• Gucci Targets 'True' Luxury Customers
    Gucci has opened a new 15,000-square-foot megastore as its London flagship. It comes at a pivotal time in Gucci’s journey. "Sales at the Italian house have been stalling, and longtime president and CEO Marco Bizzarri is leaving in September (his departure was announced in July)," per Vobue Business. "Parent company Kering is grappling with the pressures around its lackluster share performance and financials that lag other luxury groups."
  • Delta Air Lines Hires Tom Brady As Adviser
    Delta Air Lines has hired Tom Brady to work on internal employee training and appear in external advertising campaigns. The airline said that the seven-time Super Bowl champion would become a “strategic adviser” to the airline. Brady will advise on "teamwork tools" for the airline’s more than 90,000 employees and take part in select marketing campaigns.
  • Apple Considers Low-Cost MacBook
    Apple might be considering a low-cost version of the MacBook in order to take on Google’s Chromebook dominance in the education arena."Apple coming out with a low-cost anything should always be taken with a grain of salt, but rumors of the company working on a Chromebook competitor do make sense for a few reasons," per Fast Company. "A new low-cost MacBook could help Apple jumpstart its laptop sales in 2024."
  • United Briefly Grounds All Flights On Tuesday
    United Airlines chose to briefly ground all flights on Tuesday due to a systemwide technology issue. "This is the third time in less than a year that a technical glitch has disrupted air travel on a large scale in the United States," per Afar. "United has yet to reveal the precise details on what went wrong. Until then, air travelers should always be armed with information in case they encounter any issues, including knowing how best to track the status of your flight in real time, and how to best avoid flight delays and cancellations (and what to do when delays and cancellations occur)."
  • Music Aside, Jimmy Buffet Was An Astute Marketer
    Along with his timeless classics, musician Jimmy Buffet created a billion-dollar empire thanks to shrewd marketing."If people feel connected to a brand, the thinking goes, they will buy more stuff," says The Atlantic. "Buffett was an early master of this art: He was selling goods and services, but he was also offering a sense of belonging. And though it has become de rigueur for celebrities to peddle branded products, be it skin care or tequila, Buffett has been translating pop-culture recognition into product sales for decades."
  • Some Drinks Blur Line Between Kid, Adult Beverages
    Some whimsical drinks blur the line between adult and kids beverages, according to regulator, consumer groups and public health experts, who fear a parent might inadvertently buy and serve alcohol to underage children. "Beverage aisles are teeming with new, boozy drinks sold under household-favorite brands such as Mountain Dew, SunnyD, Simply Orange juice and Eggo," per The Wall Street Journal. "The crossover products have multiplied as companies like PepsiCo and Coca-Cola look to gain a foothold in fast-growing alcoholic beverage categories." 
  • Hallmark Partners With Venmo
    Hallmark and Venmo are joining to give customers a way to send money with Venmo in a paper Hallmark card.  Customers select a card from the new line celebrating a range of occasions and scan a unique QR code inside each card.  "They then choose the amount they want to give, and hand write a personalized message," per Chain Store Age. "When the recipient opens the card, they scan the QR code to gain access to the gifted amount in their own Venmo account."
  • Walgreens CEO Departure Leaves S&P 500 Without Any Black Females
    The departure of Walgreens CEO Rosalind Brewerwill leaves the S&P 500 with no Black female CEOs. It underscores "the slow path of progress for diversity in America’s C-suite. And it could be a long wait for another Black woman in a top spot," per the Boston Globe. Before Brewer arrived at Deerfield, Ill.-based Walgreens, there hadn’t been a Black woman at the helm of an S&P 500 company in the five years since Ursula Burns left Xerox in 2016. While Black women make up 8.3% of all employees, they are just 1.8% of executives, according to research from workplace equity platform …
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