The World Side

Indiana men’s basketball mini packages for holiday season games now on sale



Indiana today announced the five games that will be a part of this season’s mini package for holiday games.

The games are:

Nov. 23 — Little Rock

Nov. 25 — Jackson State

Dec. 20 — Elon

Dec. 23 — Kennesaw State

Jan. 8 — Northwestern


Here is the full release from IU


BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Indiana University men’s basketball program will play five home games during the Holidays and tickets to those games are available through a Mini-Series package offered by the IU Athletics Ticket Office.

Over the Thanksgiving break, the second and third games of the Hoosier Classic will take place when IU hosts Little Rock on Wednesday, Nov. 23 and Jackson State on Friday, Nov. 25. Prior to Christmas, the Hoosiers will face Elon on Tuesday, Dec. 20 and Kennesaw State on Friday,

Read more

2022’s holiday delivery challenge: softening e-commerce demand

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

LOS ANGELES, Sept 19 (Reuters) – FedEx (FDX.N), United Parcel Service (UPS.N) and other delivery firms that fought with too much pandemic-fueled demand from online retailers like Amazon and Walmart, now have the opposite problem – too much delivery capacity.

Online sales started fizzling during last year’s peak delivery season from Thanksgiving weekend through the end of the year. FedEx, UPS and the US Postal Service (USPS) kept adding facilities and staff, even as more consumers returned to in-store shopping and higher food, fuel and rent costs eroded discretionary spending.

Those delivery firms can now handle 110 million holiday packages per day. That could outpace peak season demand by 18 million packages per day, according to Satish Jindel, a consultant whose holiday peak volume forecasts are closely watched by delivery firms.

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

That

Read more

Over half of Americans are planning holiday travel for late-2022

Yahoo Finance’s Kerry Hannon outlines how American travelers are already planning their holiday travel, the best dates to fly, and how to find the best deals in airfare.

Video Transcript

[AUDIO LOGO]

RACHELLE AKUFFO: Well, if you’re hoping to travel for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, you might want to book your flight as soon as possible. Yahoo Finance’s Kerry Hannon joins us now to break down the staggering cost of holiday travel this year. Kerry, as if we needed one more thing to worry about. Break down these numbers for us.

KERRY HANNON: Well, here we go. It’s up, up, and away. We talked to our friends over at Hopper, the travel app, and they have a new survey– a survey out this week that says, hey, guess what? The domestic fares are going to be up roughly 20% from 2019 and 40% from last year. International fares, roughly

Read more