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☆ Homesick Americans living in the UK should head to Costco for snacks
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Costco sells some American brands and products that aren't commonly available in the UK. Candy brands I saw at Costco included Red Vines licorice, Mike and Ike candy, and Welch's Fruit Snacks. A five-pack of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese Dinner costs £11.19 (around $2.75 per box) on the UK website, whereas on its US website, Costco charges $18.99 for 18 boxes of around the same weight – or just over $1 per box. AdvertisementAdvertisementBrits can still get their tea fixThere were, however, plenty of British products on sale, showing how it had adapted its assortment to UK shoppers. Grace Dean/Insider; Will Martin/InsiderLike many supermarkets in the UK, Costco was keen to point out the local origins of some of its own-brand Kirkland Signature produce as consumers pay more attention to food miles and supporting domestic agriculture.

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☆ Opinion: The piercing sadness of a child’s birthday party in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Opinion Nadia Abushaban | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Gaza CNN —Have you ever sang “Happy Birthday” to a child not knowing if it would be his last? Nadia AbuShaban Courtesy Nadia AbuShabanOn October 29, my family gathered in a friend’s home in Khan Younis, Gaza, to wish my nephew, Hashem, a happy 12th birthday. The world must understand that the children of Gaza are just like theirs. Nadia AbuShabanThe world must understand that the children of Gaza are just like theirs. Hashem will soon be old enough to understand the gravity of the situation in Gaza and the limitations it will place on his life.

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This one won an extended Game 1 of the World Series for the Texas Rangers. If I did that, I’d be screaming, too,” Texas second baseman Marcus Semien said. “It's going to be a really good series,” García said. He became the first position player in MLB history to appear in a World Series 15 years after first playing in the Fall Classic. He also became the fourth player with a World Series hit at both age 23 or younger AND 38 or older.

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Keep reading to see where to watch the Five Nights at Freddy's movie online. Five Nights at Freddy's is best described as the lifelike reimagination of your inner child's worst Chuck E. Cheese nightmare. Where to watch Five Nights at Freddy's onlineFive Nights at Freddy's is streaming through the Peacock app in the United States. How to watch Five Nights at Freddy's with a VPNSign up for a VPN if you don't have one. Watch Five Nights at Freddy's.

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☆ The CEO of 1-800-Flowers says he got the best business advice from JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

1-800-Flowers CEO and cofounder Jim McCann says he got the best piece of business advice from JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe boss of flower and gifts company 1-800-Flowers said JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon gave him the best business advice — that he didn't need his employees' buy-in while making decisions. "Jim, you spend way too much of your time evangelizing," Dimon told McCann, per the latter's retelling. They don't all need to get it," Dimon told McCann. Dimon told McCann his team only needed to have faith that McCann understood the value of his product.

Persons: Jim McCann, Jamie Dimon, Dimon, McCann, —, Flowers, JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon, Fortune's Ruth Umoh, Jim, Chris McCann, Jim's, McCann's, David Organizations: Service, CBS, Factory Locations: New York, York, Queens

☆ A movie theater staffer describes what it was like to work Taylor Swift's Eras Tour film premiere, which was so loud it blew out 2 amps
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Eras Tour film opened last weekend in movie theaters around the world. Shane, a theater worker, said crowds were well-behaved but the movie was so loud it blew out two amps. Swift's Eras Tour film is already record-smashing, bringing in between $95 and $97 million and marking the biggest-ever opening of a concert film — and is now in the running to potentially have the strongest-ever October debut. After an Eras Tour screening, "you don't really find anything too awful." Broadly, he wants Eras Tour theatergoers to know that even if they've purchased tickets online, they'll still need to be scanned.

Persons: Shane, —, Taylor Swift, they've Organizations: Service Locations: Pacific Northwest

☆ Astronomers detect mysterious 8 billion-year-old energetic burst
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

A fast radio burst, or FRB, is a pulse of radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation. It lasts a small fraction of a second but outshines most other sources of radio waves in the universe. Radio waves have the longest wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum. "The radio waves in FRBs are similar to those used in microwave ovens. Fast radio bursts were discovered in 2007.

