Luxury stores still limiting crowds post-COVID
— and won’t admit why
Posted By: Ribicon, 5/29/2022 7:09:11 PM
COVID-19 is waning, but shopping for a Louis Vuitton bag, a Chanel suit or a pair of Gucci loafers increasingly means standing in line outside a boutique—and luxury brands have been conspicuously tight-lipped on why. Most elite labels leaned into “appointment shopping” during the height of the pandemic, citing the need for social distancing. But as the threat from the virus recedes, some including Cartier and Harry Winston continue to impose the new policy. They also have failed to convince shoppers and experts alike of their reasoning—if they bother to explain themselves at all. Major brands including Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Cartier didn’t respond
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
people like this.
person likes this.
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "Ribicon"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
Most Recent Articles posted by
Ribicon"
Latest CDC Data Shows Covid-19 Infections
Higher in Boosted Americans Compared to Unboosted 2 replies
Higher in Boosted Americans Compared to Unboosted 2 replies
The latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that breakthrough Covid-19 infections in April was worse in boosted Americans compared to the vaccinated but not boosted. According to the data analyzed by far-left CBS, the week of April 23 showed that boosted Americans are catching COVID-19 at nearly double the rate of those who have not been boosted. But claimed the unvaccinated remain the highest group. The unvaccinated rate is a bit misleading as CDC includes those with 1 dose and even 2 doses under 14 days.(Snip)This April, an analysis of CDC data by The Epoch Times reveals
Whodunnit: U.S. investigators probe theft
of millions from Afghan government during
Taliban takeover 2 replies
of millions from Afghan government during
Taliban takeover 2 replies
Afghanistan’s president didn’t make off with oodles of cash as he fled the country last summer, but someone seems to have, according to a new inspector general’s report Monday that says a key security account was drained of funds the day before the Taliban took over.
Allegations that former President Ashraf Ghani made off with $169 million in his helicopter can’t be true, America’s Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said. The chopper simply couldn’t have concealed and carried what would have amounted to nearly two tons of cash, investigators said. But someone did manage to get to “tens of millions of dollars” that were in a vault
In his third run for president, Joe Biden's pitch to Americans was simple: after half a century in elected office, including eight years as vice-president, he understood the demands of what is arguably the hardest job in the world. It was a point Biden stressed on the campaign trail, in his own folksy way: "Everything landed on the president's desk but locusts." Nearly a year and a half into his presidency, Biden now appraises his own fortunes differently. "I used to say in Barack's administration: ‘Everything landed on his desk but locusts,'" he told Democratic donors in Oregon. "Well, they landed on my desk."(Snip)Biden inherited a nation in
US service member may have planted explosives
in inside attack at Army base, injuring
4 others 2 replies
in inside attack at Army base, injuring
4 others 2 replies
An inside attack on a US military base in Syria that injured four soldiers might have been carried out by a fellow service member, Army officials said. The potential suspect is back stateside as the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division and Air Force Office of Special Investigations probes the April 7 attack on the base called Green Village, an Army spokesperson said. The explosives were put in an ammunition holding area and shower facility. Two officials told CNN the explosives were “not insignificant” and had more detonation power than a hand grenade. The four soldiers were evaluated for possible traumatic brain injuries and other minor injuries.
Mexico’s president is reviving calls for a continental superstate that would combine North American employers and South American employees–and sideline tens of millions of middle-class Americans.
“I will go in July to visit [President Joe Biden] at the White House and I want to discuss with him the issue of the integration of all America,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at a press conference in Mexico’s presidential palace. He continued: “My position is that, just as how the European community was created… we have to do that in America.”(Snip)The same continent-wide superstate was pushed in 2001 by President G.W. Bush and Mexico’s then-president
White House: Frustrated Americans Should
Remember That Gas Prices Are Even Higher
in Other Countries 5 replies
Remember That Gas Prices Are Even Higher
in Other Countries 5 replies
The White House on Monday reminded Americans frustrated with record-high gas prices that the cost of fuel was even higher in foreign countries. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responded to questions about high gas prices during the daily briefing by noting it was “really important” that people understood that prices were higher across the globe. She noted that gas prices in the European Union were $8.15 a gallon, prices in Germany were $8.88 a gallon, and prices in Canada were $6.23 a gallon. “This is a global challenge, this is something that everyone is feeling across the globe,” she said, arguing that gas prices
The CDC is advising travelers to wear masks as it confirms there are now 31 cases of monkeypox in 13 states in the United States. Monkeypox is now found in 27 countries worldwide, and the threat level on Monday rose to two out of three—'practice enhanced precautions'. Level one is 'practice usual precautions'; level three is classed as 'avoid non-essential travel'. The CDC says travelers should avoid close contact with sick people, including those with skin lesions or genital lesions, and steer clear of dead or live wild animals including rats, squirrels and monkeys.(Snip)'Wear a mask,' they state. 'Wearing a mask can help protect you
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed fellow Democrats who won’t use the umbrella term “Latinx” to refer to Hispanic people and Latin Americans. The New York Democrat said those in and out of her party who question the validity of the term are making other peoples’ self-identification about themselves. “There are some politicians, including Democratic politicians, who rail against the term Latinx, and they’re like ‘this is so bad,’ ‘this is so bad for the party,’ and like blah, blah, blah, and it’s almost as though it has not struck some of these folks that another person’s identity is not about your reelection prospects,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who is
President Joe Biden on Monday announced a fifth flight from Operation Fly Formula, which will bring infant formula from Germany to the United States. The flight will transport Nestlé infant formulas from Cologne, Germany, to Fort Worth, Texas, arriving stateside on June 9. The delivery will include 110,000 pounds of Nestlé NAN SupremePro Stage 1 infant formula, approximately 1.6 million 8-ounce bottles. The new announcement comes as the Biden administration is battling questions about when it learned about the formula shortage and why it wasn't better prepared to deal with the rows of empty grocery store shelves as anxious parents worried about how they would feed their babies.
