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Fire all over the American market! The TOP10 best-selling toys list is here
The Specialty Toy Retail Association (ASTRA) recently held its market Summit in Long Beach, California, attended by some of the biggest names in the toy industry. NPD Group released a new set of market data for the US toy industry at the conference. Data show that from January to April 2022, the ...Read more -
Who will benefit from amazon’s new feature?
On June 10, Amazon launched a new shopping feature called “Virtual try-on for Shoes.” The feature will allow consumers to use their phone’s camera to see how the foot looks when choosing a shoe style. As a pilot, the feature is currently only available to consumers in the US and...Read more -
22, 000 Dockworkers strike in US? The biggest port closure crisis since the outbreak!
The INTERNATIONAL Longshoremen's Union (ILWU), which represents workers in the United States and Spain, has called for the first time for a suspension of the talks, Reuters reported. 120,000 empty boxes filling the east Coast! West coa...Read more -
Coronavirus Cases Are Now Rising In Almost Every State In The US
On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump has taken to calling COVID-19 a “fake news media conspiracy.” But the numbers don’t lie: Daily new cases are running at record levels and climbing fast. We’re well into a third wave of hospitalizations, and there are worrying signs that deaths may be ...Read more -
Amazon to add another 100k seasonal positions, preparing for holidays in midst of pandemic
Amazon says it will hire another 100,000 seasonal workers this year, bolstering its fulfilment and distribution operations for a holiday season like no other, as a new wave of COVID-19 cases surges across the country. That’s half as many seasonal positions as the company created for the 2019 hol...Read more -
UPS sharply increases fuel surcharges, increasing customer costs.
Starting April 11, customers of UPS’s U.S. land service will pay a 16.75 percent fuel surcharge, which will be applied to the base rate of each shipment as well as most additional services known as surcharges. That was up from 15.25 percent the previous week. UPS’s domestic airlift su...Read more
