Carly Olson is a business reporter at the Los Angeles Times covering retail, e-commerce and how the economy affects consumer behavior. She came from the New York Times, where she was a reporting fellow covering breaking news. Before that, she was a business reporting intern for the L.A. Times and an editor at Architectural Digest. She was born and raised in California.
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