's supporters were Tucker Carlson of Fox News and Matt Taibbi who criticized himself and other journalists for not covering Amazon's contribution to wealth inequality earlier.
In March 2015, it was reported in The Verge that Amazon will be removing non-compete clauses of 18 months in length from its US employment contracts for hourly-paid workers, after criticism that it was acting unreasonably in preventing such employees from finding other work. Even short-term temporary workers have to sign contracts that prohibit them from working at any company where they would "directly or indirectly" support any good or service that competes with those they helped support at Amazon, for 18 months after leaving Amazon, even if they are fired or made redundant.
Like on Black Friday, for online Cyber Monday shoppers, there’s no need to wake before the rooster crows. Honey’s Parsi says that for their users, spending peaked at 4 p.m. PST in Los Angeles and 11 p.m. EST in New York City last year. “On Cyber Monday, there is less pressure to get an early start because retailers are often better stocked online, where they store items in large warehouses—not on shop shelves with limited space—and can ship items from different locations to make up for shortfalls,” Palmer agrees. “Plus, many Cyber Monday sales actually start on Sunday.”
Yet the more monumental retail push occurred last summer, when Amazon purchased grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.7 billion and proved, yet again, that Bezos is willing and able to buy his way into a new market when it’s unfavorable to start from scratch. Amazon now uses Whole Foods’ grocery pick-up and delivery perks and in-store discounts as a way to reward its Prime subscribers. It’s also using its massive resources to lower Whole Foods prices, making it more competitive with Kroger, Target, and Walmart. In response, Walmart has begun investing heavily in e-commerce and grocery delivery to protect its turf from Amazon, setting the stage for an unprecedented retail war.
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Looking at the popularity of drive-in windows for banks and fast food restaurants, it is easy to see that in today`s fast-paced society, consumers love convenience.
And people are increasingly finding that “e-commerce,” purchasing goods electronically through the Internet, is easy and convenient.
One thing that makes e-commerce attractive is that buyers don`t have to pay sales tax.
In many cases, the savings from not paying sales tax means that goods can be delivered right to the door at the same cost as picking up the items at a local store. Savings from not paying sales tax cover shipping charges.
But as shoppers increasingly use the Internet to purchase goods, what impact does that have on the municipal and state governments that depend on sales tax revenues to fund vital services?
The results could be devastating to Mississippi, according to the Mississippi Municipal Association (MMA).


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Update (August 29, 2018): With just two days to go for The Body Shop to reach its goal of 8 million signatures to the Forever Against Animal Testing petition, your voice is more important than ever. "We, the undersigned, are calling on the United Nations to adopt an international convention that will end animal testing for cosmetics products and ingredients everywhere and forever," the petition's manifesto reads — and who could ever argue with that? Help spread the message now, and then go pet a bunny or something.
This story was originally published on May 31, 2017.
It’s relatively easy to shop for cruelty-free beauty products these days, but that wasn’t always the case. For a very long time, a lack of awareness around the topic meant that most people didn’t really know how the practice impacted the makeup, skin, and hair care industries. Only in the past two decades has that changed for the better — and The Body Shop has played a pioneering role in the shifting ideals.
In 1989, with late founder Anita Roddick at the helm and in partnership with Cruelty Free International, the international beauty brand became the very first to campaign against animal testing. Over two decades of continued efforts paid off big time in 2003, when animal testing for cosmetics and cosmetic ingredients was officially banned by the European Union. That was huge — but The Body Shop is about to kick off something even bigger.
Tomorrow, the brand will join forces with Cruelty Free International once again to announce its Forever Against Animal Testing campaign. The goal? To collect 8 million signatures from people all over the world. One million alone will get the petition through the door at the United Nations, so they’re aiming high with this one — and for good reason. The objective is to call for an international convention that will ban animal testing worldwide, for good. With new technological advancements, there are now plenty of viable alternatives to testing on animals that are often quicker, cheaper, and more effective — so why is anyone still doing it?
Look at the numbers: Cosmetics and ingredients have been tested on animals for over 50 years. Cruelty Free International estimates that 500,000 animals are used for cosmetics testing globally each year. That’s 1,390 a day, and 25,000,000 over 50 years. Plus, 80% of countries worldwide don’t have any laws against animal testing. Did we mention that a single ingredient being tested can kill at least 1,400 animals? When you put it that way, 8 million signatures seems like a pretty reasonable goal to reach.
Now, here’s where you (and you, and you, and you) come in: Sign the petition today, and get all your friends to do it, too. (You can follow along and spread the word by tagging #ForeverAgainstAnimalTesting and @TheBodyShop, too.) Because there’s no reason we should have to sacrifice the lives of innocent creatures just to make sure our lipstick doesn’t go on patchy — and in a world where the President of the United States is considering putting the kibosh on a climate-change agreement that helped protect the planet from greenhouse gases, the least we can do is give our fellow animals a hand. Who knows when we might be needing their help?


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Papa Murphy's has 'disappointing' 3Q
- The Columbian
Vancouver-based pizza purveyor Papa Murphy's
announced Wednesday that it sustained a net loss of $421,000, or 3 cents per diluted share, on lower per-store sales for its fiscal third quarter ended Sept. 26. Revenue for the quarter was $28.5 million, ...
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Papa Murphy's (FRSH) Misses Q3 EPS by 8c
- StreetInsider.comPapa Murphy's
(NASDAQ: FRSH) reported Q3 EPS of ($0.03), $0.08 worse than the analyst estimate of $0.05. Revenue for the quarter came in at $28.5 million versus the consensus estimate of $31.26 million. Ken Calwell, President and Chief Executive ...
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Frozen pizza chain considers WV locations
- Charleston Gazette-Mail (subscription)Papa Murphy's
, a pizza chain that serves frozen pizzas for customers to bake at home, is looking to open four stores in Southern West Virginia in the next one to three years. “We're looking forward to partnering with the right people to help us develop ...
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Papa Murphy's to launch first-ever national ad campaign in 2017
- Nation's Restaurant News
Hoping to find traction in the increasingly competitive pizza space, Papa Murphy's
Holdings Inc. said it plans to launch its first-ever national advertising campaign next year after swinging to a loss in the third quarter, the company said Wednesday.
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Yesterday, I discovered that Apple had changed the URLs of all its online man pages. Without, I should add, creating redirects so old links would continue to work. This broke all the man page links I had here at ANIAT and undoubtedly broke links across the internet.
Adding a redirect from the prior URL to the new one is old-hat basic stuff. I’d be shocked about this if I didn’t run into an issue earlier this year where I discovered that Apple News links don’t automatically redirect from the http:// version to the https:// version, and simply display a 404 error page instead.
Intel has been struggling. After announcing plans to cut 11% of their workforce, they’re now terminating their smartphone SoC plans, as reported by Ian Cutress and Ryan Smith of AnandTech:
Today’s big news out of Intel is along these lines, and with strategy and workforce news behind them, we have our first announcements on product changes that will come from Intel’s new strategy. In a report on Intel’s new strategy published by analyst Patrick Moorhead, Moorhead revealed that Intel would be radically changing their smartphone SoC plans, canceling their forthcoming Broxton and SoFIA products and in practice leaving the smartphone market for at least the time being.
Given the significance of this news we immediately reached out to Intel to get direct confirmation of the cancelation, and we can now confirm that Intel is indeed canceling both Broxton and SoFIA as part of their new strategy.
