Nothing says your business is out of touch like a commercial that claims to represent the heart and soul of a product — but really exposes bad taste and backward thinking. Take this holiday season’s jaw-droppingly bad Peloton ad, in which a very thin woman gleefully receives the stationary bike for Christmas from her husband….
When she isn’t dispensing makeup tips on Instagram, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dispenses sophomoric political maxims, most recently in her defense of “purity tests.” The stink of impurity here is upon Pete Buttigieg of Harvard and McKinsey, who had a fundraiser with some well-off people who drank a few $900 bottles of wine with some Napa…
No matter whether you zoom in or zoom out, from New York to the world, things got much better this decade.
Barneys is so broke it doesn’t have enough money to pay for many of the designer handbags, shoes and other items it’s now selling at bargain-basement prices, The Post has learned. Despite having sold itself to licensing firm Authentic Brands Group for $271 million last month, the posh department store chain is “massively” insolvent, steamed…
Not even the highest-grossing movie of all time could save Hollywood from a down year. Film studios produced numerous blockbusters in 2019, led by Disney’s superhero flick “Avengers: Endgame.” The April release, which capped a 22-film arc from Disney’s Marvel Studios, grossed $2.8 billion worldwide. That put it just ahead of the $2.79 billion generated…
The United States has been clobbering ISIS in the Middle East, but pockets remain, both there and elsewhere — and there’s just no end to the horrors. That was made painfully clear this week when a Nigerian ISIS branch released a video showing its execution of 11 Christians on Christmas Day, 10 of them beheaded….
North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un failed to deliver his “Christmas gift” — a new missile test, perhaps — by Christmas, but he may yet come through. Yet even if he does, it would be wrong to see President Trump’s dealings with him as a failure. Certainly, officials are wise to remain on alert. Kim…
New Yorkers have enough to worry about without having to fear deadly chunks of building façades raining down on them from above. Yet, a Post review this week found that, alas, that’s a legitimate concern. After architect Erica Tishman was fatally struck by debris from a faulty façade this month, a Post review of city…
Too many families in two of America’s most dangerous cities — Baltimore and Chicago — will spend this holiday season in hospitals and funeral homes. Last weekend, the two cities saw more than 50 people shot and eight killed. The violence included two “mass shootings,” defined as a single incident in which more than four…
Many laws have unexpected consequences, but in the case of California Assembly Bill 5, crafted to crack down against the gig economy, the harm to freelance writers could have been foreseen by a blindfolded toddler. The measure was meant to address real concerns about companies like Uber exploiting freelance labor. But dragging writers into its…
The “striking” difference between the Bill Clinton and Donald Trump impeachments, argue MSNBC hosts and others in the media, was not only the willingness of Clinton to “show contrition,” but the willingness of his supporters to acknowledge that the president had done something wrong. Let’s not let liberals rewrite history. In the real world, Clinton,…
Uber may be on the brink of another clash with California lawmakers. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Friday said that he was considering instituting a requirement that would force ride-share services to use electric vehicles. “We have the power to regulate car share,” Garcetti told the Financial Times. “We can mandate, and are looking…
Impeach watch: Pelosi’s Never-Ending Game Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s delay in transmitting the articles of impeachment to the Senate “puts politics ahead of the US Constitution,” declares Peter Roff at Newsweek. Pelosi claims she wants to be assured the Senate will hold a “fair” trial, yet that’s the height of political hypocrisy, given that the House’s…
PHILADELPHIA — The Wawa convenience store chain is facing a wave of lawsuits over a data breach that affected its 850 locations along the East Coast. Wawa Inc. discovered malware on its payment processing servers this month before stopping the breach Dec. 12, the company has said. Officials with the company, based in Wawa, Pennsylvania,…
Michaels named a longtime Walmart executive its new CEO on Friday — just months into the tenure of the craft chain’s current chief executive, Mark Cosby. Ashley Buchanan, Walmart’s chief merchant for US e-commerce, will become Michaels’s president and CEO designate on Jan. 6 before taking over for Cosby in April, the company said. Michaels…
Comcast is reportedly looking to buy ad-fueled streaming company Xumo ahead of its own foray into the streaming wars.
The chief financial officer of Domino’s Pizza Group has died in a snorkeling accident, according to reports Friday. “Our Chief Financial Officer, David Bauernfeind, died in a tragic accident on Thursday, 26th December whilst on holiday with his family,” the UK-based franchise said in a brief statement, without disclosing any further details. Bauernfeind, 51, who…
Drivers are days away from getting their hands on Tesla’s first Chinese-made cars. Elon Musk’s electric automaker plans to deliver the first batch of Model 3 sedans produced at its Shanghai factory on Monday, a Tesla representative said. A lucky group of Tesla employees will receive the first 15 cars on Dec. 30 — less…
British competition regulators launched an in-depth probe Friday into Amazon’s investment in the food delivery firm Deliveroo, raising questions about the deal’s future. Amazon’s purchase of a minority stake in London-based Deliveroo warrants a deeper investigation because the companies did not outline any steps to make sure the deal won’t harm competition, the United Kingdom’s…
Amazon’s “record-breaking” holiday season drove the stock up 4.5% on Thursday and helped lift the Nasdaq composite index above 9,000 for the first time ever. The e-commerce giant led by multibillionaire Jeff Bezos claimed oodles of items were ordered worldwide — leading to a banner holiday sales season that saw a record number of holiday…