The family of a top advisor to Bill Clinton who admitted Jeffrey Epstein to the White House multiple times during his presidency is pulling out all the stops to keep details of his mysterious death becoming public. They have petitioned a judge to prevent pictures of Mark Middleton's death scene being released under the Freedom of Information Act. And now the local Arkansas sheriff is interpreting that to mean he can't talk or release any details of Middleton's May 7 suicide.(Snip)His death adds to the number of close associates of the former president and first lady who have died unexpectedly, many in small plane crashes.
The Biden administration is about to give one of the biggest US technological breakthroughs of the 21st century to Russia and China—free of charge. That’s not the administration’s goal, of course. But it’s the inevitable result of a proposed deal that US negotiators recently struck in Geneva, Switzerland, at the World Trade Organization. The pact would effectively nullify intellectual-property protections on COVID-19 vaccines, including the next-generation mRNA shots from US companies Moderna and Pfizer. These mRNA platforms represent decades of research backed by billions of dollars in public and private investment. But if the WTO votes in favor at its summit starting June 12, our strategic
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing “mild symptoms.” The 40-year-old Democratic rising star says he work from home in accordance with Centers for Disease Control guidance until it’s safe for him to return “to the office and the road.” Buttigieg visited Michigan for two official events late last week but it’s not clear how he contracted the virus. There was no immediate word if his husband, Chasten, has also tested positive. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.), who spent time with Buttigieg on his trip, said Monday she was negative.
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
Oreo Cookies joined the woke corporate trend this week by celebrating Pride Month with special packaging.
Partnering with the organization PFLAG, Oreo created its own limited edition “Pride Pack,” which comes “covered with words of love and support from real allies of the LGBTQ+ community.” (snip) Oreo has been pushing corporate wokeism since 2012 when the company released a gay pride Oreo cookie ad.
“We are excited to illustrate what is making history today in a fun and playful way,” Basil Maglaris, a spokeswoman for Kraft Foods wrote at the time.
President Joe Biden and his aides have grown increasingly frustrated by their inability to turn the tide against a cascade of challenges threatening to overwhelm the administration.
Soaring global inflation. Rising fuel prices. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. A Supreme Court poised to take away a constitutional right. A potentially resurgent pandemic. A Congress too deadlocked to tackle sweeping gun safety legislation even amid an onslaught of mass shootings. In crisis after crisis, the White House has found itself either limited or helpless in its efforts to combat the forces pummeling them. Morale inside 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is plummeting amid growing fears that the parallels to Jimmy Carter
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing “mild symptoms.” The 40-year-old Democratic rising star says he work from home in accordance with Centers for Disease Control guidance until it’s safe for him to return “to the office and the road.” Buttigieg visited Michigan for two official events late last week but it’s not clear how he contracted the virus. There was no immediate word if his husband, Chasten, has also tested positive. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.), who spent time with Buttigieg on his trip, said Monday she was negative.
Rep. Jim Jordan is never one to mince words. (Snip) After more than a year of attacking Biden as a commander in chief who is bumbling, incompetent, prone to foot-in-mouth, rambling until he is lost, and mentally challenged, Republicans have changed tack as they head into crucial midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.
Now, the most unpopular features of the current American scene — high gas and food prices, transgender mandates and the open border among them — are relentlessly painted as part of the president's and Democrats' deliberate policies.
"The wide-open 'border' is no accident," columnist and London Center fellow Deroy Murdock wrote in a Memorial Day weekend column.