Intel really missed the boat on the post-PC era, as Apple likes to call it. What a shame. I hope they can get back on some more solid footing.
Great post from Sebastiaan de With on the evolution of emoji on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone:
Significant design differences in emoji can be a hassle at best, but at worst it completely alters the meaning of a communication, and creates a jarring disconnect between the intended meaning the sender is trying to convey to the recipient. Imagine if the letters of our latin script varied depending on the phone you used!
The development of the Latin alphabet occurred over the span of thousands of years. We’re seeing a minor subset of that take place in real time, comparatively speaking. That’s absolutely fascinating to me.
Bizarre back-and-forth between Piet Brauer, the developer of a GitHub app for the iPad, and Phil Schiller on Twitter, collected by Michael Tsai. In short, Brauer’s app was rejected for using a web view to allow people to sign in with GitHub because that login page — which GitHub controls — has their own registration links on it. Brauer had to inject some CSS onto the page to hide those links, and was still rejected on the same grounds:
11.13: Apps that link to external mechanisms for purchases or subscriptions to be used in the app, such as a “buy” button that goes to a web site to purchase a digital book, will be rejected
I understand why this rule is in place — Apple doesn’t want companies to subvert their 30% cut by placing the purchasing mechanism on a webpage. But this seems like a case where the spirit of the rule should apply more than the letter of it. Even App Review thinks it’s ridiculous.
Today Apple announced a new Apple Music API via its Affiliate Program Newsletter. According to Apple, the API:
…allows iOS apps to directly control Apple Music playback and more. We encourage affiliates to use the Apple Music API to provide a superior user experience by integrating music into their apps.
With the Apple Music API you can:
See if a user is currently an Apple Music member
See which country the user’s account is based in
Queue up the next song or songs based on a song ID for playback
Inspect playlists already in My Music or create a new playlist with a title and description (see App Store Review Guidelines for limitations).
It’s still early days for this API. I hope the door opens soon for apps that can provide their own recommendation engines and use Apple Music for the backend; I’m not sure that’s possible with this API yet. It’s a good start.
For years, Google has struggled to get sure footing on its various hardware initiatives — moving delicately to handle partners and, at times, deliver products that consumers actually use. When one of its hardware chiefs, Regina Dugan, who ran its Advanced Technology and Project group, departed for Facebook, we reported that Google was plotting a hardware shake-up.
Here it is now. Osterloh will now oversee Google’s Nexus devices. His new hardware division also includes a suite of products called the “living room,” demonstrating Google’s priority on owning that space.
On the earnings call, Apple tried to spin numbers about upgrade cycles and the new customer wins it’s making over Android users. And that’s all well and good. But the device that might have the biggest impact on sales in the short term wasn’t even counted in the Q2 2016 earnings — the iPhone SE. […]
The product didn’t go on sale until March 31 so none of the sales were accounted in this earnings report, but Apple made a point to say that “demand has been very strong,” adding that it “exceeds supply at this point.”
In response to an analyst’s question, Cook went further saying that “it is clear that there is a demand there even much beyond what we thought.”
Only Apple knows exactly what the sales split is between the three different iPhone sizes currently available — in fact, they announced during the introduction of the iPhone SE that they sold 30 million four-inch iPhones in 2015. That’s about 13% of the total number of iPhones sold in 2015, so it’s not a huge market, but it’s still pretty significant.
Perhaps Apple figured that the SE would retain a fairly similar share of iPhone sales — that is, that those buying four-inch models chose to do so based primarily on screen size — and didn’t factor just how many people would dump a larger iPhone or Android model. Here’s hoping this can encourage a more regular four-inch update.
Interesting article from Thomas Gryta in the Wall Street Journal last week:1
Since the early days of Apple Inc.’s iPhone, most customers have avoided paying for the full price for the latest model. But the success of AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. since 2013 in shifting customers into plans that force them to pay the full price for devices — and separate that cost from monthly service fees — has consumers holding on to their devices longer.
Citigroup estimates the phone-replacement cycle will stretch to 29 months for the first half of 2016, up from 28 months in the fourth quarter of 2015 and the typical range of 24 to 26 months seen during the two prior years.
Since the separation of phone and plan is fairly common throughout the rest of the world, this basically means that the American phone replacement cycle is more closely aligning with that of a lot of other places.
Perhaps that provides an incentive for Apple to more rapidly iterate on the industrial design of their flagship iPhone models instead of the tick-tock pattern they’ve held to since the 3G.
Unless you have an account, you’ll probably have to do that thing where you Google the URL and click through. Sorry. ↩
One of the bright sparks from today’s Q2 earnings release was record revenue in the “Services” category (Apple Music, iTunes, the App Stores, iBooks, and so forth). On the call, both Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri emphasized that they’d continue to develop and improve all of their cloud services.
I certainly hope that’s the case because, as David Sparks notes, that category is in dire need. Cloud services may be generating record revenue, but they’re almost certainly Apple’s least-refined offerings:
My favorite music largely includes obscure living jazz artists and less obscure dead jazz artists. I’ve wasted hours favoriting albums and marking other “recommended” playlists as ones I don’t like. Nevertheless, I open iTunes nearly every day as I work at my iMac and get the same Selina Gomez [sic] album thrown at me in place of Theloneus Monk.
When I said that I was concerned that one of Cook’s comments on the call seemed to indicate that “shareholders come first, and Apple’s entire R&D strategy revolves around them”, this is what I meant: celebrating record revenues in a product category that is the source of many blemishes on Apple’s record. It’s an earnings call — and one in which they have to find bright spots for investors for whom $50 billion in revenue just isn’t enough — but I hope the internal discussion reinforces that financial results are not necessarily indicative of product quality or satisfaction.
Apple’s thirteen year seemingly-limitless growth machine has — dare I say, finally — found its limits. In a greater context, this quarter didn’t suck: Wikipedia’s list of record corporate quarters is somewhat outdated, but Q2 2016 would easily rank among the top twenty-five of all time corporate quarters in both revenues and profits. There were plenty of high points sprinkled throughout their earnings release today, as Jason Snell notes in his wrap-up post.
But, as Snell’s year-over-year unit growth graph shows, for the first time, all of Apple’s product lines sold fewer units than in last year’s Q2. Nothing can escape that simple fact.
Additionally, Apple is forecasting a significant decrease in year-over-year revenue for next quarter: $41–$43 billion compared to about $50 billion last year.
The financial media is having a field day with this, and I’m not surprised — while Apple forecast it in their last earnings release, it’s still big news. The tech press gets to keep running clickbait “Apple is doomed” articles. But I hope Apple’s reaction to this is to dig their heels in and deliver some spectacular products.
Creating value for shareholders by developing great products and services that enrich people’s lives will always be our top priority and the key factor driving our investment and capital allocation decisions.
I get that it’s an earnings call and extremely fragile shareholders want reassurance, but I wish this was phrased differently. What I hope Cook means by this is that Apple’s top priority is to create really great stuff and provide exemplary services that they hope people will buy and love, thereby assuaging trepidatious hedge fund billionaires.
But the way it’s phrased here is that shareholders come first, and Apple’s entire R&D strategy revolves around them. I sincerely hope this is just poorly articulated, because if it’s taken at face value, it’s deeply concerning.
Apologies to those of you not running a supercomputer — it’s an iMore link. Their great coverage continues to be belied by a shitty website. ↩
Kind of in line with the previous link, Joshua Topolsky on the state of big media companies:
Video will not save your media business. Nor will bots, newsletters, a “morning briefing” app, a “lean back” iPad experience, Slack integration, a Snapchat channel, or a great partnership with Twitter. All of these things together might help, but even then, you will not be saved by the magical New Thing that everyone else in the media community is convinced will be the answer to The Problem.
