Charles Duhigg outlines in the New York Times how Target tries to hook parents-to-be at that crucial moment before they turn into rampant -- and loyal -- buyers of all things pastel, plastic, and miniature. He talked to Target statistician Andrew Pole -- before Target freaked out and cut off all communications -- about the clues to a customer's impending bundle of joy. Target assigns every customer a Guest ID number, tied to their credit card, name, or email address that becomes a bucket that stores a history of everything they've bought and any demographic information Target has collected from them or bought from other sources. Using that, Pole looked at historical buying data for all the ladies who had signed up for Target baby registries in the past. From the NYT:
Then, in November 2020, Amazon introduced Amazon Pharmacy, separate from the PillPack business, and of course with free two-day delivery for Prime members. The company said at the time that Prime members without prescription drug coverage, or with a high-deductible plan, could save up to 80% on generic drugs and 40% on brand-name drugs when paying in cash. Amazon Pharmacy also developed a tool for shoppers to compare drug prices in-cash versus with-insurance before checking out.
After doing our first Travel Planners last spring\u2014Italy, France, Greece\u2014we decided to kick off with Spain this year. We asked you to post your questions. With Italy, we got over 300 of them; France and Greece around 200. But with Spain, something unexpected happened: you didn\u2019t have so many (only around 50!). My theory is that it\u2019s because so many of us (myself included) end up traveling to places we love on repeat (bella Italia!) because you know it works and it\u2019s worth it\u2014and you feel like part of a community (what\u2019s better than being recognized by a local in a foreign place?!). But this also means you\u2019re not experiencing some other great places. No judgment\u2014I\u2019m in the same boat, as is our deputy editor, Alex. So we both started asking our own questions, and then hitting up every one of our friends and their friends who know the country well. Now that we\u2019ve gathered all of these incredible suggestions from our Yolo network, we can\u2019t wait to road-trip across the countryside sleeping in historic Paradores (converted monasteries and castles), eat the best anchovies by the sea in Cantabria, drink tinto de verano by a splashing fountain in Cadiz, visit the Picasso Museum in M\u00E1laga, and have the whole wild beach to ourselves on Ibiza\u2019s quiet side. Also, it doesn\u2019t hurt that Spain remains more affordable than much of the rest of Europe.
While the problem of unintended pregnancy spanned all strata of society, the choices available to women varied before Roe. At best, these choices could be demeaning and humiliating, and at worst, they could lead to injury and death. Women with financial means had some, albeit very limited, recourse to a legal abortion; less affluent women, who disproportionately were young and members of minority groups, had few options aside from a dangerous illegal procedure.
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At the dawn of World War II, the zoot suit was condemned by the U.S. government as wasteful. Not surprisingly, the criticism did little to dissuade its fans from wearing it, and in fact may have even attracted more people to the look. In the early 1940s, working-class youth, entertainers and dancers continued to wear zoot suits, and the look spread to Italian Americans, Jews, and even some teenage girls.