Smuggling, price-gouging, dognapping: True tales from inside the great pandemic puppy boom The pandemic puppy boom is now a COVID-19 era trope around the world, with demand surging from Canada to Sweden to Spain, Brazil, Australia, and Israel. In the U.S., the intense demand initially cleared out animal shelters from Los Angeles to New York, and created a thriving cottage industry of people who will drive or fly puppies across the country on request.
Prices for puppies in the U.S. rose by 36% after the pandemic began compared with the previous year, and are still at roughly those levels, according to PuppySpot, an online listing site for breeders. Scams, too, have abounded: In November 2020, the last month for which data is available, the Better Business Bureau recorded 337 complaints of fraud involving pets, up more than 400% from the same month the previous year; they estimated that the losses from such scams in the U.S. and Canada likely topped $3 million in 2020.
The demand—and the scams—are a product of the same phenomenon. Since the start of the pandemic, much of the world's relatively privileged, urban populations seemed to have stockpiled the things they thought they needed most: beans, gaming systems, toilet paper—and dogs.
A passion for dogs frequently and collectively tipped into something closer to a society-wide obsession—and created bizarre and sometimes disturbing distortions of supply and demand along the way. Unlike toilet paper, moreover, this wasn't a passing phase. This email was sent to acozocom.news01@blogger.com Unsubscribe from these messages here. Fortune Media (USA) Corporation 40 Fulton Street New York, NY 10038 |
Friday, March 26, 2021
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021
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Wednesday, March 17, 2021
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How the highest-ranked female Fortune 500 CEO is taking on vaccinations
Karen Lynch got the big job at CVS. Now comes the big challenge: Vaccinate America Journalists are always looking to capture companies and leaders at moments of transition. And it's hard to imagine a bigger—or more important—transition than the one happening right now at CVS Health.
The $269-billion retail pharmacy chain on a mission to transform itself into a health care company just got a new CEO—Karen Lynch—and she's the highest-ranked female Fortune 500 chief in the list's history. (CVS, after its 2018 Aetna acquisition, is No. 5 on the list; the largest company to be run by a woman prior to Lynch's promotion was Mary Barra's General Motors.)
But it's not just Lynch's big new job that puts CVS in the spotlight. The pharmacy is now at the center of the United States' COVID-19 vaccination campaign. Lynch, who took over Feb. 1, has all eyes on her not just as the most-watched woman in corporate America, but as an executive overseeing a task critical to the nation's public health.
Fortune's Emma Hinchliffe spent the past few months talking to CVS executives, public health officials, and vaccine rollout experts to learn more about Lynch and the pivotal moment she's walking into. The takeaway? It's hard to picture anyone with more operational expertise to execute a challenge like this; Lynch, 58, rose through the ranks of Cigna, Magellan, and Aetna before arriving at CVS and oversaw two of the health care industry's largest integrations, between Aetna and Coventry in 2013 and then Aetna and CVS.
But it's her personal side that gives her a different kind of insight into the critical importance of getting vaccination right. At age 12, Lynch lost her mother to suicide; she was raised by her Aunt Millie, who died when Lynch was in her late 20s. As a young adult, Lynch became her aunt's caretaker. Sitting by Millie's hospital bed, failing to find the answers she sought about Millie's breast and lung cancer and trying to interpret incomprehensible medical bills helped inspire Lynch to enter the health care industry—with the ambitious goal of reforming it.
For the CEO of America's fifth-largest public company, Lynch is remarkably candid, willing to discuss everything from the emotional toll of her mother's illness and death to her decision not to have children. Today, she's a clear-eyed executive with her focus on vaccination numbers and CVS's share price, but her goal is to never lose sight of that personal side—not just her own story, but the stories of the millions of people affected by every decision her mammoth company makes. This email was sent to acozocom.news01@blogger.com Unsubscribe from these messages here. Fortune Media (USA) Corporation 40 Fulton Street New York, NY 10038 |
Friday, March 12, 2021
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Tuesday, March 9, 2021
One Year Later: 15 ways life has changed
One Year Later: 15 ways the pandemic has transformed our lives This week marks the one-year anniversary of when Fortune advised all U.S. and Europe-based staffers to work from home. Looking back on the email announcement is like looking at a time capsule. There was a strong focus on cleaning and sanitization, which we now know isn't a good use of time and resources in fighting the battle against COVID-19. Business travel was canceled. Training sessions on working from home were offered. But most notable is that initially the office shutdown was scheduled for just one week: "We will reevaluate the need to extend this temporary policy next week and will communicate updates accordingly."
Most of us haven't been back in the office since.
The past year has transformed nearly every aspect of our world. Seemingly overnight, the quirky (wearing leggings during a Zoom call with clients!) became mundane. Meanwhile, our friends, family, colleagues, and communities have had their lives changed in critical ways that promise to have much longer-lasting effects. Living through a global pandemic has driven dramatic shifts in our jobs, eating habits, childcare, and even our collective sense of time.
Fifteen Fortune staffers reported on some of the most significant ways in which our lives have been altered, and one lesson rings true: Virtually no one has been left untouched after 12 months of such dramatic disruption. A generous dose of empathy and understanding of that truth will make us all stronger as we rebuild and remake our world in the year ahead. This email was sent to acozocom.news01@blogger.com Unsubscribe from these messages here. Fortune Media (USA) Corporation 40 Fulton Street New York, NY 10038 |
Friday, March 5, 2021
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