Flavored tobacco lures more to smoke: study
Sep 29, 2022 23:48 pm UTC| Health Life Economy Business
Flavored tobacco products lure people to start smoking and influences them to continue with the habit of smoking, a study showed. In a survey of 10,030 people from 13 to 39 years of age conducted by Kim Hee-jin, a...
The Macallan to release whisky commemorating James Bond's 60th anniversary
Sep 29, 2022 23:48 pm UTC| Life Economy Business
The Macallan will come up with a commemorative James Bond 60th anniversary Scotch whisky, which is bottled in six different packages, representing the six decades of 007s movies. According to Macallan, the packaging...
Purple M&M is candy brand's new character
Sep 29, 2022 23:48 pm UTC| Life Economy Business
MMS is adding a first new character to the mix of spokecandies in 10 years, the purple peanut MM, which would not be included in regular MM bags to be sold. According to Jane Hwang, Global Vice President of MMS, Purple...
Costco to try keeping hot dog combo price at $1.50 'forever,' CFO says
Sep 28, 2022 21:26 pm UTC| Life Economy Business
Costco would want to forever keep the price of the hotdog and soda combo at $1.50, where it has been since 1985. On a recent call, the companys chief financial officer Richard Galanti stated the plan is to keep the...
FamilyMart to sell Mos Burger's teriyaki burger-flavored meat bun at 16,600 stores
Sep 28, 2022 21:10 pm UTC| Business Economy Life
Mos Burger and FamilyMart collaborated for the first time to develop a teriyaki burger-flavored nikuman or meat bun to be made available at 16,600 FamilyMart stores across Japan. The Teriyaki Burger, Mos Burgers most...
Japan’s Liquor Museum bar to serve whisky that pairs with Lawson’s karaage fried chicken
Sep 28, 2022 21:10 pm UTC| Life Economy Business
The Liquor Museum bar will open at the Shinjuku Washington Hotel Building on October 6th offering a special whisky designed to pair with Lawson convenience stores Japanese fried chicken, Karaage-kun! The original...
Lawson to install human-controlled digital avatars at stores
Sep 28, 2022 21:05 pm UTC| Life Technology Economy Business
Lawson plans to introduce digital avatars at register monitors that are controlled remotely by real humans at over 200 stores in the next three years. The digital avatars will start showing up at a few Lawson stores as...
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