by Admin | Jul 27, 2020 | Companies, News
Walmart has a history of letting Black Friday creep further and further back over Thanksgiving Day to get a leg up on their competition. Last year in 2019, the company threw open store doors to sale-seeking customers at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. The doorbuster sale...
by Admin | Jul 20, 2020 | News
The Shakespeare Theatre Company, based in Washington, D.C., is one of the most iconic theatre companies in the United States, despite its small size. With only 116 permanent staff and a rotating cast of actors and other talent, The STC is rich with awards, history,...
by Admin | Jul 13, 2020 | News, Technology
“If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer, you’re the product being sold.” The quote gets attributed to a few dozen people in a variety of paraphrases, but the content is the same: free services have to get their money from somewhere, and they usually get...
by Admin | Jul 5, 2020 | Companies, News
Another business giant has fallen under the burden of the pandemic crisis in the United States. GNC, the vitamin and supplement company, announced in late May that it has filed for bankruptcy and that they plan to close up to a quarter of their 5,800 stores while they...
by Admin | Jun 26, 2020 | Companies, News
Even in the best of times, Chuck E. Cheese dd not inspire thoughts of cleanliness and a hygienic atmosphere. The chain of child-friendly restaurant-slash-activity centers has always had the reputation of being a place for children’s birthday parties, where you eat...
by Admin | Jun 19, 2020 | Companies, News
Before all the chaos of COVID-19, black-owned businesses were already in a precarious position. According to a study from the Federal Reserve, 58 percent of black-owned businesses in the United States were in financial distress as of the end of 2019. Distress was...
by Admin | Jun 12, 2020 | Companies, News, Technology
Graduation is a landmark event in the lives of most people, and for generations, it has been a shared one. Most Americans have had the same experience, walking across a stage set up in their school gym or on the sports field, shaking the hands of their principal and...
by Admin | Jun 5, 2020 | Companies, News
AMC Theatres is the world’s largest cinema chain, with its own skyscraping headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri, and over 11,000 screens in 1,006 theaters worldwide. The company was founded in 1920, by ringmaster brothers Maurice, Edward, and Barney Dubinsky, who...
by Admin | May 29, 2020 | Companies, News
Mastercard Inc. employs almost 20,000 people globally, thousands of them concentrated in its Westchester, New York, headquarters, a modern office space with cafeterias, game rooms, and gathering spaces. Before COVID-19, these were amenities meant to draw in talent and...
by Admin | May 22, 2020 | News
“The industry will not be able to get out of this challenge unless there’s government assistance.” This stark statement comes from Mike McNaney, the president of the National Airlines Council of Canada (NACC), a lobbying group for the Canadian airline industry,...