Beneath the Snow Falls and Facebook bots, what really makes a media company tick is its ability to deliver great stories in just the right voice. That’s why I write the way I do, and link to articles like these — I hope you, reader, see that. All of this other stuff is just stuff. It’s an extra delivery mechanism. But if all that’s being delivered is crap, the tinsel of the new hotness is immaterial.
On a related note, the Verge — Topolsky’s old haunt — launched a new gadget blog called Circuit Breaker. Its gimmick? The website is, as Nilay Patel puts it, “the backend for the Facebook mobile experience”.
Just a taste of Anna Wiener’s brilliant essay for N+1 magazine:
An old high school friend emails out of the blue to introduce me to his college buddy: a developer, new to the city, “always a great time!” The developer and I agree to meet for drinks. It’s not clear whether we’re meeting for a date or networking. Not that there’s always a difference: I have one friend who found a job by swiping right and know countless others who go to industry conferences just to fuck — nothing gets them hard like a nonsmoking room charged to the company AmEx. The developer is very handsome and stiltedly sweet. He seems like someone who has opinions about fonts, and he does. It’s clear from the start that we’re there to talk shop. We go to a tiny cocktail bar in the Tenderloin with textured wallpaper and a scrawny bouncer. Photographs are forbidden, which means the place is designed for social media. This city is changing, and I am disgusted by my own complicity.
“There’s no menu, so you can’t just order, you know, a martini,” the developer says, as if I would ever. “You tell the bartender three adjectives, and he’ll customize a drink for you accordingly. It’s great. It’s creative! I’ve been thinking about my adjectives all day.”
And yet, one year later, I’m still wearing the thing every day.
Maybe I’m delusional. But I don’t think so. I feel like I still see a ton of people wearing them around as well. And actually, increasingly so. Yes, I live in San Francisco, so maybe I’m in a bubble (but not the Bubble).
Calgary is in the middle of a recession, but I have also seen a lot more Apple Watches lately while on my commute, on the pathway system, or on the streets. There’s a lot that I’m hoping for, both in software and in hardware, but as far as “failures” or “flops” are concerned, the Watch is a long way off, and the potential is huge.
If apps loaded in a few seconds instead of the 15–30 that they take today and the side button could be reprogrammed — almost any other function would be better than the contacts wheel — that would go a long way towards making the Watch more predictable and useful.
Shai Oster of Bloomberg was given a tour of one of Pegatron’s factories where iPhone models are assembled. In their latest supplier audit report, Apple says that they’ve been working hard to improve overtime compliance, and it seems that it’s working: they report a 97% compliance rate for 2015, up from 92% just three years earlier (PDF).
Worker pay is still a significant weakness for many tech company suppliers. While it has been improving, Oster illustrates how far it has left to go:
One improvement Pegatron executives were eager to share was increased income transparency. Employees can now check their hours, pay stubs, and monthly lodging and food expenses at touchscreen terminals throughout the campus. Including overtime, take-home pay averages 4,200 yuan to 5,500 yuan ($650-$850) a month. One employee, who helped workers access the automated information stations, showed her base salary was 2,020 yuan. An iPhone 6 in China costs 4,488 yuan.
For comparison, comparable factory workers in the United States, while not well-paid, earn an average of about $14 per hour.1 Assuming full-time occupation — and not the six-day workweek that contract factories consider “standard” — that works out to a wage of about $2,400 per month. The same iPhone 6 model costs just $549 in the U.S. or about 23% of a single month’s wages, compared to 81%–220% of a Pegatron employee’s monthly earnings.
Living conditions vary significantly around the world, and those for factory workers appear to have improved by leaps and bounds over what they once were, but there’s a ways to go yet.
I took an average of three factory or assembly workers that would be in a comparable field. You can find them by searching the BLS’ tables for “Machine Feeders and Offbearers”, “Team Assemblers”, and “Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers”. ↩
Usage is down not because users are tired of Twitter as a concept, they’re tired of Twitter, Inc. making 5 bad moves for every good one. As frivolous new features haphazardly got thrown on top of the pile, Twitter, Inc. neglected to address the kinds of abuse and harassment that drove existing users away for good. The apps and web interface became slower and clunkier. Algorithmic feeds and 10,000-character limits are now said to be coming down the line. Everything that first made Twitter appealing is on the way out. If I didn’t know better, it would seem like they were trying to get rid of people.
It’s amazing to think that a company whose content is provided for free, who gets free mass advertising from basically every angle, and whose only real responsibility is to Not Break Itself can’t figure out how to be sustainable. The only thing Twitter has going for it in 2016 is the fact that many users will stick around for lack of a better alternative. Whether that’s months or years is anyone’s guess.
In the end, I think that what the next ‘MacOS’ needs most is focus. Focus on what it has historically done best — ‘just working’. I don’t think that the current problems of OS X have much to do with its old age or its old models. It’s more a matter of identity. […]
What makes people love iOS, what makes people think iOS is much simpler than OS X is, I believe, its reliability. iOS feels positively predictable, dependable. This kind of reliability should become the main focus for the next ‘MacOS’, not just a continued aggregation of old, newer, and borrowed features swept under the carpet of a translucent, attractive UI.
I’m generally wary of essays that are about what Apple “should” or “needs to” do, but this isn’t that. It’s a rational critique of the OS X of today, and thoughts on directions it could take to preserve the qualities that make it a Macintosh.
In the morning of April 14, Chris Vickery, a hacker and security researcher, was browsing Shodan, a search engine for internet-connected devices and servers, when he noticed an unusually large database of more than 100 gigabytes on an Amazon cloud storage called “padron2015.”
As it turned out, the database contained the personal information, including full names, home addresses, and national identification numbers, of virtually all registered voters in Mexico. The information had been left completely open to anyone, as there was no passwords or any other protection on it.
You might think that governments would be cracking down on their information security after the personal data of hundreds of millions of others was leaked recently, but I guess not.
Director of the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection Jessica Rich:
As I told the NAI, the disclosures and choices companies offer to people must address the many forms of tracking companies are using, including proprietary techniques that combine technologies like cookies, fingerprinting, cookie syncing, and many others. They also must apply when companies track consumers not on one, but across multiple devices. People can’t be led to believe tracking is more limited than it is, or that they’ve blocked all tracking when that’s not the case. And if the choices offered to people don’t cover all the ways a company tracks them, the company must clearly and prominently say so. I also told the NAI that these choices must be easy to understand and use, and shouldn’t require multiple steps.
I think the FTC would be shocked to find out how much information can be — and is — collected during casual browsing of the web, for which there is little way to reliably opt out. Targeted, behavioural advertising ought to be something consumers must opt-in to, not out of.
Antitrust sceptics see the Android case as yet more proof that such legal action is just not worth it in the fast-moving tech world. Even if a decision comes soon, it will take time for a remedy to change things on smartphone screens. And by then the market for mobile software may have changed completely: instant messaging apps are growing into application platforms of their own and text-based services called “chatbots” are poised to become an alternative to apps. But it is easy to forget that although in the Microsoft case, too, the remedy came late and was of limited relevance, being under antitrust scrutiny forced the company to offer competitors more room. One of the main beneficiaries was none other than Google.
