The juice on starbucks

Jamba Juice move over! Starbucks plans on starting a chain of juice bars next year and the first ones are to open up on the West COAST! Starbucks is starting off with juices and plans to grow into a health and wellness retail chain.  Personally, i’m excited! Starbucks consumers trust the brand to deliver consistent, superior quality and I am eager to cough up god knows how much for a juice.

It's been way too long!

Finally I am back.  These past weeks have been hectic to say the least.  I have been in West Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and West Texas again.  All the places people dream about going!  I'll save you the trip here are some pics of what I saw:

Halloween moola

Ready for Halloween?! I won’t be taking part in any festivities, just business travel to Oklahoma.  But the majority of America, all 161 million of you are planning on celebrating Halloween this year.  According to a National Retail Federation survey, we spend an average of $72.31 on decorations, costumes and candy. In fact, this year $1.2 billion dollars has been spent on adult costumes!  That means money being coughed up for skanky nurse, pilot, dorthy outfits and so on.  CHA-CHING! Happy Halloween!

Funny

Here's some quick funnies to start off the Thursday:

Q: How do you know it's going to be a double-dip recession?

A: Greek exports of taramosalata and tzatziki have plunged.

Even the German newspaper Deutsche Welle is poking some fun at its people with this one: 

 'For 400 euros you can adopt a Greek. He'll stay at your place, sleep late, drink coffee, have lunch and then take a nap, so you can go to work.'"

Yoga

Are you a yoga fanatic?  Taking classes? Spending on yoga gear and fancy retreats? How much are you spending each year?  Research shows yoga generated revenues are estimated to hit $3.3 billion this year! BILL-ION! Bloomberg researched the potential cost for a woman living in NY to start practicing yoga and continuing for a year.  Turns out the cost comes out to be $ 10,779!  Even though this number includes, intro courses, Luluemon supplies, retreats, meditation courses, props, massages, and yoga music, we still think it’s a bit much.  Namaste.

hello UNIQLO!

I absolutely LOVE Japan and when I visited last year I saw tons of Uniqlo stores all around Tokyo.  I am thrilled to find today is the opening of their largest global flagship in the world, “UNIQLO New York Fifth Avenue!" Uniqlo is supposed to be the “in between” of H&M (young shoppers) and Zara (older shoppers).   The retailers goal is to eventually have 200 stores in the US, so if you haven’t heard of it yet, you will soon.  Good bye 200 GAP stores, hello UNIQLO!

Paste it on

What happened to natural beauty?  A new study, paid for by Procter & Gamble, shows that people perceive women to be more competent when they wear more makeup.  Pretty obvious that appearance plays a role in career success but there isn’t a good explanation of why human beings respond more positively to women who are attractive or attempt to make themselves more attractive.  Next time you’re heading out to an interview or a promotion is right around the corner, make sure you spend an extra 5 minutes on your makeup- maybe even put some eye shadow on.  Obviously, P&G oh so very happy with these results!