Persons: Ryan Shannon, Stuart Ryder, Shannon, Will Dunham, Daniel Wallis Organizations: ESO, REUTERS Acquire, Rights, Australian SKA Pathfinder, European Southern, Swinburne University of Technology, Macquarie University, Thomson Locations: Handout, Western Australia, European, Chile, Australia

On the phone was 28-year-old Jimmy Zhong, a local party boy and Georgia alum who frequented Athens' drinking establishments. Robin Martinelli, Martinelli Investigations owner and private investigator. Martinelli said Zhong appeared resistant to her theories, especially when they began to focus on his circle of friends. Source: Zhong's social media profileHis parties were epic. Source: Zhong's social media profile

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☆ Taylor Swift's Eras tour movie brought in about $96 million at the box office
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Danielle Wiener-Bronner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

In its opening weekend, the pop singer’s concert film, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” raked in between $95 and $97 million in the box office in the United States and Canada, movie theater chain AMC said Sunday. “I thought I had seen everything with the Barbenheimer phenomenon,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore, which tracks box office numbers. Teenagers trade bracelets while waiting for the beginning of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour concert movie in a cinema in Mexico City, Mexico October 13, 2023. Discovery, and “Oppenheimer.” Together, the two hits brought in nearly $2.4 billion in global box office sales this year, according to tracking site Box Office Mojo. Barbenheimer and Swift’s concert film “puts movie theaters at the epicenter of the culture as the hub of cultural influence,” said Dergarabedian.

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☆ Why is movie candy sold in boxes?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( Danielle Wiener-Bronner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

That last part feels wrong, probably, because at the movies, candy comes in a box. Movie theaters are not the only place to buy boxed candy — you can get boxes of chocolate or candy at some drug stores or online — but even then they’re called theater box candy, a label that undeniably links the package with the movies. A spokesperson for Mars Wrigley, maker of M&M’s and Skittles, made a similar point, noting that candy sold in “boxes in movie theaters is easier to pour and share, compared to traditional packaging, and boxes offer the ability to re-close.” That means less spilling in between seats. The principle is the same for movie theater candy. “Theater boxes take their name from being available in movie theaters or other retail establishments that might have shelving,” he said.

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☆ Taylor Swift concert film draws $2.8 million from last-minute previews as theaters prepare for big opening weekend
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Taylor Swift fans had just eight hours to buy tickets for last-minute Thursday night previews of her Eras Tour concert film. Box office analysts don't see the small Thursday night haul as any indication of the potential success of Swift's film. Expectations are that Swift could tally between $40 million and $60 million on Friday, on her way to a an opening weekend draw of as much as $150 million. Swift's film is on pace to open in around 3,850 theaters, making it the widest domestic release of a concert film. AMC Entertainment, which is distributing the film, reported last week that presales for its theaters had already exceeded $100 million for the full run of Swift's film.

Persons: Taylor Swift, weren't, Paul Dergarabedian, Swift, Shawn Robbins, Miley Cyrus, Michael Jackson's Organizations: AMC, Marvel, Star Wars, AMC Entertainment Locations: Los Angeles , California

☆ Here are Friday's biggest analyst calls: Nvidia, Tesla, Dollar General, Amazon, Meta, SolarEdge & more
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Michael Bloom | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

HSBC initiates American Express as buy HSBC said it sees healthy earnings growth for American Express . Mizuho reiterates Meta as buy Mizuho said it's standing by its buy rating heading into earnings later this month. Bernstein reiterates Tesla as underperform Bernstein concluded in an analysis of Tesla that the company is more of an automaker than a tech company. Barclays upgrades Varonis Systems to overweight from equal weight Barclays said it sees numerous positive catalysts ahead for the software company. Northland upgrades SolarEdge to outperform from market perform Northland said investors should buy the dip in shares of SolarEdge .

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☆ Beyoncé showing up for Taylor Swift’s movie premiere was a ‘fairytale’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Forget about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, she and Beyoncé are the true power pair of the year. On Wednesday night it was the era of two queens when Beyoncé attended the premiere for Swift’s “Eras Tour” concert film in Los Angeles. First up is Swift’s, which “due to unprecedented demand” opened with early access shows on Thursday and will have additional showings over the weekend. Queen Bey, who recently wrapped her “Renaissance Tour” in Kansas City, has announced that her “Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé” will hit theaters on December 1. Swift wrote in the caption, “I’m so glad I’ll never know what my life would’ve been like without @beyonce’s influence.”“The way she’s taught me and every artist out here to break rules and defy industry norms,” Swift wrote.