Since the tech industry does move so quickly while the legal system tends to move slower — particularly for complex cases like this — decisions are often made after they’re entirely relevant. Apple’s long-running dispute with Samsung, for example, produced a list of largely-outdated devices barred from import into the United States. But cases like these can also be an attempt to put the infringing parties under closer watch, in addition to being a formal list of charges to be settled. Put another way: there’s the strictly legal rationale, and then there’s the behavioural rationale.


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Sales of new motor vehicles in Australia climbed to their highest level in 22 months in March, a sign consumers still have the confidence to splash out on big ticket items.
Government figures released today showed new vehicle sales rose 4 per cent in March to 89,694 on a seasonally adjusted basis, the highest total since May 2010. It was also the largest increase in seven months and compared to an upwardly revised 86,203 in February.
Sales in March were up 4.0 per cent on the same month last year.
Sales of sports utility vehicles resumed their blistering run with an increase of 7.5 per cent in March, from the previous month, to leave them 18.4 per cent higher for the year.
Sales of passenger vehicles rose 3.3 per cent in the month, while sales of other vehicles increased by 1.4 per cent.


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Maria Woodall, detective superintendent of the City of London Police, said in a statement that many individuals are unaware of the dangers behind fake beauty products.
"Criminals are exploiting every opportunity to fool customers into buying counterfeits in order for them to make some quick cash - putting peoples' health, homes and lives at risk. Beauty products are meant to enhance your features however the fakes can in fact do quite the opposite," said Woodall.
Health isn't the only risk factor. Woodall warned that many who used the online fake makeup stores also risk online and identity theft.
Having seized over £3.5 million ($5.49m) worth of fake products in the last 18 months alone, PIPCU has suggested that if a product offer looks "too good to be true" it probably will be.
Methods suggested in checking product authenticity includes only dealing with reputable online sellers, checking the shipping address, and asking if there's a returns policy.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Trucking activity is surging thanks to an array of economic factors in the U.S., but there would be a steep price to pay if U.S. President Donald Trump follows through on threats to pull out of NAFTA.
“NAFTA trade via truck supports over 46,000 jobs in our industry, including nearly 31,000 truck driver jobs,” American Trucking Associations chief economist Bob Costello observed during a keynote address to Omnitracs’ fourth-annual Outlook conference.
“NAFTA is critical to trucking.”
The fear is whether Trump will decide to pull out of the trade deal as a negotiating tactic, he said. Should that happen, tariffs would rise, and cross-border goods would cost more.
The best case scenario would be a pause in negotiations after an upcoming round of trade talks in Mexico, and maybe another quick one before Mexican elections, he said. “Pay attention to the media after this round. I think it will tell you a lot.”
But Costello’s presentation was hardly one of doom and gloom. The U.S. trucking industry continues to benefit from a thriving economy – particularly against a backdrop of rising consumer activity, construction, and factory output.
The real GDP in the U.S. is forecast to grow 2.7% this year and next year. “Part of that is the new tax law. That added 0.3 percentage points this year,” he said. Costello also expects the federal reserve to increase interest rates to normalize, likely rising in every quarter. “When bank margins improve, they are more likely to make loans,” he said.
Strong housing starts certainly lead to an increase in flatbed activity, but don’t forget the impact on dry vans, either. “You’ve got to put furniture in them,” Costello observed. Factory output was up 1.7% this year and should grow 3.3% this year, reaching some of the highest levels since the great recession. And LTL carriers are among the biggest winners when the latter freight increases.
The driver shortage and e-commerce
Still, there are challenges.
With unemployment rates hovering around 4%, close to full employment, it’s difficult to find workers in every sector of the economy.
“We know that’s the case with truck drivers,” Costello said.
The natural response has been to boost pay, and wages and salaries for U.S. drivers have grown about 3% over the past year. But this doesn’t necessarily mean that drivers are taking home more pay. Tractors that once traveled 125,000 miles a year can struggle to hit 100,000 miles in the current operating environment. The average dry van shipment traveled 796 miles in 2000, but 527 miles last year, Costello explained, citing changes in the supply chain.
Look no further than e-commerce for one of the most significant reasons why. Since 2000, e-commerce sales for non-store retailers are up 246%, while brick and mortar operations have seen their online sales rise 78% — reaching 16% of sales overall. These goods, however, carry promises of two-day deliveries, and that means retailers have needed to hold more inventory and establish more distribution centers.
The way these shippers effectively package freight is also changing the number of truckloads that are required. “Shippers are now shipping less air,” he said. “They’ve figured out packaging exactly.” Producers of goods like laundry detergent are finding way to remove water from their goods, and it isn’t the only way transformed products are making a difference. Trailers that once held 100 big screen TVs can now move hundreds of flat screens, for example.
“Our growth potential is not as high as it once was, at least in the number of loads,” he said.
But the growth in recent trucking activity has still been strong, even in that context.
From 2000-07, truckload volumes were relatively flat, expanding at a rate of about 0.9% per year. Between 2010-14 the annual growth was closer to 2.6%. That dropped to 1.1% in 2015 and was relatively flat in 2016, but the tonnage is picking up. Factory output will push it higher, Costello said. “If you’re LTL, expect more freight coming your way.”
Truck sales and the driver search
While truck sales are strong – creating one of the biggest markets in 25 years — it’s unknown what share of the vehicles are for replacements rather than adding capacity, Costello noted.
When fracking activity began to slow down in 2015, large fleets stuck with the number of trucks they had in hand. Small fleets with revenues below $30 million per year were quick to add capacity, and they filled driver seats with employees who had been laid off from jobs in the oil fields.
By 2016, large fleets pulled back tractor counts by 5%. In contrast, small fleets increased by 5.1% — in part because there was low-mileage used equipment on the market. Both the average miles per truck and the price per truck dropped 15% in a two-year period. By the time freight volumes turned around in early 2017, large fleet capacity still dropped because no drivers were available. Small fleets allowed their fleet sizes to shrink 0.2%.
Finding people to sit behind a steering wheel for any of the fleets remains an intensifying challenge.
Driver turnover rates in the U.S. truckload sector were around 86% in the third quarter of 2017. Costello expects the numbers to reach 90% for the year when final figures are analyzed.
That turnover costs the trucking industry an estimated US $1 billion a year, and the shortage intensifies.
Last year’s shortage of 51,000 drivers, largely in the over-the-road space, may seem small in the context of 3.5 million truck drivers or even the 1.7 million drivers that include those at the wheel of dump trucks and cement mixers. But there’s actually only about 500,000 drivers who work in the over-the-road segment, he said.
“At current trends we could end up at 174,000 short by 2026. But you know what? I don’t think that’s going to happen,” Costello predicted, noting how wages would push higher and attract more people. “It has been, and it should, and it will continue to do that. And it must.”
So, too, might there be a need for policy changes that lower the minimum age for interstate truck drivers in selected cases, with the right training and technology. They’re currently allowed in 48 states but can’t cross state lines, he said.
“Demand for drivers is heating up significantly,” Costello told the crowd. “We need to somehow attract 900,000 new drivers to the trucking industry every year.”
The economist also had a message for shippers who are worried about available capacity. They have the means to create it.
“Stop making the drivers wait,” he said, referring to delays that will be clearly identified through mandated ELDs. “The smart ones are trying to figure that out.”
