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This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.Top 5 Shopping Tips for Amazon Prime DayFeeling guilty about all those blue-and-white plastic Amazon bags piling up around the house? Fear not — they can be recycled! At least, that’s what the packaging says.For years now, Amazon’s plastic bags, bubble-lined mailers, and air pillows have featured the ubiquitous “chasing arrows” recycling symbol along with the words “store drop-off.” The idea is simple: Since most curbside recycling…

Listen to article(2 minutes)Looking to get promoted quickly or avoid being underpaid? Then find companies where managers rise through the ranks, where promotions come with bigger pay bumps, or where employees stick around and build careers.That information has been hard for employees to find. A new ranking of Fortune 500 companies seeks to help job-hunters avoid dead-end jobs. The 2023 American Opportunity Index rates companies by how well they help employees, especially those without college degrees, move into better,…

DURANGO — A little more than a year before the retail sporting goods behemoth comes to town, REI Co-op’s impending arrival has raised concerns, especially among those who wonder what impact its 20,000-square-foot store will have on Durango’s eclectic array of local outdoor recreation businesses. While some business owners aren’t sweating it, John Agnew has a less sanguine view of the effect REI’s presence may have on his snowboard and outdoor gear shop on Main Street once it opens in early 2025. The Seattle-based chain…

Image: Home DepotIt’s the dead of summer so we can safely say it’s time for Halloween season to start ramping up. Home Depot—the ghouls who brought the 12-foot skeleton into the world—is fully aware, and is ready to unleash an absolutely gargantuan new Pumpkin King. That’s right, it’s a dead man’s party! Home Depot’s 12 ft. Skelly the Skeleton is back this year, and he’s bringing an even taller buddy, courtesy of Disney: a 13-foot Jack Skellington animatronic. The Nightmare Before Christmas King of Halloween comes…

The home-improvement chain said it now projects sales to fall between 2% and 5% in fiscal 2023, rather than stay flat as it projected in February. The home-improvement chain said it now projects sales to fall between 2% and 5% in fiscal 2023, rather than stay flat as it projected in February. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All…

One of the largest timber companies in the world is claiming to “contribute to climate change solutions,” despite the fact that it’s planning to increase lumber production over the next couple of years. As the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, logging giant Weyerhaeuser has made a pivot in recent years to promoting its timber activities as sustainable and green, a move that follows the drive towardcreating profitable carbon offsets from forests—despite the fuzzy math in play.Could NASA's Electric Airplane Make…

Home Depot Inc. forecast a drop in profit this year on flat sales as consumers spend less on goods and become more sensitive to higher prices. The home-improvement chain said Tuesday that it expects adjusted per-share earnings to decline at a mid-single-digit rate for 2023, with margins affected in part by an additional $1 billion that Home Depot said it would invest into wage increases for its hourly employees. Home Depot Inc. forecast a drop in profit this year on flat sales as…

Nick Offerman’s Bill was at the center of “Long, Long Time.”Image: HBOWe realize it’s only January, but if 2023 gives us a better episode of television than episode three of The Last of Us, we’ll be very lucky. “Long, Long Time”—which was less an episode and more a short movie, clocking in around 76 minutes—told a story inspired by the game, but mostly original to the show. Yes, Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) are a big part of it,but the majority focuses on two characters whose 15-plus year journey not just…

The nation’s second-largest U.S. pharmacy chain by locations poured money last year into additional security, some of which executives said was ineffective, and it is now considering cutting back as losses from theft have dropped significantly, finance chief James Kehoe said Thursday. “Maybe we cried too much last year,” over theft losses, Mr. Kehoe said on a call with analysts to discuss Walgreens’s quarterly results. “We probably put in too much, and we might step back,” he said, regarding…

Photo: MIA Studio (Shutterstock)The sci-fi author Stephen R. Donaldson said that “Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.” A few years ago, I might have told you that’s true—about everything except Google and Meta’s ad businesses. My, how times change.Google and Meta control less than 50% of digital ad spending for the first time since 2014, a trend that’s poised to accelerate over the next few years, according to Axios. Citing predictions from Insider Intelligence, Axios reports Google…