The Amazon-owned Quidsi family of websites, including Diapers.com, Soap.com, and BeautyBar.com, is dead, but customers of those sites still have questions: Where can they shop now, and what will they do if they have a problem with an item ordered on the sites? [More]
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Diapers.com, Soap.com, And Sibling Sites To Be Folded Into Amazon On Wednesday
By Laura Northrup 4.17.17 — Updated: 5.9.17
Sports Authority Store Closing Sales Will Start Around May 25, End Around August 31
By Laura Northrup 5.18.16
If you’re looking for a great deal on some athletic clothing or sports gear, get ready to head over to Sports Authority… maybe sometime in July. Deep in debt and unable to reorganize itself to keep going, the company declared bankruptcy in March. Liquidators outbid competitors for the remaining stores, and Dick’s and Modell’s only wanted a few dozen stores combined anyway. [More]
Maybe You Didn’t Know It Existed In The First Place But Apple Is Killing Its “Ping” Social Network
By Mary Beth Quirk 10.1.12 — Updated: 9.30.12
Joining the social network graveyard as of yesterday, Apple announced it would be shuttering its Ping venture. What? You’d never heard of an iTunes music social network called Ping? Welcome to the club, and now it’s too late to join if you were fancying the idea of signing up for yet another site on which to share every detail of your life. [More]