Prince Harry arrived back in the US looking glum late Sunday after taking off from his grandmother’s Platinum Jubilee on a private jet before the celebrations came to a close. Harry—who was booed alongside wife Meghan Markle during their only official appearance in their rare UK trip—looked notably somber as he was photographed after arriving back in his new home in California’s swanky Santa Barbara.(Snip)“There was no fanfare, they just went,” one insider told the Sun of the trip that was the first time in the UK for Harry’s daughter, Lilibet.(Snip)Their private jet was estimated to cost about $200,000, according to the Sun,
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis claimed another clean win over former President Donald Trump in a recent straw poll of self-identified conservative conference-goers who were asked who they'd like to be the 2024 presidential nominee.
According to the poll, DeSantis received the thumbs-up from 71.01% of voters, while Trump received approval from 67.68% of those who answered the poll.
Former First Daughter Malia Obama enjoyed an early dinner with friends in Santa Monica on Saturday as she continues to embrace her new life on the West Coast. The 23-year-old, who is a writer on Donald Glover's upcoming Amazon project, 'Hive,' was spotted with a group of her pals at Manchego, a cozy Spanish tapas restaurant located just blocks from the Pacific Ocean.
Malia was the epitome of California cool in a fitted red tank that she wore tucked into high-waisted black shorts. To keep from getting a chill, she threw on a long-sleeve maroon shrug.
President Joe Biden will make his first in-studio late-night appearance as president when he sits down for an interview on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' later this week. 'Our very elected President @JoeBiden visits @JimmyKimmelLive Wednesday night,' host Jimmy Kimmel tweeted on Sunday. 'No malarkey.'Biden’s interview will air at 11:35 p.m. ET on Wednesday, June 8 on ABC. This will mark the Biden's first in-studio appearance on a late night talk show since he was sworn into office in January 2021. (Tweet/Photo) Kimmel tweeted the news on Sunday during Jimmy Kimmel Live: NBA Finals Game Night.The interview will be filmed at the studio at El Capitan Entertainment Centre
Pete Buttigieg took questions on Sunday from George Stephanopoulos. This little man with the carefully tweezed eyebrows, sleazy 5:00 shadow, Alfred E. Neuman mien, and orator’s voice hid behind fatuous, hackneyed political babble even as he discretely revealed the hardcore totalitarianism that drives him and, indeed, drives the entire Biden administration. In many ways, Buttigieg is like a Stepford politician. There’s something eerily unreal about the man as, no matter the question, he responds with administration talking points rather than substantive information.
Packin’ heat: Nude Hunter Biden cavorts
with hooker, illegal gun in latest mess
for president 21 replies
with hooker, illegal gun in latest mess
for president 21 replies
Hunter Biden shows himself to be a real first son-of-a-gun in the latest embarrassing personal video leak for President Biden’s scandal-scarred offspring. A naked Hunter casually waves around a handgun and even points it at the camera while partying with a prostitute in 2018, the video shows, according to a report Monday.
The 52-year-old Hunter got cheeky in front of a camera during a twisted session with a sex worker in October 2018, Radar Online reported, citing leaked photos and videos from the first son’s iPhone.(Snip)Hunter Biden, who has battled serious drug addiction for years, bought a .38-caliber revolver in Delaware
President Biden will invoke the Defense Production Act to spur domestic production of clean energy technology and order a two-year tariff exemption on solar panels imported from Southeast Asian countries in a bid to tackle rising energy prices. The move will accelerate production of solar panel parts, building insulation, heat pumps that more efficiently regulate the climate in buildings and equipment for making fuel cells and other electricity-generated fuels. Mr. Biden also will waive tariffs on solar panels imported from four Southeast Asian countries in a move to nudge Americans toward green alternatives amid rising energy prices.(Snip)The tariff announcement comes after a months-long investigation
Joy Behar Slams Republicans for Being
Uncooperative: “All They Care About
Is Making Biden Look Bad” 20 replies
Uncooperative: “All They Care About
Is Making Biden Look Bad” 20 replies
Joy Behar ripped Republicans on Monday’s episode of The View, going after the party for their pessimistic approach to policy. During a conversation about the ongoing baby formula shortage in the U.S., Behar slammed conservatives for refusing to cooperate with Democrats, claiming they are too focused on making President Joe Biden “look bad.”Her comments came as The View panel discussed the recent re-opening of America’s largest baby formula plant. Before Behar blasted the party, her co-host Whoopi Goldberg pointed out that in May, 192 Republicans had “voted against easing the baby formula shortage with $28 million in emergency spending,” while only 12 voted in favor.
Comments:
Because this is America, they can't put up a sign announcing that only one bLACK person will be allowed into the store at a time, so the other wastrels will just have to stand there on line and stew.