Persons: Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, Beyoncé, Queen Bey, Beyoncé ”, Swift, “, I’ll, would’ve, ”, she’s, ” Swift, She’s Organizations: CNN Locations: Los Angeles, Kansas City

☆ Taylor Swift attends ‘Eras Tour’ concert movie premiere in Los Angeles
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Taylor Swift filled a “blank space” on the red carpet of the “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour Concert Film” premiere in Los Angeles on Wednesday. She posed for photos with her “Eras Tour” dancers and supporters along the carpet. Mario Anzuoni/ReutersThe premiere was held at The Grove, an upscale shopping complex that includes a multi-screen AMC movie theater. Swift’s concert movie comes on the heels of a monster run of her “Eras Tour,” which hit over 20 cities and is expected to gross over $1 billion. Tickets for the newly announced bonus screenings of “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour Concert Film” will be available by 10am in the ticketholder’s timezone on Thursday.

Persons: CNN — Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, ” Swift, Mario Anzuoni, Sam Wrench, ”, Chris Pizzello, “ Taylor Swift Organizations: CNN, AMC, Regal Locations: Los Angeles, Canada, The Grove, Argentina

☆ My Uber rating was higher than my GPA. I landed my first job after tweeting that at Uber.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Cherylyn Wee is a 32-year-old sales director who landed her first job after tweeting at Uber. That's when I tweeted at Uber, "My @uber rating is higher than my GPA. And my Uber rating was 4.9 out of 5. And that's how a tweet helped me land my first job, as a marketing coordinator at Uber Singapore. AdvertisementAdvertisementBe intentional with what you write onlineWee on her last day at the Uber Singapore office in 2018, which was also the day Uber exited the country.

Persons: Wee, tweeting, —, Cherylyn Wee, Uber, Cherylyn, I've Organizations: Service, Uber, Uber Singapore, Twitter Locations: Singapore, Uber Singapore

☆ Tech Industry Made Americans Lonelier, Now It Has to Help Connect Us
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( David Risher | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

A company that prioritizes product-market fit can build a great, customer-focused business. The venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has said that for startups, product-market fit is "the only thing that matters." I appreciate Marc's wisdom: Great product-market fit produces a sugar high. And that goal is well aligned with the broader social goal of making people less lonely. Over time, it became apparent that this was not a great social fit.

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☆ Have tickets to the Taylor Swift movie this weekend? Get ready for a dance party
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Taylor Swift performs onstage for the opening night of her The Eras Tour at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on March 17, 2023. Starting Friday, Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour film arrives in theaters, and with it comes a certain expectation of exuberance from those in attendance. Since Swift announced the theatrical release of her The Eras Tour, ticket sales have soared. Beyonce's film will see base tickets set at $22 a piece. "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour" will play in theaters during the weekends through Nov. 5.

Persons: Taylor Swift, Taylor, it's, let's, Swift, presales, It's Organizations: Farm, AMC Entertainment, AMC Locations: Glendale , Arizona

☆ Conagra Brands beats quarterly profit estimate on price hikes
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] Slim Jim products, owned by Conagra Brands, are seen for sale in a store in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 15, 2021. Shares of the Chicago-based packaged food maker fell 1.4% to $26.15 premarket on Thursday as Conagra missed quarterly sales estimates and also maintained tepid targets for annual sales and profit. Peer General Mills (GIS.N) in September also narrowly topped profit estimates on higher prices, but the Cheerios cereal maker's volumes took a hit as consumers turned cautious. Campbell Soup (CPB.N) forecast an upbeat annual profit as the company bets on easing cost pressures. Conagra reported first-quarter net sales of $2.90 billion, while analysts on average expected $2.95 billion, according to LSEG data.

Persons: Slim Jim, Andrew Kelly, Slim, Conagra, Mills, Campbell, Granth, Sherry Jacob, Phillips Organizations: Conagra Brands, REUTERS, Conagra, Thomson Locations: Manhattan , New York, U.S, Chicago, Bengaluru

☆ Bill Gates says America has a math problem. Here are his three suggestions to help kids learn to love the subject like he does.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Bill Gates wrote a blog post suggesting three ways to improve math education. AdvertisementAdvertisementHe believes that math skills are a "powerful indicator" of future success. Gates wrote. The new approach to math seems to be working at Chula Vista: Math proficiency rates have increased 18% over the past three years at the school, Gates wrote. College grads who land high-earning jobs often major in fields that require strong math skills.

Persons: Bill Gates, —, Gates, hasn't, Amilcar Fernandez —, Fernandez, Mr, there's, Melinda — Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Chula Vista Middle, Networks, School, Gates Foundation, Chula Vista —, College grads, New York Federal Reserve Locations: Chula, Southern California, Chula Vista

☆ The next United Nations Secretary General? This Caribbean climate leader makes diplomats 'jump' with excitement
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Stephanie Fillion | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

United Nations CNN —Asked last week if she will run to become the United Nations’ next Secretary General, Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados gave a thumbs up, smiled, and walked away. Fighting for a woman at the helmThe UN’s next Secretary General would take office in January 2027. “There’s always lots of men that want to run,” said Ben Donaldson, head of campaigns at the United Nations Association of the United Kingdom. “It’s not so much about talking about a Julie or Anne, or Mary, it is more about talking about a Madame Secretary General as a general proposition, and then making sure that we pave the way to get there,” she said. “I believe that men should run next time around as I believe women should run in their numbers,” he said.

