Tag Archives: Nissa Hanna

Closet computer: Stylitics offers wardrobe audits for data-driven clotheshorses

March 27, 2012 – 11:49 am

by Nissa Hanna WHAT’S HAPPENING Beta site Stylitics is helping consumers track their personal fashion trends and spends with data-driven charts that analyze what she or he owns, wears and buys. A user uploads personal photos or pulls pics from e-retailers to build her virtual closet, and logs her daily looks into an outfit calendar. […]

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DELICIOUS DESIGN

March 20, 2012 – 2:23 pm

by Nissa Hanna Last week, Iconoculture’s Home and Outdoor Living team took the pulse of our beat at the 2012 International Home and Housewares Show. Chicago’s McCormick Place buzzed with 2,000 exhibitors and 60,000 industry attendees from around the globe. The annual show features organization and cleaning solutions, tools for wired living and wellness, and […]

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Walmart invites fledgling brands to “Get on the Shelf”

February 21, 2012 – 1:46 pm

by Nissa Hanna WHAT’S HAPPENING Walmart is calling all product inventors and budding brands with “Get on the Shelf,” a competition that gives enterprising people a shot at putting their idea on the retailer’s sales floor. Shelf-space-seeking hopefuls submit a video touting their product, then campaign for support on social networks or their own website. […]

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Kids get the cold shoulder from Jell-O’s adults-only vending machine

February 7, 2012 – 12:37 pm

by Nissa Hanna WHAT’S HAPPENING Sorry, kids, you’ll just have to wait: Jell-O’s concept vending machine dishes out free samples of its Temptations desserts — but only to sweets seekers with facial features that reveal a bit more mileage. Kraft is using the facial-recognition device to promote its first line of indulgent adult treats (layered, […]

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SEASONAL SAVVY

January 10, 2012 – 12:13 pm

by Nissa Hanna It’s the beginning of a new year, and the numbers are rolling in for the still-warm holiday shopping season. The results for retailers: Black Friday weekend didn’t disappoint, with record-setting sales and an increase of 16% in total spending from 2010. But then … commerce crickets. Consumers, perhaps taking a page from […]

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Coors cans, stadiums and deer heads: The groom’s cake gets personal

November 29, 2011 – 4:28 pm

by Nissa Hanna WHAT’S HAPPENING The humble groom’s cake is giving way to a wedding showstopper as today’s planning-involved grooms pick confectionery wonders that put the icing on their interests. Spongy, frosted golf clubs, barbecue grills, liquor bottles, football helmets and manly cuisine icons like burgers and hot dogs are springing up at receptions, rehearsal […]

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Amazon debuts shopping storage lockers for NYC customers

November 16, 2011 – 7:20 am

by Nissa Hanna WHAT’S HAPPENING Amazon customers who work or live in Manhattan can secure package protection by having their purchases delivered to a short-term storage locker instead of their unguarded front door. Eight Amazon-branded cubby kiosks are located in select Rite-Aid, Gristedes, D’Agostino and Morton Williams stores (Engadget.com, 17 October 2011). Customers select their […]

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WHAT’S ITALIAN FOR “FASHION FRENZY”?

September 21, 2011 – 8:06 am

  by Nissa Hanna Hours after the Missoni for Target collection debuted in-store last Tuesday, it disappeared. Items were hurled into red carts so fast that by noon one bummed-out Minneapolis Gen Xer sent word that the downtown store’s shoe aisle was a wreckage of empty boxes and dashed dreams. By 9 p.m. we spotted […]

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CLIPPING (EXTREME) COUPONING

July 13, 2011 – 8:45 am

by Nissa Hanna TLC’s special-turned-series Extreme Couponing will return for a second season in September, broadcasting hope to a captive audience of bargain-hungry US consumers. In its most distilled form (withholding judgment and disregarding the hoarding issues), the show radiates optimism: Armed with a circular and a sense of purpose, anyone —anyone! — can reduce […]

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2theloo’s toilet shops advance the public restroom experience

June 29, 2011 – 7:56 am

by Nissa Hanna WHAT’S HAPPENING Shiny tile floors; artsy in-stall murals; a kid-friendly atmosphere: Dutch company 2theloo is offering an alternative to traditional communal commodes with their clean and modern restroom shops. Since February 2011, the company has opened locations in shopping districts and train and gas stations in the Netherlands, Belgium and Poland. A […]

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The Divorcée Sale: Bargain prices for pre-breakup wardrobes

June 21, 2011 – 1:22 pm

by Nissa Hanna WHAT’S HAPPENING Retail therapy usually comes in the form of acquiring new apparel, but The Divorcée Sale is giving recently single women an alternative catharsis: selling their pre-breakup clothing. With the first event held at the L.A. Mondrian Hotel in May 2011, The Divorcée Sale asked well-heeled single women to put a […]

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Congratulations, it’s a … pink cake! Gender-reveal parties make disclosure delicious

May 24, 2011 – 2:24 pm

by Nissa Hanna WHAT’S HAPPENING Finding out the baby’s gender during the ultrasound? Where’s the fun in that? A growing number of expecting couples are sharing the surprise by hosting gender-reveal parties where the sex is slipped by slicing the cake (TheAwl.com, 15 April 2011). A recipe unlike any other: Instead of hearing the news […]

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READY, SET, GET OUTSIDE

May 18, 2011 – 9:40 am

by Nissa Hanna In Minneapolis, the smell of outdoor opportunity is finally breaking the grip of the tenacious winter air. After a few false spring starts, the race to fit a year’s worth of warm weather activities into a few short months is on. We may be the poster children of cold-climate cities, but we’re […]

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The punch line: Rocky is creating a clothing collection

April 26, 2011 – 12:31 pm

by Nissa Hanna WHAT’S HAPPENING And in this corner, weighing in with his fashion point of view… Sylvester Stallone is working on launching a clothing line inspired by, you guessed it, Rocky and Rambo (WWD.com, 24 March 2011). The Boomer actor and his business partner, Michael Henry, are aiming to debut a 2012 collection that […]

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COUPONING’S NEW ERA OF DISCOVERY

March 23, 2011 – 8:30 pm

by Nissa Hanna I’ve finally been making forays into daily-discount territory, where my interest in saving money is being met with the discovery of hard-to-pass-up deals. Businesses’ brilliance lies in making me feel like I got a good deal on something I didn’t even know I wanted the day before — but it’s a balancing […]

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