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'I made £100,000 of TikTok sales in one day': The business of live shopping

  • Daisy Kelly turned a personal problem into Glow For It — started at her mum’s kitchen table in 2020 and now does £6m a year, with over 40% of sales from TikTok Shop and a single 12‑hour live pulling in £100,000.
  • Small businesses are booming via live shopping — a Wolverhampton butcher sold £8,000 of meat in a three‑hour TikTok live and a jewellery brand jumped from 50 orders a month to 500 a week.
  • Live shopping is exploding (TikTok reports 6,000+ livestreams daily; 30% of shoppers have bought from a live event) but experts warn one‑tap buying can drive impulsive overspending.

How I discovered the truth about the 'herbal' sleeping pills I got hooked on

  • A woman in Scotland bought a supposedly "herbal" sleep aid on Amazon that turned out to be prescription zopiclone—after using it for a year she became dependent, suffered severe withdrawal and says she lost a year of productivity.
  • She spent about £1,100, had an unopened packet tested (confirmed 100% zopiclone), and regulators and Amazon have launched investigations with the listings removed.
  • The story is a warning: prescription sleep drugs like zopiclone are for short-term use, and buying meds online can carry serious addiction and safety risks.

Stitch Fix’s CEO inherited a broken tech darling. He’s fixing it like a traditional retail exec

  • New CEO Matt Baer has shifted Stitch Fix from a “tech disruptor” to a tech-forward apparel retailer, leaning on retail basics like private labels (now ~40% of sales) and broader categories.
  • The turnaround shows early payoff — five straight quarters of year-over-year revenue growth, record $578 revenue per active client, 2.39M active clients, plus new AI try-on and faster private-label design.
  • Big challenges remain: the company slashed $500M in costs, its market value is about $500M (roughly 5% of its peak), and it still has to prove sustainable long-term growth.

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