Convenience is king - pandemic accelerated changes in retail, and there may be no going back
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The retail sector was in flux, and the pandemic kicked the changes into high gear.
Traffic at many brick-and-mortar stores disappeared. Online shopping surged as lockdown orders and fear of contracting COVID-19 kept people at home.
“More people have permanently moved online,” said Venky Shankar, research director at Texas A&M University’s Center for Retailing Studies.
Walmart, H-E-B, Target and other businesses deemed essential saw sales skyrocket early on, while department stores and malls struggled. Apparel sales slumped as more people started working from home and business meetings and events went virtual.
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If your dog barks at everything, interrupting Zoom meetings, work calls, here s how to fix that
Richard A. Marini
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COVID has been tough on all relationships. Spending months cooped up together in the house has strained even the best of marriages, and it’s led to a heartbreaking realization for many all over the world: our dogs are nowhere near the angels we thought they were.
They’ve interrupted countless Zoom meetings and work calls with their barking at the postman, the Amazon delivery van, the doorbell, the cat across the street, the bird in the window, the fly in the house, the neighbors’ kids playing, the phone ringing and the tree branch swaying in the wind.
Kiana Williams wins championship with Stanford. Here s what you should know about the San Antonian.
Taylor Pettway
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Stanford s Kiana Williams, in white, pushes the ball up the court against South Carolina s Destanni Hendersonduring their 2021 NCAA Women s Final Four national semifinal game at the Alamodome on Friday, Apr. 2, 2021.Kin Man Hui, San Antonio Express-News / Staff photographer
San Antonio is home to an NCAA women s basketball champion.
On Sunday, Wagner High School graduate Kiana Williams helped lead Stanford to a 54-53 victory over Arizona at the Alamodome for the national title.
“To win it in my hometown, that means a lot, Williams told the Express-News. I know my teammates wanted this as bad as I did, in my senior year, in my hometown. Everything just lined up, and I feel like it was already written.”
Student-volunteers show big love to Lafayette community
KATIE GAGLIANO, The Advocate
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LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) Grey-shirted Ragin’ Cajuns fanned through campus and neighborhoods surrounding the University of Louisiana at Lafayette last Saturday for a “big” day of community service.
Around 600 UL Lafayette students, faculty and alumni turned out to collect litter, plant trees, garden and assist local nonprofits, including the United Way of Acadiana and Second Harvest Food Bank, for The Big Event at UL Lafayette.
March 27 was UL’s eighth Big Event. The service project came to campus in 2013, an off-shoot of the longtime service project of the same name at Texas A&M University. The Big Event service events are now held annually at more than 100 university campuses in the United States and internationally, per The Big Event’s website.