Data from tech startup Packworks reveals that rising prices of "sin" products – cigarettes and alcohol – took a bite out of sales in 2024, leaving both store owners and consumers feeling the pinch.

Celebrated Filipino designer Sari Lazaro returns to Power Plant Mall with a fresh summer collection and her second pop-up store, now open through April 29. Lazaro, who first had a pop-up at the same ...

CIGARETTES and alcohol sold less in sari-sari stores, a tech startup reported. "Sari-sari stores saw a decrease in sales of cigarettes despite the Bureau of Internal Revenue lowering the floor price ...

Packworks said sari-sari store sales of Tanduay rum decreased by 17 percent, resulting in a GMV of P102 million last year from P124 million in 2023. Sales of Emperador brandy fell by 22 percent to ...

using data from its mobile sari-sari store app and business intelligence tool Sari IQ, revealed a notable decline in the sales of cigarette brands Marlboro, Mighty and Winston. The three cigarette ...

Samantha Ruth Prabhu, who was styled by Prayag Menon last evening, wore a kamarbandh with her Krésha Bajaj sari. Kamarbandhs have been part of Indian attire for centuries, especially during weddings ...

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JuJu Watkins is a guard who plays for the USC Trojans, a team that competes in the Big Ten Conference. She is in her sophomore year, as of March 2025. She joined the Trojans in 2023 and set the ...

A glance through her tasting notes will reveal notations such as “my grandmother’s old sari box" for a tangy, pungent wine or “her father’s cupboard" for a bottle that had hints of tobacco.

We might pilot it in Cebu because that’s where sari-sari store owners are big and, of course, it’s a city. So, we want to see the effect of our program,” Roque said adding she already spoke ...