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☆ What happens if you swallow gum — when it’s harmless and when you should worry
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Sadie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“It’s an old wives’ tale,” said Simon Travis, professor of clinical gastroenterology at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. “If you swallow chewing gum, it’ll go through the stomach, and go through into the intestine, and pass out unchanged at the other end,” Travis said. “There are cases of chewing gum lodging in the intestines of infants and even children if they’ve swallowed a lot, and then it causes an obstruction. “Chicle is a natural latex that comes from something called the Chico sapote tree, or sapodilla tree,” Mathews explained. When to worry about swallowing gumUnless you are in pain or have swallowed a lot of gum, Travis and Carroll said you don’t need to go to the doctor if you accidentally swallow a piece whole.

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☆ The meme stock mania is now a movie. Here's what has happened to GameStop and AMC
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Jesse Pound | In Jesse-Pound | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

There's Anthony Ramos' Marcus, a GameStop cashier, being lectured by his parents that this stock trading thing isn't real. Reddit versus Wall StreetMany social media traders discussed the meme stock moment in David vs Goliath terms — the retail traders versus the hedge funds. Several brokerages limited trading in meme stocks at the height of the meme stock mania. In the second quarter of 2019, before the meme stock mania began, the company generated about $1.3 billion in net sales. The AMC stock sales have diluted the holdings of individual shareholders, and the market cap of AMC is still down more than 50% from its peak.

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☆ Taylor Swift could change the movie theater industry with her Eras Tour concert film — here's how
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Despite placing her previous documentaries and concert films on streaming services in the past, the iconic pop star opted to deliver her Eras Tour film directly to cinemagoers this October. Of course, the theater company will generate significantly more than that in concession sales, perhaps the real upside to Swift's film release. "Taylor Swift, being a cultural powerhouse and shaper of new business models, may have a hand in bringing back the old-school style concert film." Swift's concert film seems destined to overtake the current record holder for a theatrical concert film. Miley Cyrus' "Best of Both Worlds" concert film tallied $31.1 million during its opening weekend back in 2008, appearing in around 680 locations.

Persons: Taylor Swift, Shawn Robbins, Swift, Oppenheimer, They're, Cinemark —, It's, Robbins, Beyonce, Adele, Mario, Michael O'Leary, Paul Dergarabedian, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Organizations: T, Fort Worth Star, Tribune, Service, Getty, BoxOffice.com, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television, Radio Artists, National Football League, Sony, Disney, Warner Bros, AMC, Universal, Swift, Mario Bros, National Association of Theatre Locations: Arlington , Texas, Cincinnati , Ohio

☆ I bought a fixer-upper for a fraction of what I could afford. Now we have new floors and ceilings, and I'm thrilled to pay just $770 a month.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Sarah Sharkey | Avril Ayers | Read More | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

My husband and I bought a house in 2020, and we decided to stick to a mortgage payment of $700. Here's how we decided on how large of a mortgage payment we could afford. Why we kept our numbers conservativeBased on the 28% rule, our income could have supported a much larger mortgage payment. In my opinion, opting for a smaller mortgage payment than we could technically afford opened up more room for financial flexibility. Since closing three years ago, our mortgage payment has grown to around $770 per month.

Persons: we've, you'll, that's, homeownership Organizations: Service Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ Watching ‘Barbie’ and Thinking About Death
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Amanda Taub | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I really expected to love “Barbie.” As someone with proudly lowbrow taste in movies, I normally adore a big summer popcorn blockbuster, and every millennial woman I knew seemed to consider it a pop-nostalgia masterpiece. Instead, I left unsettled and frustrated: Something about the story seemed profoundly wrong to me, but I couldn’t articulate what it was. The play is set in a fictional totalitarian regime in which plays and literature are subject to strict censorship. That’s not because the government doesn’t respect the theater, a high-ranking censor named Mr. Celik explains to Adem, a young would-be playwright. Rather, it’s because it knows the power of stories to shape how people see the world, and to help them imagine how to change it.

Persons: “ Barbie, Sam Holcroft, Celik, Adem, Rather Organizations: Almeida Theater Locations: London

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