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Marketing agency Charge has taken to the city streets in north east England to promote “Don’t let drink sneak up on you”, an alcohol abuse awareness campaign being run by the NHS’ Change 4 Life project. Passers-by were handed NFC-compatible wristbands which allowed those with an NFC phone to tap to download a drinks tracker app for their phone. Participants could also access the app by scanning QR codes on cards handed out during the campaign.
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US President Donald Trump has announced a delay to his proposal of a massive increase in Chinese import tariffs by 15 days. Describing this as a goodwill gesture, Trump said on Wednesday night that he had moved the increased tariffs on USD 250 Billion worth of goods October 1 to October 15.
"At the request of the Vice Premier of China, Liu He, and due to the fact that the People's Republic of China will be celebrating their 70th Anniversary on October 1st, we have agreed, as a gesture of goodwill, to move the increased Tariffs on 250 Billion Dollars worth of goods (25% to 30%), from October 1st to October 15th," Trump tweeted. Top Chinese officials are scheduled to arrive in the US for talks early October. Since last year, the two countries are working on a comprehensive trade deal, which not only addresses the issue of balance of trade but also ends the theft of intellectual property and coercion of American companies in China.
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday welcomed an apparent olive branch from Beijing in the grinding trade war between the two nations, which came weeks before negotiations are due to resume. Beijing announced it was temporarily exempting some US exports from tariff increases, a gesture that lifted equities markets long buffeted by the ups and downs in the conflict now entering its second year. "It was a big move," Trump told reporters at the White House. He reiterated that Beijing was under pressure to strike a bargain as its economy weakens, which he attributed to US actions.
Top negotiators expect to reconvene in Washington early next month after an acrimonious summer in which trade relations deteriorated sharply and both governments announced waves of new tariffs in a stand-off that is dragging on the global economy. However, the goods exempted do not include high-profile agricultural items like soybeans and pork that could be crucial to the ultimate success of any agreement. The exemptions will become effective on September 17 and be valid for a year, according to the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council, which released two lists that include seafood products and anti-cancer drugs.
The lists mark the first time Beijing has announced products to be excluded from tariffs. Other categories that will become spared include alfalfa pellets, fish feed, medical linear accelerators and mold release agents, and the commission said it was also considering further exemptions. Both sides imposed fresh tit-for-tat tariffs on September 1, adding to the duties that now cover hundreds of billions of dollars of goods.
But US businesses in China are increasingly pessimistic about their prospects, with a report released Wednesday saying growing numbers of companies expect their revenues and investment in the local market to shrink. The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai said just 47 percent said they expected to increase their investments in China in 2019 -- down from 62 per cent last year -- while three-quarters of businesses surveyed said they opposed the use of punitive tariffs by the United States to force China into a trade deal.
In a sign of the economic pressure being felt by the Asian giant, the central People's Bank of China said on Friday it would lower the required amount of cash that lenders must keep in reserve, allowing for an estimated USD 126 billion in additional loans to businesses. China's economy grew 6.2 per cent on-year in the second quarter, the lowest rate in nearly three decades -- a fact Trump highlighted on Wednesday. Auto sales in China fell by 6.9 per cent in August compared with the previous year, an official industry association said Wednesday, extending a slump in a massive auto market that has long been a cash cow. It was the 14th consecutive monthly drop.


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Next sounds warning over autumn prices
Retailer Next warned its ranges could be up to 10% more expensive this autumn and winter as rising commodity prices continue to squeeze the business.
The high street giant, which has implemented average price rises of around 6% on its spring and summer products, has seen cotton prices climb to record highs while wage demands in the Far East have also increased.
The warning came as the retailer reported a 9% rise in pre-tax profits to £551 million in the year ending January. The increase was largely down to cost savings as the chain saw a 4% decrease in same-store retail sales.
Next suffered a torrid Christmas season, having revealed that the December snowfall cost it £22 million in lost sales.
The chain, and the wider retail sector, has been hit by a slowdown in consumer spending this year, as the VAT hike from 17.5% to 20% and soaring input costs squeeze household incomes.
Chief executive Simon Wolfson warned: "Things are likely to get worse before they get better."
He said: "Retailing will feel like walking up the down escalator - we will have to work hard to stand still.
"It seems likely that recent worldwide inflation in fuel, food and other essential commodities will further add to the financial pressure on the consumer. We believe inflation is exerting a greater burden on our customers' finances than Government cuts or lack of credit."
Next said it was able to deliver profit growth through controlling stocks and costs.
But the company did receive a boost from its online business - Next Directory - which now accounts for 27% of sales and 40% of profits. The number of customers using the website increased by 12.3% to 2.7 million.
The group opened eight new stores in the period and hopes to open 15 new Home stores in the year ahead. The chain currently has 29 Home stores in the UK.
The company said it expects profits for the new financial year to be between £520 million and £570 million. This is in line with current market expectations.
Shares in Next were up 4% today.
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Khairuddin Rahman walks very thin line between bravery & stupidity Leveraging nearly 25 years of experience with satellite technology
A go-getter who chased down a leading VC, Khailee Ng, and convinced him to fork out US$400k in 2013, Kendrick Wong is taking a measured approach to growing his fashion analytics startup, Omnilytics.
Targets 1 mil GO+ users by end 2021, complement 15 mil existing users Three specific areas identified for future products including personal lending
Time and commitment needed to break into overseas markets Benefited greatly from programmes such as MDEC's GAIN, Matrade's MDG
Important for the first SPACs in Southeast Asia to set benchmark. Helping firms understand the E and S in ESG to be on ‘right side of history’
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Small Japanese Soldier has created the identity and print work for Channel U, a music and youth lifestyle TV channel that launched on the digital Sky Network on Monday. SJS creative director Andy Hunns says the badge-like logo is ‘bold and impactful’. The work includes postcards and poster advertising and two ‘animated presenters’ – The BooKroo – licensed from hip-hop magazine Rewind, which will feature in idents. As well as being a TV jukebox, Channel U offers interactive content such as DJ-ing advice and styling tips, according to marketing manager Charlie Beutnin.
Offthetopofmyhead’s founder and creative director says there’s no such thing as brand design and much of what the design industry says about brand is incomprehensible, pretentious and just plain daft.
The new store — conceived by design and architectural practice Gensler — has a gaming lounge, multi-purpose Community Theatre and a McLaren sports car on the ground floor.
From vegan vending machines to zero plastic takeaways, the food industry is finding inventive solutions to its plastic problem.


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Chinese electric car company to open in L.A.
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A Chinese carmaker is preparing to set up shop in downtown L.A. The company is BYD, which stands for "build your dreams." BYD manufactures electric and hybrid vehicles. The company announced plans to have its North American headquarters in Los Angeles. That means more jobs.
Los Angeles and the state of California have each faced so much budget pain recently it seemed every day was filled with news of foreclosures, job losses and pay cuts. But Friday both Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger got to crow about a positive development.
"Today I am a happy governor because I always like when I hear that companies move to California and jobs come to California," said Schwarznegger.
BYD is a Chinese manufacturer of electric cars, solar panels and battery-storage technology. The company will set up its North American headquarters in a former Hyundai dealership in downtown Los Angeles.
"Here's a good example of how companies are coming to California because of our energy policy, rather than with some of the greedy oil companies of Texas who are claiming that we should roll back our environmental progress that we are making here," said Schwarzenegger. "But they're just jealous because this is a nightmare for the Texan oil companies. This company is a nightmare for them."
Initially, BYD plans to employ only 150 workers at its offices on South Figueroa, but city officials are confident the company, which employs 150,000 workers in China, will grow quickly here.
