As vaccination rates rise, some are feeling more comfortable about resuming their prior routines — and major retailers are returning aspects of the pre-pandemic shopping experience.
Unvaccinated shoppers, however, are are asked to keep wearing masks in many stores. Similar rules apply for store employees.
Costco and Sam's Club are bringing back free food samples, albeit with some pandemic-induced changes: Both warehouse chains announced that they're installing Plexiglas at sample stations, handing out individually wrapped samples and making them in smaller batches.
PUC URGES COMPARISON SHOPPING AS ELECTRICITY RATES RISE | WCCS AM1160 & 101.1FM
The state Public Utility Commission has warned residential electricity consumers to check their bills, as the quarterly rate adjustments that took effect on June 1 st will start showing up soon in mailboxes across the commonwealth. All of the state's electricity generators have raised their rates for the summer, including Penelec, where the increase is the highest in the state, 30 percent, from 4.981 cents per kilowatt hour to 6.462 cents.
The PUC says the electricity generation rates are not under its control, and it encourages comparison shopping and more closely monitored energy usage during the air conditioning season.
Shooting investigation unfolds at Sarasota shopping center - NBC2 News
Woman stabbed at Palladium in the Rim shopping center | kens5.com
Around 11 p.m., police responded to the Palladium in the Rim shopping center after a woman got stabbed.
Police said the woman was walking down the hallway between theaters when a man approached her and attacked her with a sharp object and stabbing her several times.
Powell: Sweet pickings at Meg's Sweet Pickins at Great Eastern shopping center | The Blade
As June 15 coronavirus reopening nears, shopping malls are bracing for waves of shoppers –
For nearly a year, Los Angeles County’s shopping malls resembled ghost towns amid lockdowns, restrictions and widespread stay-at-home orders. But with improving vaccination rates, falling virus numbers and easing restrictions visitors have been flocking back to retail centers.
As California is moving ahead to fully reopening its economy on June 15, malls are under pressure to adapt to high foot traffic and welcome more visitors.
"I’m not sure if more people will start shopping simply because June 15 rolls around," said Steven Sayers, senior general manager at Glendale Galleria. "But we have been seeing a continued upswing in demand for the last several months. More people have been coming out shopping."
KooShopper has set up a new cross-border shopping model | Business Wire
In order to solve this problem, a UK company named Smart Shopping Assets Management Limited has developed an intelligent Shopping system, namely KooShopper. This is an intelligent order matching project of cross-border e-commerce that integrates big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things and artificial intelligence technology. It can help shoppers find the products they need very accurately.
In fact, KooShopper is an e-commerce resource-sharing platform. While the main function is to send orders of merchants to all order distributors in KooShopper according to the information symmetry theory through the high-tech technology developed by SSAML. Beside, the system automatically evaluates and matches orders for members with order allocation rights in KooShopper platform.
Shopping is back in style, more or less, in the Oklahoma City area
In case you're missing it, and you very well could be, stores are busy again as shoppers make up for lost coronavirus time.
I went to an office supply store to buy some Bluetooth earbuds to use as an inexpensive mic for my iPhone, which is too far from the pulpit to work well. While I was there, I started shopping for a new laptop computer.
Retail is rockin'. Store landlords are breathing easier. NAI Sullivan Group's retail property report for the first quarter tells the tale.
Car Crash Causes Fire At Piedmont Pointe Shopping Plaza, Several Businesses Destroyed – CBS
"It's such a tragedy, just because someone's speeding. Just slow down,” said Nicole Thompson, who saw the smoke from her apartment across the street. "The alarms in my building started going off, so we had to evacuate. Simpson says she was a customer at Preferred Chiropractic at the shopping center. “They're wonderful people, and they're going to be out of business now for two months,” she said.
Crews started the cleanup process by late afternoon. The property owner at Riverwood Properties, which owns the shopping center, told CW69 there is at least $2 million in damage, but they plan to rebuild. She said the biggest challenge will be waiting for the city's permitting process to play out.
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