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Black Friday brought crowds to the Citadel Outlets on the day after Thanksgiving, Nov. 26, 2021 in Los Angeles

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Black Friday lacks luster as pandemic shopping habits stick

The supply-chain crisis and COVID fears seemed to hold shoppers back, as Black Friday 2021 came and went without major discounts or huge crowds.
An Amazon logo appears on an Amazon delivery van, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, in Boston. Amazon said Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, that it bought 11 jets from Delta and WestJet airlines to boost its growing delivery network and get orders to shoppers faster. The company said it’s the first time it purchased planes for its delivery network. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Amazon’s $4-billion holiday fix: Half-empty trucks, $3,000 bonuses

This April 16, 2020 photo shows a real estate company sign that marks a home for sale in Harmony, Pa. U.S. new home sales plunged 15.4% in March as the lockdowns that began in the middle of the month began to rattle the housing market. The Commerce Department reported Thursday, April 23, that sales of new single-family homes dropped to a seasonally ajdjusted annual rate of 627,000 last month after sales had fallen 4.6% in February. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Fewer people can afford to buy houses. Home builders hope they’ll choose to rent them instead

FILE - In this July 14, 2021 file photo, pedestrians pass the Macy's store in the Downtown Crossing shopping area, in Boston. Americans cut back on their spending last month as a surge in COVID-19 cases kept people away from stores. Retail sales fell a seasonal adjusted 1.1% in July from the month before, the U.S. Commerce Department said Tuesday, Aug. 17. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

U.S. consumer spending powers ahead despite inflation pickup

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FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2015 file photo, Hello Barbie is displayed at the Mattel showroom during the North American International Toy Fair in New York. The toy records and stores conversations between kids and their dolls to improve speech-recognition technology and help its makers create more relevant automated responses for kids. Parents concerned about privacy can review and delete those conversations by visiting a website. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Is your Christmas present spying on you? How to assess gifts’ privacy risks

Elizabeth Holmes, center, walks into federal court in San Jose, Calif., Monday, Nov. 22, 2021. Holmes is accused of duping elite financial backers, customers and patients into believing that her startup was about to revolutionize medicine. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)

Elizabeth Holmes makes her case to the jury in Theranos fraud trial

FILE - This Friday, Aug. 23, 2019 file photo shows the Instagram app icon on the screen of a mobile device in New York. Celebrities including Kim Kardashian West, Katy Perry and Leonardo DiCaprio are taking part in a 24-hour “freeze” Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020 on Instagram to protest against the failure of the social media platform's parent company, Facebook, to tackle misinformation and hateful content. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Multiple states investigating Instagram over efforts to get children active on its platform

FILE - This June 13, 2013 file photo shows the Activision Blizzard Booth during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Video game maker Activision Blizzard is laying off nearly 800 workers as the company braces for a steep downturn in revenue following the best year in its history. The cutbacks announced Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019, illustrate the boom-and-bust cycles in an industry whose fortunes are tied to video games that can have a relatively short lives before players move on to the next craze. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Commentary: Activision Blizzard will be forever stained if current leadership stays in place

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Clad in concrete, the three-story home is protected by steel gates and a steel front door.

Henry Rollins is selling his industrial compound in Hollywood Hills

Serena Shi makes a sales presentation in Beijing for condos at her proposed Coachella resort in November 2015.
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At the heart of the home, there’s a voluminous atrium under 35-foot mahogany vaulted ceilings.

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HOLLYWOOD CA OCTOBER 20, 2021 - Employees and allies at Netflix walkout in protest of Dave Chappelle special on October 20, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. Netflix has decided to air Chappelle's special, which contains jokes about transgender people, even though some employees have voiced concerns they feel have been ignored by the company. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Former Netflix employees, who criticized Chappelle special, withdraw labor complaint

Two former Netflix employees withdrew an accusation they lodged with the National Labor Relations Board that alleged the streamer tried to stop them from speaking up about working conditions.

The Pandemic Economy

This image provided by Pfizer shows its COVID-19 pills. Drugmaker Pfizer said Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, it is submitting its experimental pill for U.S. authorization, setting the stage for a likely launch in coming weeks. (Pfizer via AP)

Pfizer, U.S. sign $5-billion deal for 10 million treatment courses of COVID-19 pill

The U.S. government will pay Pfizer $5.29 billion for 10 million treatment courses of its experimental COVID-19 drug if regulators authorize it.

Thanksgiving air travel is expected to rebound to pre-pandemic levels, TSA says

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA-NOVEMBER 28, 2019: Santa and "Bullseye" pass by people waiting for the Target in Carson to open for Black Friday on November 28, 2019, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo By Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

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What’s open, what’s closed on Thanksgiving and Black Friday

As Target puts a permanent end to Thanksgiving in-store shopping, plenty of other retailers are open. And Black Friday shopping starts early.
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How to find (and survive) a Buy Nothing group

Illustration by Michelle Rohn, for the Times to go with a story about being a parent to a child actor. Part of a series of stories about how to make it in Hollywood.

Explaining Hollywood: Your child wants to act. What do you need to know?

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: An estate planning portfolio, October 27, 2020. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Where should you keep your estate planning documents?

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How a fee-only financial planner differs from a fee-based one

LOS ANGELES, CA-JUNE 14, 2019: Senior Librarian Ana Campos looks for a book that might not have been available to them five years prior in the International Languages Department at the Central Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library on June 14, 2019, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo By Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

Your L.A. Public Library Card comes with free New York Times access and other extras

LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 28: A "For Sale" sign is posted at a home on August 28, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. According to reports single-family home prices rose more than expected in June for the fifth consecutive month. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, CM - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD **

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