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Consumer and retail news: 10 things you need to know today
Consumer and retail news: 10 things you need to know today
Marina NazarioJan 8, 2016, 19:58 IST
Karl Lagerfeld attends the Chanel dinner celebrating "No. 5 - The Film" by Baz Luhrmann on Monday, Oct. 13, 2014, in New York.Charles Sykes/Invision/AP
The 82-year-old creative director and designer of Chanel, Fendi, and his namesake brand is reportedly at the center of an investigation by French authorities for allegedly squirreling away up to $22 million through companies based in the U.S., Ireland, and the British Virgin Islands, according to French paper L'Express.
Three months and thousands of tests later, health investigators still can't find the source of the outbreak, which has since sickened 53 people in nine states.
The chicken chain is promoting the new Nashville Hot Chicken with an eight-city food-truck tour, kicking off on Thursday. The food truck will stop in cities and towns with no KFC nearby that all happened to be named Nashville, starting in Nashville Village, Ohio and ending in Nashville Town, North Carolina.
Swiss watchmaker H. Moser & Cie has made a $24,900 mechanical watch that is shaped like the Apple Watch, comes in white gold, and is accompanied by an Apple-style promotional video. According to Hodinkee, a watch blog, only 50 units are being made. The full name of the watch is the Swiss Alp Watch.
Attendees at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Thursday were treated to a more dramatic sight when US Marshals marched onto the show floor to seize allegedly contraband hoverboards. A Chinese company accused of making counterfeit hoverboards was raided and forced out of its booth, according to Bloomberg's Joshua Brustein.
Sony's PlayStation VR will cost $800. That would mean the virtual reality system, which requires a PlayStation 4 to operate, will actually cost roughly double the price of the PlayStation 4 itself, which retails for about $400.
A new "Star Wars" Monopoly game didn't include the film's main character, Rey (Daisy Ridley). According to Hasbro, including her in the game would have been a "spoiler."
After you toss the drone up into the air, you're free to concentrate on whatever you'd like Lily to record video of you doing, thanks the small circular tracker that you can stow away in your pocket or wear on your wrist. Lily stays in constant communication with that tracker, which, along with some clever machine learning technology, allows the drone to always keep you in the shot even as you move around.
The burger chain is among the nation's oldest fast-food companies still in existence, and its packaging has changed drastically through the years. With help from McDonald's, we've compiled images of the chain's takeout bags dating back to the 1950s.