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Now that I do, I've found I think differently about spending money, today and in the future. I'm determined not to spend over $100 because it would mean dipping into the money I've set aside for emergencies, vacations, my husband's birthday dinner, and so on. You're making our financial decisions without understanding how much money we need, and I'm making our spending decisions without understanding how much money we have." Upper-middle-class people don't need to be thrifty with their kids' back-to-school shopping." I don't need a $40 basket tote for the beach if we can't afford to take a vacation to the beach this year.

☆ Walmart bans single-use bags in more stores
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

New York CNN —Walmart will eliminate single-use paper and plastic carryout bags at the register from stores in New York, Connecticut and Colorado this month. The company previously stopped giving out single-use plastic bags in New York and Connecticut and in some areas in Colorado. Plastic-bag bans reduce the number of these bags in stores and encourage customers to bring reusable bags or pay a small fee for paper bags. In New Jersey, a ban on single-use plastic and paper bags has meant grocery delivery services have switched to heavy-duty bags. Reusable bags — cloth totes or thicker, more durable plastic bags — aren’t a perfect solution, either, unless they are actually reused.

☆ I'm an Amazon delivery driver. It's a great workout, but I'm ready for the holidays to be over.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Jen Glantz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

I'm honestly ready for the holiday season to be overIt's more exhausting than I imagined. One of the biggest changes about working this job during the holiday season is the influx of packages. Plus, some customers are even more appreciative of us during the holiday season, and they'll leave snacks or drinks at the front door. At the end of a day, my body's a messWhen my work day ends, I'm ready for a nap. Once the holiday season ends, I'll continue working this job for at least another year, and perhaps even another holiday season.

☆ Fashion’s Weirdest Year? Why 2022 Saw Paint Cans as Handbags, and Worse
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Jacob Gallagher | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Thom Browne’s $3,000 dachshund-shaped bag is one part of fashion’s strange year. In fashion, it was a year of bags shaped like paint cans, pigeons and potato-chip wrappers. It was a year of R-rated skirts that barely covered your gluteus maximus; of shirts splayed, boorishly, from cuff to collar with fast-food logos. A year of shoes made from repurposed sex toys and sagging totes made from jeans.

☆ See the spiderlike robots built to help pack your e-commerce orders and ease the labor shortage
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The system can fulfill e-commerce and online grocery orders with a fraction of the standard staff. Inventory came in weekly, workers loaded products into the system, and the robots brought out the right items for packing and shipping e-commerce orders the moment they came in. "They wanted to use the Fabric technology on their own real estate, with their own operations teams, to gain the efficiencies that the technology can unlock for them," Morav said. Once the Fabric robots are loaded with plastic totes full of product — up to 500,000 products at once — robots move the totes into the metal structure, where they stay until needed. With the robots' help, a handful of workers can pick out and pack thousands of items a day.

☆ Amazon unveiled a new warehouse robot that can identify and pick 65% of the items it sells. 'This will take my job,' one warehouse worker said.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The robot's capabilities have sparked fears among some Amazon workers that Sparrow could leave them without work. Sparrow "will take my job," one Amazon warehouse worker said, after reading Amazon's description of the robot. "Everyone knows that Amazon wants to replace human labor with robots," said Ryan Brown, an Amazon worker and the president of the union Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity & Empowerment. One of Amazon's robot arms is installed at Brown's facility, he said, but "interestingly enough, the robot that we have is always down." "These robots collapse," agreed Brett Daniels, an Amazon worker and Amazon Labor Union organizer.

☆ I'm an Amazon warehouse worker. When I'm tired and in pain from standing all day on Prime Day, I remind myself the money's good.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Taayoo Murray | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A Staten Island Amazon employee shares how "stowers" prepare for Amazon Prime Day in the warehouse. Being a warehouse worker close to Prime Day is crazy. About a week before Prime Day, we make sure that we start the shift with empty pods. It's the same schedule, leading up to Prime Day, just way more work and intensity. You have more pressure because Prime Day orders are usually "reactive" — or time sensitive — orders.

☆ Vera Bradley's founders Pat and Barb look back on the last 40 years as they embark into the metaverse
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Chloe Melas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

It was 1982 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Patricia R. Miller was stopping by to introduce herself to new neighbor Barbara Bradley Baekgaard. “The Kappa [Kappa Gamma women’s sorority] house at Michigan State, they kind of brag that they started the company,” Baekgaard said. “We went through all kinds of names, but Barb’s mother’s name was Vera Bradley. Over the next several decades Vera Bradley expanded to bedding, tech and home accessories. Even as the women look back at 40 years of Vera Bradley, the brand is looking ahead and pushing the boundaries of its duffel-bag roots.

☆ What it's like working for lawmakers whose golden years are clouded by power struggles, rumors of senility, and constant second-guessing
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-13 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +25 min

Doug Heye, a Republican strategist, told Insider that some political maneuvering is more tactical. Emanuel, now the US's ambassador to Japan, didn't refute that the exchange took place but told Insider he didn't remember it. It serves the institution," the former GOP aide told Insider, adding that seasoned dealmakers are preferable to partisan bomb-throwers "with some agenda that they're driving." Paul Morigi/Getty ImagesWhite, now the executive director of the Mississippi Department of Transportation, told Insider his boss always had the final word. 'Preserving their dignity'Convincing career lawmakers to hang it up before they tarnish their respective legacies is tricky business, a veteran GOP leadership aide told Insider.

☆ A 29-year-old videographer gets paid to travel the world with the wealthy elite, documenting their wild adventures so they don't have to. Here's what it's like.
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-26 | by ( Mark Ellwood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Ian Agrimis is the founder of photography and video company Capture Unlimited. He has to remain unnoticed and does activities like cliff jumping before clients do to get the shot. He was there for two years, he told Insider, before he and his entire team were laid off. He keeps a tight team on-site, he said, often pairing up with a photographer while he focuses on video. When someone does occasionally ask for a still or a shorter video, he added, it will only be posted on a private Instagram account.

The Longitude and Latitude Tote Bags ($245) come in five colors: Black, Navy, Pine, Buff, and Ruby. Recently, Away debuted two new leather tote bags, the Longitude Tote Bag and the Latitude Tote Bag, to complement its luggage. The vertical Longitude Tote can hold up to a 13-inch laptop, and the horizontal Latitude Tote can hold up to a 15-inch laptop. We tested out Away's newest leather tote bags, using them as our work bags and while traveling. We tried Away's $245 tote bags.

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