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Dennis Czerw, owner of Parkway Pharmacy in Philadelphia, served 175 new customers in January. He was “astounded,” he said, given that vaccine demand dropped off later in the month. In February 2021, before the COVID-19 vaccine was available to most people, Parkway had 40 new customers. Vaccinations have brought many new people through the door in recent years and several nearby chain pharmacies have closed, but that doesn’t mean Czerw’s business is booming. “My prescription numbers aren’t growing as much as I’d like them to” for several reasons, he said. In some instances, Czerw has to turn aw...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
SANTA CLARA, California — High-profile tech companies, including Google and Pure Storage, have decided to conduct a fresh round of Bay Area job cuts that will affect hundreds of jobs in the region, state records show. The latest round of job cuts means that tech companies have revealed decisions to slash another 274 jobs, according to WARN notices filed with the state Employment Development Department. Pixelberry Studios, a developer of games for mobile devices; Pure Storage, a data storage firm; and search titan Google are the latest to notify the EDD of upcoming layoffs. All of the staffing ...
The Mercury News
After a slow year for the residential real estate market in 2023, with persistent high mortgage rates and low inventory keeping buyers and sellers sidelined, industry experts are optimistic for the 2024 local and national markets. For Chicago and statewide, housing market trends in the final three months of 2023 continued to show declines in home sales compared with 2022 — apart from in the month of December when Chicago saw a slight increase — with prices staying elevated year-over-year, according to data from Illinois Realtors, a trade association for real estate agents. Nationally, in Decem...
Chicago Tribune
There was a time, not too long ago, when cruise passengers wishing to occupy a cabin by themselves had to pay a supplement of up to 200% of the double-occupancy fare. Increasingly, though, cruise lines are catering to solo travelers with cabins that require no penalty for single occupancy. Solo cabins were something of a rarity on modern cruise ships, which favored staterooms designed for two or more until Norwegian Cruise Line started the trend in 2010 aboard the Norwegian Epic. Now, many other cruise lines are jumping on the single-cabin bandwagon. What follows is a quick rundown of choices ...
TravelPulse
The world’s largest passenger cruise ship reached Miami early Wednesday morning, a long-anticipated arrival expected to further invigorate South Florida’s tourism economy, reinforce the Magic City’s global and national relevance, and potentially expand who takes cruises and why. Dubbed the Icon of the Seas, the 1,198-foot-long ship with a capacity of 5,610 guests, entered Government Cut close to 7 a.m., meeting its pilot boat, then docking at PortMiami. Equipped with six undulating water slides in its own adventure theme park, over 40 restaurants and drinking establishments including two dueli...
Miami Herald
WASHINGTON — A group of 33 Democratic senators led by Michigan's Gary Peters and Debbie Stabenow wrote Thursday to 13 non-unionized automakers asking them to stay neutral and not to interfere with United Auto Workers’ organizing efforts at their plants. The lawmakers cited reports by employees that management at "numerous" automakers have acted illegally to block unionization activities, and are urging each to commit to implementing neutrality agreements at their manufacturing plants — meaning the automakers wouldn't try to sway workers' votes on whether to join the union. “These retaliatory a...
The Detroit News
SKAGIT COUNTY, Wash. — A red-tailed hawk swooped through the tawny grasses and cattails along Fisher Slough, where yellow and white booms labeled "Olympic Pipeline" floated atop the glassy water last week. In the distance, past the trumpeter swans wading in seasonal ponds, crews filled dump trucks with gasoline-tainted soils. Just a little over a week earlier, a connection on BP's Olympic Pipeline system failed and released more than 25,000 gallons of gasoline, some into a farmer's field and nearby salmon-bearing stream. Some wildlife has died, but the full environmental effects have yet to be...
The Seattle Times
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