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This towel weighs 11.0 lbs. per dozen and has a nice dobby border finish. This is a great towel if you are buying quantities and are looking to save money. $6.76 and up Feature Video Coastal Beach Towel DC Attorney General Files Antitrust Suit Against Amazon Karl Racine says the e-commerce leader illegally controls online prices. Karl Racine, attorney general for the District of Columbia, has sued Amazon on antitrust grounds, alleging that the e-commerce corporation manipulates online prices to eliminate competition. Racine asserts that Amazon’s tactics have led to price hikes that are unfair for consumers and that thwart innovation. BREAKING: Today my office filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon for illegally abusing and maintaining its monopoly power by controlling prices across the online retail market and violating DC law. — AG Karl A. Racine (@AGKarlRacine) May 25, 2021 Filed in Washington, D.C. Superior Court, the lawsuit asserts that Amazon has used contract terms to prohibit third-party sellers on its online marketplace from selling their products for lower prices on other platforms, thereby leveraging a monopoly power. The practice manipulates pricing in the online commerce arena, making prices higher than they would be if fair market conditions were able to prevail, according to the attorney general’s office. At the end of the day, Amazon’s imposed agreement on third-party sellers hurts consumers and the sellers themselves by stifling choice, innovation and competition, Racine maintains. Following some scrutiny, Amazon in 2019 removed a clause in its business solutions agreement, which third-party sellers must agree to in order to sell on the platform, that barred sellers from offering their wares on competitors’ web marketplaces for lower prices than what they sell for on Amazon. Still, Racine says Amazon just replaced that clause with another that has essentially the same effect. Referred to as the “fair pricing policy,” the clause empowers Amazon to “impose sanctions” on sellers that retail their products at a lower price elsewhere online. Racine’s aim with the lawsuit is to get Amazon to stop enacting what he describes as its illegal price manipulation practices. He’s also seeking damages and penalties. Beyond being an e-commerce marketplace, Seattle-headquartered Amazon functions as a multinational technology whose business activities touch everything from cloud computing and artificial intelligence, to entertainment. In the first quarter of 2021, Amazon increased revenue by 44% year over year to $108.5 billion . Over roughly the last decade, Amazon has grown into a source of concern and opportunity for the $20.7 billion North American promotional products industry. Certain promo companies actively sell on the platform, generating what some have described as good returns. Still, developments that include Merch by Amazon , a service that enables users to online-order custom-fit T-shirts with personalized labels, and an on-demand apparel manufacturing system have caused some branded merchandise pros to view Amazon as a major competitive threat to the promotional products industry. Read More 12 Tips to Beat Back-to-Normal Anxiety Mental health experts deliver strategies for managing stress associated with returning to a ‘post-pandemic’ world. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Eric Johnson was a road warrior. Now, the prospect of returning to frequent travel fills the vice president of sales and development at Minnesota-based promotional products supplier with something not far from dread. “I’ve become comfortable with my new lifestyle – with being at home with my wife and doing things with her,” Johnson admits. “Plus, the technology we’ve come to rely on during the pandemic enables us to do our jobs very effectively. Having to cover the high cost of travel is a concern too.” Johnson is among the people in the promo industry and beyond experiencing what some mental health experts have come to call “back-to-normal” anxiety or “post-pandemic” anxiety. Put basically, this is a sense of discomfort, worry and/or distress associated with the reopening of society and return to something like what life was like prior to the outbreak of COVID-19. The phenomenon has been increasingly experienced as vaccination rollouts accelerate, restrictions on businesses and events loosen or lift, and as more companies look to return workers to some level of in-office work. The sense of anxiety can vary from mild to severe, ranging from some who feel occasional nagging worry to those experiencing near crippling fear for everything from their health to social phobia related to interacting in person with people again. Mental health experts say that it’s normal to experience such emotions, especially given the stressors and outright trauma of the past year of pandemic and the uncertainty that comes with how things will go in the months ahead as routines established during the hunkering down of COVID are subject to change. But while the worry is normal, it doesn’t mean you’re powerless against it. “Anxiety thrives in the unknowns and ‘back-to-normal’ anxiety is just that, an unknown,” says Dr. Geri-Lynn Utter (pictured). “However, there are ways to manage this anxiety.” “The expectation is that we’re to ‘go back to normal’ and readapt and readjust to a whole new world, post-COVID,” says Dr. Geri-Lynn Utter , a clinical psychologist who specializes in working with individuals diagnosed with both substance use disorders and severe mental illness. Utter continued: “This adaptation can be scary, anxiety-provoking. But what’s fascinating about human beings is our ability to adapt. We may feel anxious and fearful, but the vast majority of us will adapt to whatever the ‘new normal’ may be. Anxiety thrives in the unknowns and ‘back-to-normal’ anxiety is just that, an unknown. However, there are ways to manage this anxiety.” Indeed, here are 12 strategies from mental health professionals to help you do just that. 1. Develop a post-pandemic life plan. This can bring a sense of focus and clarity that helps dispel or lessen the uncertainty where anxiety breeds. It can include planning to retain, where feasible, elements of pandemic life that you’ve come to enjoy, from simple things like continuing to have groceries delivered, to more complicated ones like keeping your commitments and to-do list lighter. Amanda Stemen recommends that you develop this plan in line with your personal values. “If that includes maintaining a slower pace of life and/or spending more quality time with a close circle of loved ones, make choices that continue to support that,” advises Stemen, a licensed therapist and owner of FUNdaMENTAL Growth , a therapy, coaching and consulting business in Los Angeles. “The choices might be difficult, such as quitting a job or not reconnecting with certain friends, but ultimately the more we live in line with our values the less anxiety we’ll experience overall.” 2. Engage in journ...