"One can imagine once they start here, there will be a multiplier effect, the suppliers, all the folks involved, it will grow," said L.A. City Councilman Bill Rosendahl.
To encourage the expansion, the city plans to waive a portion of port fees BYD would pay on cars and other products that it imports through Los Angeles.
Villaraigosa noted that pressure is growing to water down California's ambitious climate change laws. He says a "green-tech" company like BYD shows job growth and the environment are not mutually exclusive.
"The growth sector in the L.A. and California economy is in in green tech, clean tech, and L.A. is leading the way," said Villaraigosa.
BYD didn't exist until 15 years ago, but since then it has grown 70 percent per year in China. It is enough that investor Warren Buffet recently put $300 million in the company.
The electric cars will test-marketed in California next year.
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Bayer AG and alleged co-conspirator BASF are appealing a $265 million jury verdict in favor of a Missouri peach farmer who claimed dicamba herbicide formulations produced by the companies irreparably damaged his peach orchard.
In February, a federal jury in Missouri awarded Bill Bader, Missouri’s largest peach farmer, $15 million in actual damages and $250 million in punitive damages. Mr. Bader sued the herbicide manufacturers alleging their dicamba weedkillers drifted away from target fields onto his peach trees, causing massive damages that would eventually kill the orchard and put him out of business.
After the three-week trial and verdict, Bayer hired a private investigator to look into Mr. Bader’s peach farm. The investigator produced evidence that the retail arm of Mr. Bader’s trees were still producing fruit and the retail arm of his business continued to sell peaches. These findings, Bayer claims, demonstrate that Mr. Bader’s court victory was “based on the false premise that the farm would be completely out of the peach business by 2019.”
Mr. Bader’s lawyers called Bayer’s allegations “ridiculous,” saying that Bader farms continues to “sell some peaches, even though it has been devastated by dicamba.”
According to The Counter, Bader Farms once produced 162,000 bushels of peaches per season, but crops plummeted to a low of 12,000 bushels in 2018. Mr. Bader blamed the staggering decline to dicamba drift caused by farmers who allegedly sprayed the herbicide on their crops in the 2015-2016 season. Bader Farms said the damage worsened in 2017 when Bayer and BASF released their new dicamba formulas.
Mr. Bader is among several farmers throughout the U.S. blaming Bayer for dicamba-related crop damage.
Bayer acquired Monsanto in 2018 for $63 billion. Since then, the German multinational conglomerate has found itself mired in litigation over Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide and its dicamba products.
Bayer previously agreed to pay up to $10.9 billion to settle a slew of U.S. lawsuits brought by plaintiffs who blamed Monsanto’s Roundup for their cancer. Last month, the company said it would pay as much as $400 million to resolve lawsuits blaming airborne dicamba for crop failures.
Bader Farms alleged that Monsanto and BASF worked together to gain regulatory approval and get their products on the market for the 2017 growing season. The new formulations – Bayer’s Xtendimax and BASF’s Engenia, gained regulatory approval after Monsanto had developed and released the genetically modified soybean seeds it created to withstand the new dicamba formulas.
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Gerber Focuses on Sign and Graphics Business with New Organization Appointment
Monday, October 9, 2017•Categories: Signs & GraphicsTOLLAND, CONN., USA
Custom made printed products is an important industry that spans many markets including the sign and graphics and now taking off in the apparel industry. “Gerber is uniquely positioned to help its customers with custom printing with its more than 50 years in the sign and graphics business,” said Brandy Moore, vice president, global service and aftermarket. “We are excited to announce Jay Dorman as global director, sign and graphics to help lead our sign and graphics business and to focus on technology advancement.”
Dorman will be responsible for business and product development connecting new technology with our customers to decrease time to market and increase productivity by extending new product offerings to the industries Gerber serves.
“I am excited to lead our sign and graphics business and understand what our customers need for the future of their businesses,” said Jay Dorman. “There are so many additional applications for custom printing that Gerber could help their customers in other industries they serve.”
Dorman has served in several sales leadership roles at Gerber since 1980 for the sign and graphics business, managing regional and global teams. Jay is a graduate of the American International College and will continue to reside in Connecticut with his family.
About Gerber Technology
Gerber Technology delivers industry-leading software and automation solutions that help apparel and industrial customers improve their manufacturing and design processes and more effectively manage and connect the supply chain, from product development and production to retail and the end customer. Gerber serves 78,000 customers in 130 countries, including more than 100 Fortune 500 companies in apparel and accessories, home and leisure, transportation, packaging and sign and graphics.
Based in Connecticut in the USA, Gerber Technology is owned by AIP, a New York-based, global private equity firm specializing in the technology sector and has more than $3.0 billion assets under management.


text: With Halloween fast approaching, it will be interesting to look at the history of the Halloween.com domain name. All Hallows Evening, shortened to Halloween, is a celebration observed in many countries on October 31st. The Halloween that we experience today actually originated from Celtic Britain, adapted over many years to suit traditions and conventions. In the USA, Halloween is big business. In a Time article in 2016, it was estimated that Americans spent around $8.4 billion on Halloween supplies, up 22% on the previous year. Candy, costumes and decorations are all vital ingredients of a perfect Halloween. As far as domaining goes, there is only one perfect Halloween domain, and that is Halloween.com. Registered in August 1994, Halloween.com receives thousands of visitors per month, with the domain securing an average Alexa ranking of around 250,000, which almost doubles around Halloween thanks to type in traffic. However, regular visitors to Halloween.com may be disappointed to see that the site has remained largely the same since 2005, with the owner opting to keep things simple whilst profiting from several adverts listed on the site. Since 1994, Halloween.com has been in the hands of Christian Riley, an early Internet pioneer. The name may not be instantly recognizable, but Christian registered some of the best domains possible. Casino.com, Games.com and Hotel.com are just three of the domains that Christian registered back in 1994. Despite having sold many of his domains including Sale.com, Talk.com and Miami.com, Mr. Riley has kept a hold of plenty of his valuable domains, with many of those hosting revenue-generating websites. His seasonal websites such as SantaClaus.com and EasterBunny.com still receive thousands of visitors according to Alexa estimates, whilst Hurricane.com has been giving out valuable information to visitors for many years. Unsurprisingly, there has been a clear spike in traffic to Hurricane.com over the past several months. Although Mr. Riley boasts an impressive portfolio of names, Halloween.com must be considered to be one of Christian’s most prized domains, thanks to a combination of the popularity of Halloween and its commercial success. We recently spoke to Christian via email about the Halloween.com domain name, asking just a couple of quick questions. First, we asked him about the amount of visitors the domain receives: It's great to hear that Christian is planning on redeveloping the site for Halloween 2018. As we established earlier in this article, Halloween is a big business. So how valuable does that make Halloween.com? According to Christian: The largest "Halloween" domain sale, according to NameBio, is the $16,500 sales of CostumesForHalloween.com in 2012. Halloween.com will have many potential buyers with their own ideas on how to profit from the Halloween.com name, but Christian seems to be looking to the future with no plans to sell Halloween.com right now.


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Held in the elegant Stock Exchange Room at the Art Institute of Chicago, GABBCON Chicago brought brands, agencies, publishers and partners together to dive into a variety of programmatic television-related topics. Highlights included lively discussions around this year’s Upfronts announcements to new research highlighting what happened after 15 CPG brands pulled significant amounts of spend from TV. (Spoiler alert: sales suffered significantly from the reduction.)
