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 ...

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 ...

In the main language for the Philipines, Sari-Sari means variety and Nick’s Sari-Sari store on South Craycroft certainly has that. There’s a wide range of food from the Philippines and much of ...

Most recently, when attending an award ceremony in Mumbai, she turned to a Raw Mango drape. The jamuni purple satin silk sari is from Raw Mango’s ‘Garland’ Festive 2024 collection. Called the Gulkhera ...

Dressed in a custom sari paired with a rare 1990 Vivienne Westwood corset, Radhika fused desi and videshi elements. It’s not her first time in the rodeo, as the Ambani bahu has previously worn an ...

“We made a silk shawl for Chinese president Xi Jinping, and it was presented to him by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Chinese president's visit to the country in 2019,” says N ...

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.