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☆ My best friend is the most important person in my life. But I moved away and we're struggling with long distance.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Amanda Smith | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

My best friend and I have been inseparable since we were 13, but I recently decided to travel. We met in high school when we were 13 and have been best friends ever since. We were always in perfect sync, navigating new chapters with our best friend by our side. As my best friend says, it's just about current capacity. I was recently back home for her wedding and met many of my best friend's new friends.

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☆ Analysis: Why Walmart's new bet on fashion brands, home decor threatens specialty chains
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Siddharth Cavale | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

She told Walmart investors its strategy is to "democratize fashion" or convert the company's core, price-conscious shoppers into style-conscious shoppers. It would probably be the rest of the market that should be worried," he said pointing to apparel retailers such as Carhartt. Walmart accounts for 4.6% of the $560.4 billion U.S. apparel market, followed by TJX, Target and Ross at 4.4%, 4.1% and 2.8%, respectively, according to GlobalData. Bankrupt Bed Bath and Beyond was a leader in the home decor and furnishing industry along with furniture chains Ikea and Wayfair. In 2005, Walmart's Metro 7 fashion brand tanked and later designer lines with Max Azria and Norma Kamali also withered.

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☆ A Colorado man says his green home renovation paid off during a winter storm when temperatures dropped below -10 degrees
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-05 | by ( Catherine Boudreau | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Chaz Teplin spent $30,000 to electrify his home and tracked what happened during the winter storm. The winter storm that blanketed much of the US in late December put Chaz Teplin's green-home renovation to the test. Modern heat pumps can keep homes warm from snowy Colorado to chilly Maine and come with a fail-safe known as electric-resistance heating. Despite the name, heat pumps both warm and cool a home by circulating heat from indoors to outdoors and back again. After the winter storm, Teplin said he compared notes with a neighbor who has a gas-powered system.

☆ Electric cars won't overload the power grid — and they could even help modernize our aging infrastructure
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-09 | by ( Tim Levin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Electric cars won't overwhelm the US grid anytime soon, energy and transportation experts say. EVs don't consume a lot of energy now, and it will be decades before electric cars take over fully. On his Fox News show, Carlson bashed electric cars as a "new way to overburden California's already collapsing energy grid." More electric cars plugging in will increase energy demands over time, necessitating a more robust grid and smarter charging habits, they say. Even at 2030 estimates, some 5.6 million electric cars, trucks, and vans would only comprise 4% of peak loads.

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