GABBCON Chicago took place on April 6, 2016 and attracted a wide swath of Midwestern brand and agency delegates, including executives from ConAgra, Kellogg’s, MillerCoors, Spark, MediaLink, The Engine Group and Starcom MediaVest Group.
Hot topics of the conference included:
- The growing role of data in audience targeting for TV
- A realistic assessment of the limitations around what is known as “programmatic TV” today
- Tips on what brands such as ConAgra and Kellogg’s are looking for from programmatic partners
- Research demonstrating that the influence of TV remains substantial (at least for CPG)
DataXu’s CRO Ed Montes and The Engine Group’s CEO Lisa Weinstein participated in a 45-minute fireside chat during the morning portion of the agenda. In what was both a slightly controversial and often humorous session, Ed and Lisa touched on key trends in the industry, including:
- How programmatic is unlocking the ability to create new value using data
- Whether or not better targeting equals increased yield
- The news around this year’s Upfronts and the numerous, somewhat “fluffy” announcements preceding them
Later in the day, Gayle Smilanich, Associate Director of KNA Media Kellogg’s, highlighted the benefits of programmatic technology and the partners who provide the software and services to brands like Kellogg’s. Gayle stated that programmatic “does not represent the lowest price or a race to the bottom, it’s about optimizing outcomes. It’s about buying a targeted audience and ensuring performance.”
The conference also supported a special cause this year. Curt Hecht, a Chicago local and widely heralded by many in the industry as the original “father of programmatic,” fought bravely but ultimately succumbed in a battle against cancer. Table proceeds from GABBCON Chicago went towards Climb For A Cure, a not-for-profit funding immunotherapy research that is trying to cure cancer by 2020.
DataXu looks forward to appearing as a sponsor of GABBCON at the Festival of Media in Europe May 18-20 and at Cannes Lions June 18-26th.


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To Wal-Mart, Democracy is just another commodity you can buy — if you have enough money. In San Diego, California, Wal-Mart is attempting to buy public policy, and to overturn a city council vote. Their actions will cost local taxpayers million of dollars.
For several years, anti-big box residents have been trying to keep huge stores out of San Diego. On June 5, 2007, Sprawl-Busters reported that Wal-Mart was threatening a voter referendum on a big box ban in San Diego. Wal-Mart was very displeased with a city ordinance which placed a size cap on retail stores. A series of city council votes, stretching back to November, 2006, had prompted Wal-Mart to threaten city officials that if the size cap ordinance passed, the retailer would gather signatures to try to repeal the measure using the ballot.
In November, 2006, the city council took its first major step towards imposing a cap on the size of retail buildings when it voted 5-3 to ban retail stores of more than 90,000 s.f. that use 10% of their interior space to sell groceries or other merchandise that is not subject to sales tax. This ordinance was modeled on similar ordinances in California — most notably Turlock — where Wal-Mart failed repeatedly to challenge the law in the courts.
The Mayor of San Diego, Jerry Sanders, told reporters at the time that he would veto the new cap if it went through its required second vote in January. San Diego’s ordinance was seen as a pre-emptive strike, since the city had no Wal-Mart supercenter. But local sources indicated that Wal-Mart was ready to add several supercenters in San Diego.
In early June, 2007, the city council took its final vote to pass the new ordinance on a 5-3 vote. Mayor Sanders made it clear he would veto it, and to further intimidate the city council, Wal-Mart indicated that they would hire people to gather signatures to put the measure on the ballot in the form of a referendum.
Wal-Mart’s threat was enough, because holding a special election is very expensive, and city councilors were not prepared to tangle with Wal-Mart. Instead, when Mayor Sanders vetoed the ordinance in July, 2007, one city councilor, Donna Frye, changed her vote and opposed the ban, and voted with the Mayor. The San Diego Union-Tribune called Frye’s change of heart a “surprise twist.” This made the vote on the override a 4-4 tie, which meant the override did not prevail — and the Mayor’s veto killed the new big box ordinance Frye told the media she wanted to work on a new version of the law that will require big box stores to study their economic impacts on other businesses.
That’s exactly what happened. “I heard from many, many people that want to have that choice,” Frye told the Union-Tribune, “and I think there’s a way to give people that choice, to hopefully put something in place that also protects small businesses by doing an economic impact report and allowing the communities to have a greater oversight of that process.”
The head of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 135, said he was shocked when he heard the rumors that Frye had switching sides. He said union members flooded her office with phone calls in protest. “I think she turned her back on working people,” he said. “I think she turned her back on her constituents, and quite frankly I think she proved that she doesn’t have the guts to stand up to the mayor or stand up for her constituents.”
One of Frye’s constituents was quoted by the newspaper as saying, “These things are environmental abominations and you have no idea what you’re giving up by not overturning the veto,” he said. “They have horrible traffic impacts, horrible noise impacts, horrible air quality impacts. They are energy hogs, and they are not compatible with the neighborhood concept this city wants to have.” The head of the San Diego Neighborhood Market Association, which represents 2,000 small businesses in the city, said her group was disappointed by Frye’s decision to reverse her vote.
Almost three and a half years later, the city council took up the watered down version of a big box ordinance. Once again, the city council passed an ordinance to require certain superstores over 90,000 s.f. to conduct an economic impact statement.
A ‘superstore’ is one which dedicates more than 10% of its floor space to groceries, prescription drugs, and other nontaxable items. It would not affect home improvement stores or warehouse clubs like Sam’s and Costco.
Such economic impact report ordinances have been adopted in many communities across the country, and are a statutory requirement in states like Maine and Vermont. Most impact ordinances do not distinguish between those carrying groceries, and those which do not.
Repeating history, Mayor Jerry Sanders voted on November 29, 2010, to veto the milder economic impact legislation also. “I do not believe it is the City’s role to determine where consumers may shop or to provide a competitive advantage to certain retail businesses,” Sanders said in his veto message.
Councilor Todd Gloria, who is the lead sponsor on the economic impact statement, needed to round up five votes for the measure. The councilor who switched her vote, Donna Frye, is leaving the board. But the new councilors coming on in January would tip the balance against the economic impact ordinance, so Gloria moved ahead to an override vote on the Mayor’s veto. This time around, the City Council voted to override Mayor Sanders, and the new ordinance is on the books.
Before the override vote, Wal-Mart began threatening a public referendum. The retailer took out full page ads in the Union-Tribune newspaper, saying the City Council was just carrying water for the unions, and urging San Diego voters to “be a voice for choice.”
This week, the Union-Tribune reports that Wal-Mart “has launched a furious campaign” to gather at least 31,000 signatures to put the new law to a referendum vote. The giant retailer is buying its place on the ballot by hiring private firms to go out and gather signatures for them — and where else to gather signatures than in front of another Wal-Mart store? One of the companies Wal-Mart hired told the newspaper that they are standing in front of a nearby Wal-Mart gathering signatures for San Diego residents shopping at the Wal-Mart. A company spokesman for Wal-Mart would not say how many signatures had been gathered to date, and the Union-Tribune did not ask how many thousands of dollars Wal-Mart will have to pay for these signatures.
But the cost of gathering these signatures will be trivial compared to the public cost facing San Diego taxpayers if this referendum has to be held. According to the newspaper, because there are no elections slated in 2011, the city will have to hold a special election for the Wal-Mart referendum, and taxpayers will have to cough up as much as $3.4 million to pay for the election Wal-Mart is provoking.
