During the coronavirus lockdown, a particular meme has been doing the rounds on Instagram and Twitter. It shows a woman in a pink ballgown, complete with tulle train billowing out behind her. She’s not standing on a glitzy red carpet. She is in a supermarket produce section, clutching a bunch of carrots in one hand and reaching for a red ...

Even as some retailers begin to open stores again, the pain across malls and main streets continues to take its toll. J Crew Group Inc said it would begin pre-arranged Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings and enter into a $1.65 billion debt-for-equity swap with its lenders, becoming the first major US retailer to succumb to the economic convulsions caused by the ...

The inevitable video-call backlash is well underway. Videoconferencing is exhausting, people complain. Our brains have to work harder than they do in face-to-face interactions. And so we give each other advice on how to combat Zoom fatigue and speculate whether it’s worse for extroverts. However, some people have been having the opposite experience. Since they got the hang of video ...