>covert action blown because of a traffic accident

1. Boy, Amazon is in a heap of trouble. Evidence made public yesterday by California AG @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov shows blatant price fixing. And there are so many examples. Here's Amazon scheming with a pet food supplier to get Chewy to raise its prices.

California Accuses Amazon of Price Fixing in Legal Filing

Amazon saw lower prices at competitors and urged the brands to pressure those competitors to raise their prices, which they did. In writing. @robbonta.bsky.social has the receipts of this cartel behavior.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/t...

Honestly I’m so irritated by all of this that I might just get my laptop out

Yeah the sizing filters do not make sense. XXL is not a 14!!

I used to have my own browsing habits down so well that I bought at least one thing a week and sold pretty often as well, and now that’s just totally stopped on both sides

If anything, how friendly and cheerful Americans are tends to be the subject of derision abroad (especially in Europe lmao)

It’s totally impossible to effectively filter for your size even within searches now because the filter doesn’t work, and the algorithmically populated homepage feed seems to ignore your saved sizes entirely for some reason??

the edsbs charity bowl has now raised more money than the entire amount the sugar bowl foundation gave to charity last year ($435,600 on $74 million in net assets)

Genuinely I am so, so irritated by this. I used to buy stuff on there all the time and I haven’t bought anything at all in almost a month. And that was a pair of sandals I’d been looking for everywhere since February. It’s completely unusable now!

I have all of my personal sizes set in the app and it just entirely ignores those in the feed it requires me to look at! But it knows which brands I’ve looked at recently and promotes those in that feed.

Poshmark redesigned its app and now all of the methods by which I used to sort of passively browse around no longer exist and I’m going to, like, march on their offices or something

It was either this or finding a number to quantify my feelings about Mike Bobo

I do what I can

Apr 14th, 2025 20:07 Holly we're gonna fuck around and hit 200k by midnight what the hell

3h ago 15:23 Holly So there's a very real chance we break $300k today

RAISED SO FAR $373,449 OUR GOAL $1,000,000 TOTAL DONORS 1097

A #CharitibundiBowl triptych: last year/ this morning / this evening

QVC Lost the Home Shoppers to Social Media Influencers The cable-TV seller faces bankruptcy as TikTok Shop and other video platforms take over.

New in Buying Power: I wrote about QVC's bankruptcy and the stuck-at-home consumer world that home shopping television created—and that we'll all be living in for decades to come. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Honestly I should not have this power

Apple’s Heir Apparent Steps Into the Spotlight As the company turns 50, the wheels of succession are in motion. John Ternus is likely the next CEO.

A little under a month ago, Businessweek published a profile of the (now) new Apple CEO from my @bloomberg.com colleague Mark Gurman. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

This article does double duty:

Change a few nouns and it explains how influencers sell _ideas_ to people, not just merch.

(Those direct-to-camera, talk-like-we-have-a-relationship videos are no accident.)

every daytime tv show has a segment where they are selling things

recently saw it on the today show and kelly clarkson and it is *jarring*

As I've said, modern digital media IS television, generally the worst parts of it, only more so than televison itself could ever be

I think institutional inertia can be very real—big, old companies are usually not structured for foresight and experimentation. Easier to try things and fail from a small company that only becomes big and moribund after an idea works out.

QVC Lost the Home Shoppers to Social Media Influencers The cable-TV seller faces bankruptcy as TikTok Shop and other video platforms take over.

New in Buying Power: I wrote about QVC's bankruptcy and the stuck-at-home consumer world that home shopping television created—and that we'll all be living in for decades to come. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amazing. I also thought about something Bobo-related lmao

I didn’t touch the minibar tho (I did look at it)

Go Hoosier

Only fair that I pay forward how much joy I felt watching him throw every single one of them

Finally settled on my contribution: $1,200 plus fees, which is $100 for each of Carson Beck’s 12 interceptions as quarterback of the 2025 Miami Hurricanes. Go Dawgs. @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social

It makes me genuinely anxious to be adding up all those tax line items

If it was a non-hotel expense I wouldn't need one either but something about how the hotel itemization works requires it and it is killing me