Because San Diego is already facing a major budget deficit, no one in the city wants to waste taxpayer’s dollars, so Wal-Mart’s opponents are calling on the company to pay for the election it wants to hold — since it is the company which stands to gain hundreds of millions in new sales if the big box law is overturned.
The head of the San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council, Lorena Gonzalez, told the Union-Tribune that Wal-Mart such pick up the tab for the special vote — because this is being done at Wal-Mart’s instigation. “While $2.5 million is probably a drop in the bucket for a company at the top of the Fortune 500 list,” Gonzalez said, “it’s sorely needed in a city that is struggling to keep cops on the street, fire stations on alert and libraries open.”
But Wal-Mart is not about to offer to pay for anything — other than the money it has spent to put the issue on the ballot — a small cost to pay. Just by placing the issue on the ballot, Wal-Mart has already forced some city councilors to begin talk of repealing the ordinance. “The best thing for the council to do is save taxpayer money,” said one Councilor who voted against the new law anyway. With two new members coming on in January, the ordinance could be repealed, and Wal-Mart will have paid for a change in public policy.
Once Wal-Mart submits its signatures, the registrars have 30 days to validate the names, and then the city council must either repeal the ordinance within 10 days of petition certification — or put the matter to an election.
One city official, an independent budget analyst, told councilors that the new ordinance could be “overly restrictive” and appear like a ban — — but the fact is that asking for an economic impact statement is a common zoning ordinance requirement in many municipalities across the nation, and is a much milder compromise than a firm cap on the size of retailers — which is even more common than an impact statement. Wal-Mart is complaining that the ordinance will make it too easy for the city to show negative impacts from sprawl.
In his November 29th veto message, Mayor Sanders said, “The Council’s action sends the message that San Diego is not business friendly at a time when job creation is critical and a significant amount of unemployed San Diegan’s need our economy to grow. This is a message San Diego cannot afford to send. Additionally, this action creates a competitive disadvantage for San Diego in the pursuit of sales tax revenue. Superstores will be built to serve our residents, but they will simply locate outside ofthe city’s boundary, causing sales taxes to go to other jurisdictions and increasing traffic as people must travel further in search of lower prices… This ordinance would deprive families of the option to enjoy significant savings when they shop for basic necessities of life, including groceries. It would hit low income families disproportionately hard.”
The Mayor says the city already has the ability “to deny proposed large retail development 50,000 square feet or greater in size if there is evidence of potential blight or other adverse impacts in conflict with adopted policies. The City’s Economic Prosperity Element adopted in March 2008 specifically requires a fiscal impact and market analysis for proposed large retail establishments greater than 100,000 square feet.”
The proposed ordinance actually has nothing to do with shopper choice. What it is really about is scale. In towns and states where such economic impact ordinances exist, they are used as a criteria for granting a special permit for very large projects only.
In Greenfield, Massachusetts, for example, the town adopted in 1993 a Major Development Review ordinance that requires developers to produce a fiscal impact report that shows the project’s impact on public revenues. The town can reject a project that does not balance public revenues with public costs.
Zoning is not used to regulate competition, or to keep any project out. It focuses on the financial impact on the town, and allows a community to say No to a negative financial impact.
Wal-Mart argues that such ordinances make it harder for large stores to win approval, thus denying consumers a shopping choice. But big box retailers under 90,000 s.f. would have no economic impact requirement. 90,000 s.f. is one and a half times the size of a football field — large enough to satisfy anyone’s craving for cheap, Chinese merchandise. So the “choice” is actually Wal-Mart’s: scale your stores at an appropriate size, or do an impact report.
“This ordinance is not a ban, nor is it intended to be one,” Councilor Gloria explained. “Believing that such information and findings would result in a ban demonstrates that even supercenter supporters know of the potentially damaging impacts of such outlets.”
Readers are urged to email District 5 City Councilor Carl DeMaio at [email protected] with this message:
“Dear Councilor DeMaio, The economic impact ordinance that Wal-Mart is so afraid of is not about shopper choice. It’s about Wal-Mart’s choice. They could make their superstores fit San Diego, rather than force San Diego to fit their needs. Wal-Mart could choose to build an 89,000 s.f. superstore. They are proposing superstores at 78,000 s.f. in other parts of the country — why not in San Diego?
Many cities and towns have adopted an economic impact requirements as part of their zoning ordinance, and in states like New York, Vermont and Maine — it’s standard practice everywhere in the state. If a large retail project is going to have, on balance, a negative net revenue impact on a community, that should be grounds to reject a project. Wal-Mart doesn’t want San Diego to talk about the impact of their stores. But that’s a ‘choice’ the city council can make.
If Wal-Mart wants this vote so badly, and has hired firms to gather signatures — then ask them to pay for the election, rather than have you deny voters the chance to respond because the election is too expensive.
Wal-Mart figures it can intimidate you into backing away from the Council’s vote. If you repeal the ordinance at the Council, it will send the message that a rich corporation was able to make public policy in San Diego by just waving some cash around. That’s a precedent of far more consequence to Democracy in San Diego than the big box study ordinance.
In standing up to Wal-Mart, you are demonstrating that public policy in San Diego is not for sale.”


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With legislation pending on whether to ask Denver voters to approve a 5 percent tax on retail marijuana sales, the Denver City Council on Monday will consider setting a host of rules and regulations for the new industry.
The council meets Monday afternoon in a special committee to settle 39 issues to set up the framework of retail marijuana in the city.
The issues to be discussed include:
• Should the city allow only outright conversion of medical-marijuana dispensaries into retail stores and not allow co-location or shared space?
• Should public hearings be required for conversion or co-location of dispensaries into retail stores?
• Should the city set specific hours for the retail shops to operate?
“This is going to be like watching sausage being made,” said Councilman Charlie Brown, who chairs the committee. “This is going to be nitty-gritty, line-by-line going through the issues.”
Brown doubts there will be council consensus on many issues.
Councilman Paul Lopez has been pushing an amendment requiring that marijuana retail stores be at least 2,500 feet from each other and 2,500 feet from a school, child care center or drug and alcohol facility.
The distance rule now for medical-marijuana dispensaries is 1,000 feet.
Brown said he disagrees with Lopez’s distance argument, saying that would be nearly a half-mile between stores and would be unfair to the businesses.
Lopez is putting in four different amendments.
“The purpose it to allow responsible businesses to succeed, and to protect neighborhoods and children from preventing an undue concentration of pot shops,” Lopez said.
The city is also expected to impose a two-year window in which only existing medical-marijuana businesses can open retail shops. That will allow the city to learn as it goes, Brown said.
“We will learn a lot in this transition period,” Brown said. “We will do everything we can to protect the public and have a fair tax system and good regulatory system. At the same time, we want to be firm and fair with the businesses. The whole world is watching.”
The council would have to formally approve the changes by Sept. 23 to make deadlines imposed by Amendment 64 — which legalized marijuana for adults in a November 2012 vote.
On Aug. 19, the council will take up the issue of whether to put a question on the November ballot about taxing sales of retail marijuana. A public hearing on the measure will be Aug. 26, followed by a final vote.
The council wants to set a floating tax rate that could go up to 15 percent but would start at 5 percent this year.
The city has said it will need about $9.4 million a year for regulation, enforcement and health and education.
Colorado voters also will be asked to approve a statewide sales and excise tax on marijuana.
Jeremy P. Meyer: 303-954-1367, firstname.lastname@example.org or twitter.com/jpmeyerdpost


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