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The holiday shopping season keeps creeping earlier on the calendar, and that head start can come at the expense of the final stretch.After weeks of crowds, big-box stores in the week before Christmas can be left with picked-over shelves. This year, as part of CEO Michael Fiddelke’s turnaround effort, Target is shifting from a marathon mentality to a series of sprints intended to help the retailer finish strong.Target’s US stores will kick off the holiday season with a major reset in the first week of November, followed by another overhaul in the first week of December after Black Friday.But the…

Buying a screwdriver at Home Depot?Well, you and your next-door neighbor should be paying the same price for the same product on the same day.Angie Brown, the home improvement retailer’s executive vice president and chief information officer, told Business Insider that it’s exploring a larger rollout of its electronic shelf labels, or ESLs — the small digital placards that large retailers have been using to replace paper price tags.When asked if those wireless-updatable tags could introduce dynamic pricing, Brown responded, “Absolutely not.”Instead, The Home Depot uses those tags to accurately inform customers when their store expects the next delivery of…

This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Jonathan Yang, who was laid off from Meta in late 2024 after more than three years on the office design team. The 43-year-old shares how his job, cosmetic procedures, and weight loss shaped his confidence. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity.At Meta, I worked really hard. I had golden handcuffs. I did not prioritize my health. You go to Meta, and they call it the “Facebook 15.” Well, it was probably more than 15 pounds because of all the food that’s available and all the stress. So,…

There was a stretch of time in recent history when Victoria’s Secret was deeply unloved by consumers and investors alike.Scarlett Frazer, a 26-year-old fashion influencer who spends thousands at the store annually, is among the diehards who say they never gave up on VS amid its slog in the 2010s. But even she acknowledges the rough patch.Caught in the cultural shifts of that decade that made the brand seem out of touch and its marketing in bad taste, and beset by competition, the business struggled.Fast-forward to the present, and the baby pink stripes are back. Victoria’s Secret, once known for…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brian Rooney, the 60-year-old founder of Chapter7Reset.com, who lives in Conroe, Texas. He lost his wife in 2013. The essay has been edited for length and clarity, and the details verified.When you’re grieving, you’re not thinking about how to move a business forward, capture new market share, or adapt to new technologies. You’re not thinking straight because you’re overwhelmed by a cloud of loss, pain, and sorrow. Some days, you’re just trying to get through morning to night.In 2013, I lost my wife, my partner, and my life. I still had…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Danielle Fewings, a 40-year-old entrepreneur from New York City. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I started my career in digital marketing and ran my own agency from 2020 until 2025, when I sold it. I’m now the founder of Get Clear Beauty, an aesthetic treatment marketplace, which I started in 2026.I’ve always felt like there was something missing from my appearance, as if someone much more confident was buried beneath it all. I got my first procedure done in 2013 and have had many since.I don’t regret any…

Millennials had Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works. Gen Z has Sol de Janeiro.The body, hair, and fragrance brand, founded in 2015, has become a major player in the industry. A 2025 fiscal year report from L’Occitane Group, Sol de Janeiro’s parent company, said the brand accounted for 31.6% of the group’s sales. The report also described Sol de Janeiro as Sephora North America’s No. 1 beauty brand and the No. 1 fragrance brand on Amazon US at the time.Two Sol de Janeiro products have led that charge. First, millennials embraced the $48 Brazilian Bum Bum Cream after it…

Before heading out to the bar on our final day of junior year at the University of Maryland, I sat in my empty college apartment with my friends, laughing over a dumb sitcom while scrolling on our phones.Half of our stuff was in boxes as we were preparing to move into our very own house for the next school year. We fantasized about the parties we would throw and the decorating we would do.But then, two months later, everything was turned upside down when one friend backed out and moved to Wisconsin to pursue a new career path. We were…

GOODYEAR, Ariz. — An Airbus A320neo, one of the world’s most popular planes, rolled off the Mobile, Alabama, factory line in July 2022, painted bright yellow for its next destination: Spirit Airlines. It was built to fly for decades. But this May, less than four years later, it was stripped for parts worth millions and crushed, the steel teeth of an excavator tearing through its fuselage at a facility on the outskirts of Phoenix. More aircraft are getting dismantled years, if not decades, earlier than expected, industry executives told CNBC. It is the result of a shortage of parts, none…

The AI boom has shades of the dot-com bubble, but fears of an imminent crash and mass unemployment are overblown, a veteran tech investor says.At the turn of this century, there was an explosion in dot-com startups being formed, and a huge infrastructure buildout with telecoms “aggressively” spending on wired and wireless networks, Paul Wick told Business Insider in an interview this week.The chief investor of Seligman Investments — a group within Columbia Threadneedle Investments that manages over $40 billion of assets and comprises a hedge fund, a mutual fund, and a venture capital arm — said there were clear…