Anne DInnocenzio, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Shoppers carry shopping bags down Fifth Avenue, Monday, in New York.

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Holiday procrastinators are back. Blame inflation

by Anne DInnocenzio Associated PressDecember 22, 2022

NEW YORK — Last year, Lucila Gomez and her husband started their holiday shopping around Thanksgiving and wrapped it up a week before Christmas, spending $750 on tablets and clothing for their three children and relatives. This year? Gomez is waiting…

Adidas has ended its partnership with the rapper formerly known as Kanye West over his offensive and antisemitic remarks.

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Adidas ends partnership with Ye over antisemitic remarks

by Alexandra Olson Associated Presss, and Anne DInnocenzio Associated PresssOctober 25, 2022

FILE - A customer checks price tags while shopping at a retail store in Schaumburg, Ill., Thursday, June 30, 2022. Consumers picked up their spending in June from May despite surging prices in gas and food. U.S. retail sales rose 1% last month, from a revised decline of 0.1 % in May, the Commerce Department said Friday, July 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

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Retail sales up 1% in June, easing fears of a recession

by Anne DInnocenzio Associated Press, and Christopher Rugaber Associated PressJuly 15, 2022

FILE - Revlon CEO Debra Perelman, the company's first woman CEO in its 89-year-old history, show products during an interview, Wednesday Aug. 18, 2021, in New York. Revlon, the 90-year-old multinational beauty company, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Thursday, June 16, 2022, weighed down by debt load, disruptions to its supply chain network and surging costs. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Beauty icon Revlon files for bankruptcy

by Anne DInnocenzio Associated PressJune 16, 2022

FILE - Staten Island-based Amazon.com Inc distribution center union organizer Chris Smalls, center, wearing baseball cap, celebrates with union members after getting the voting results to unionize workers at the Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, in New York, Friday, April 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

Amazon union’s success worker-driven

by Haleluya Hadero Associated Press, and Anne DInnocenzio Associated PressApril 5, 2022

FILE - In this March 30, 2021 file photo, a banner encouraging workers to vote in labor balloting is shown at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. A labor official is confirming a new union election for Amazon workers in Bessemer, based on objections to the first vote in a rare move. The decision was first announced on Monday, Nov. 29, 2021 by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which spearheaded the union organizing movement (AP Photo/Jay Reeves, File)

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Amazon workers in Ala. get do-over on union election

by Anne DInnocenzio Associated PressNovember 29, 2021

A woman carries shopping bags in New York, Dec. 10, 2020. The National Retail Federation expects that holiday sales could shatter last year’s record-breaking season even as a snarled global supply chain slows the flow of goods and results in higher prices for a broad range of items.

Americans ramp up spending

by Christopher Rugaber Associated Press Writers, and Anne DInnocenzio Associated Press WritersNovember 16, 2021

FILE - In this June 4, 2012, file photo, an unidentified 11-year-old girl logs into Facebook on her iPhone at her home in Palo Alto, Calif. Facebook, in the aftermath of damning testimony that its platforms harm children, will be introducing several features including prompting teens to take a break using its photo sharing app Instagram, and “nudging" teens if they are repeatedly looking at the same content that's not conducive to their well-being. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

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Facebook unveils new controls for kids

by Anne DInnocenzio Associated PressOctober 10, 2021

Five ship to shore cranes and gangs of longshoremen work to load and unload the container ship CMA CGM Laperouse at the Georgia Ports Authority's Port of Savannah, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, in Savannah, Ga. With three months until Christmas, toy companies are racing to get their toys onto store shelves as they face a severe supply network crunch. Toy makers are feverishly trying to find containers to ship their goods while searching for new alternative routes and ports. (AP...

The toy crunch

by Anne DInnocenzio The Associated PressOctober 6, 2021

In this Wednesday, May 19, 2021, photograph, a shopper wearing a face mask loads her purchases into a sports-utility vehicle outside a Safeway grocery store in Aurora, Colo. Many workers in retail sales jobs who are fully vaccinated are concerned about risks posed as retailers change their mask-wearing policies for customers. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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Nervous workers struggle to adjust to new mask rules

by Alexandra Olson Associated Press, Joseph Pisani Associated Press, and Anne DInnocenzio Associated PressMay 20, 2021