McDonalds exits Russia 🍔
This Week in Review ☕️ : The Biggest Fashion Giant changes Online Shopping | The Evolution of Clean Skincare | The End of an Era at Apple | World Heritage Site becomes live NFT in Spain | Christies to
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Food 🍔 : McDonald's to exit Russia after a 32-year run.
The world's largest burger chain is selling to a local buyer- getting rid of its 850 restaurants, which employ a total of 62,000 people.
The move will see McDonald's write-off of up to $1.4bn, NY Times reports.
Meanwhile, McD employees at the drive thru watching our Subaru pull up for our 4th Quarter Pounder today 👇🏻🙈
"The humanitarian crisis and the unpredictable operating environment, have led continued ownership of the business in Russia is no longer tenable."
"This is a complicated issue [..] Russia is no longer consistent with McDonald's values."
-McDonalds
Our Thoughts💡: McDonald's is out of Russia.
Good for you, Big Mac 🙌🏻
Big Tech 📲 : The End of an era: Apple will discontinue the iPod after a two decade run.
The iPhone maker is pulling the plug on an iconic product that helped "revolutionize the music industry", WSJ reports.
PS. Which one was your favorite?👇🏻
We still remember our first iPod, a blue nano. Loved everything about it: the clickwheel, the classic white earphones, the fact that it fit perfectly in our Levi's denim, Billboard Hot 100 in our pocket..
But the truth is- every product has a lifecycle. Even if you are an iPod.
However, as smartphones have grown more sophisticated, sales have diminished.
No sh*t, who the hell still buys iPods in 2022?
Still, "the spirit of the iPod lives on” in other Apple products, according to the Cupertino giant.
Fashion 👠 : Zara to charge shoppers for online returns, BBC reports.
The tills are criminally short-staffed, so purchasing online was the only option tbh.
ALSO, we'd like to add: Use REAL models so we get the sizing right. Even the "curvy" ones are skin and bones. The women in our family are too porky to not become serial returners! 🙏
Shoppers who want to return an item via post will have to pay £1.95 or can return the item in-store for free.
Returns have become a rising cost for retailers as online shoppers are more likely to send back items. Returns cost British retailers £7bn in 2019, according to KPMG.
Are we the only ones who believe Instagram influencers are the ones responsible for the mass returns in e-commerce due to 'unboxing' content?
As monstrously large orders are unboxed, it raises the question of how many of the clothes were bought just.for.the.damn.reel ?!
Our Thoughts💡: Tbh, as shopping moved online this pandemic, the face of Zara addiction has become far less about the bored suburban housewife hitting the high street and more about anyone who can't help themselves away from that one-click ordering button.. ahem.. 🙄
Let's be honest: About as essential as the Banana Bread starter kit and Hand-sanitizer, Sweats became the official #WFH uniform the past 2 years.
And NO ONE makes cozier and more affordable sweats than Zara!
NFT 🖼 : Antoni Gaudí’s iconic Casa Batlló in Barcelona is the first UNESCO World Heritage site to become a live NFT.
We're not surprised. When concepts like "NFTs" turn into a verb in like, 10 months, this sh*t is bound to happen
The has been auctioned off at Christie's in New York for €1.3mn. The buyer's identity remains unknown.
The piece is the first generative NFT of its kind and was designed using innovative sensor technology.
Previously, 47,000 people had attended a projection of the piece on site at Barcelona's Passeig de Gràcia, Design Boom reports.
Our Thoughts💡: In other word, the über wealthy have now found a new way to stash, embezzle and transfer their money lmao
Welcome to 2022. The Future is Non-Fungible 🚀
Quicker Bites:
Multiple people short at a church in Orange County, California.
Ukraine surrenders Mariupol plant.
Twitter, under shareholder pressure, begins deal talks with Elon Musk.
Several countries make masks mandatory again amid surge in Covid-19 cases.
Britain plans to send tanks to Poland in deal to help Ukraine.
US pledges further aid and return of diplomats to Ukraine.
Jane Fonda isn't fazed by being 'closer to death': "It doesn't really bother me".