>>Sports Illustrated Lays Off Most Of Its Staff
(New York, NY) -- Iconic sports publication Sports Illustrated is laying off most of its staff. According to the staff's union, possibly all of the staff has been let go after Sports Illustrated's owner had its publishing license revoked. The union says it will continue to fight for the magazine to be published. Sports Illustrated came under fire recently after it was accused of publishing AI generated stories under fake names. The sports magazine published its first issue in 1954.
>>Wayfair Laying Off 13% Of Global Workforce
(Boston, MA) -- Wayfair is laying off 13-percent of its global workforce. The move will affect more than 16-hundred employees, particularly people in corporate management and leadership positions. The online home goods retailer says its trimming down management and cutting costs to get the company back to its core structure. This is the third wave of Wayfair's restructuring efforts, which started in the summer of 2022, and is expected to save the company around 280-million-dollars.
>>Theft At Self-Checkout Kiosks Proves A Massive Problem For Retailers
(New York, NY) -- Retails stores across the country are reversing course on self-checkout machines. Stores are saying they're a disaster for consumers and retailers alike, with the biggest problem being theft. Shoppers are reportedly 21 times more likely to sneak items past machines than human cashiers, and it's also easy for consumers to steal unintentionally. According to a survey from Lending Tree, one-in-five shoppers reported they've accidentally stolen items during self-checkout, and one-in-seven said they've stolen from self-checkout on purpose. Target, Walmart and Dollar General are all pulling back from efforts to introduce more self-checkouts.
>>Tentative Agreement Reached, CSU Faculty Strike Averted
(Long Beach, CA) -- A strike by California State University faculty members has been averted after a tentative agreement was reached Friday night. Members of the California Faculty Association had scheduled a five-day strike at all CSU campuses set to begin today. A statement from the CSU system said "the agreement covers eleven-hundred skilled trades employees across 22 of the CSU's 23 campuses."
>>Price Of Stamps Goes Up
(Undated) -- It now costs a bit more to send letters in the mail. Over the weekend, the United States Postal Service increased the cost of a First-Class Forever U.S. Postage Stamp from the current 66 cents to 68 cents. The price of domestic postcard stamps also rose from 51 cents to 53 cents. And, stamps for international postcards are now up a nickel to one-dollar 55 cents.
>>"Mean Girls" Stays Atop Box Office
(Undated) -- The top six movies remain the same as last week as "Mean Girls" tops the weekend box office for the second week in a row. The teen musical comedy took in eleven-point-seven-million-dollars in its second week of release and was the only film to break the ten-million-mark over the weekend. "The Beekeeper," "Wonka," "Anyone But You," "Migration" and "Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom" rounded out the top six for the second-straight week. The top debut was I.S.S., which finished seventh with just over three-million-dollars.
