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“You want to be that much more engaging with the community you already built,” says Grossman.
For the last few years, Weight Watchers’ core demographic has been 90% female, with an average age of 38. In the last year, however, they are experiencing growth in a younger demographic, such as women in their 20s and 30s.
“We need to be surprising yet familiar,” explains Grossman, noting that while she wants to attract millennials, the product still needs to appeal to baby boomers.
So far, the changes have paid off. Revenue increased by 14% since last November to $324 million, and Weight Watchers saw its eighth consecutive quarter of member recruitment growth. It now boasts 1.3 million meeting members (an 11% year-over-year increase) and 2 million digital subscribers. Each month, over 1 million m...
So could one, in essence, consume an entire carton of fruit each day? Foster, who tested the new program for the last year, says zero-point foods propel members to add more nutritious items to their diet, with less time spent tracking–and very little risk factor.
Weight Watchers concedes that dipping into the lifestyle market positions them in the same territory as countless fitness and food brands, including South Beach Diet and Diet.com, which delved into the sector years ago. Still, claims Grossman, their chief competitor remains people thinking they can do this themselves.
Weight Watchers currently hosts 15,000 weekly meetings in the U.S. and 32,000 globally. They’re held everywhere, from big, dense cities to remote locations in sparsely populated states like Wyoming.
Moving forward, the company wants to rapidly expand across the U.S., especially in the low-income communities often ignored in the health and wellness space. The plan is to aggressively partner with more community centers to bring their tools to the places that need it most. Approximately two-thirds of Americans are co...
Grossman considers Weight Watchers an “aspirationally accessible brand” with programs and platforms that can span across a diverse subset, no matter what the income, race, or locale.
Weight Watchers’ mission is a bold one, and one that hasn’t been this publicly addressed since Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign. The wellness scene, with all its attention to crystal healing, pricey food delivery startups, or boutique fitness classes, is often criticized for primarily catering to high-income women...
“We are the brand that can bring health and wellness to everyone, and not just a certain few,” declares Grossman.
Weight Watchers is officially in a new era, one in which it sees itself becoming the brand that can boost Americans’ health while also giving it a taste of that wellness lifestyle it very much aspires to. With that, expect everyone from Oprah to social media influencers asking you to “move beyond the scale”–but with fo...
I’ve joked with my friends that in my ideal world, every series finale would end with an abrupt, mid-scene cut to black. A good TV show is a window into a living, breathing, persistent world–one that continues even after the credits roll. When a finale has the gall to put a bow on every situation, it just reminds me th...
As the episode title, “Just Another Day,” suggests, the plot is a bit by-the-numbers for “Eureka”: the Department of Defense has decided to shut the town down (as the main character Jack points out, it’s surprising they’ve waited this long, what with the weekly world-ending catastrophes), but right as everyone’s either...
And it’s all just a little too perfect.
The last 10 minutes of the episode are dedicated to reveals of this sort. Jo’s proposal to Zane was the rare thing that really felt genuine; not only did it cap off that relationship beautifully, but it served as a strong character moment, a counterpoint to Zane’s (rejected) proposal two years ago and a mark of how Jo ...
This was especially true for Holly and Fargo. I’m sure the writers had a much bigger plan for these two–they only found out about their cancellation after the season had already been filmed and were only given one extra episode to wrap it all up–but the constant back-and-forth seemed almost silly. I don’t want to be on...
Eureka is a goofy show with an emotional core that seems to intimidate its writers. They delve into feelings when it’s appropriate, but they only stay there as long as they have to. Even if the writers were rushed into this finale, they didn’t have to rush out of it, quickly tying up every loose end they found. It woul...
The nomination of former banker Ed Clark to head up the Liquor Control Board of Ontario “scares the bejeebers out of me,” OPSEU President Smokey Thomas says.
Finance Minister Charles Sousa has nominated Clark — Premier Kathleen Wynne’s long-time adviser and the driving force behind the partial sell-off of Hydro One and beer and wine in grocery stores — to serve as chair of the LCBO.
“He comes with a lot of experience in private sector as well as in the public sector, frankly, and he’ll be a welcome addition,” Sousa told reporters Thursday.
Clark, who will take the job for a nominal $1-a-year, is the ideal candidate to lead the LCBO through a period of transition and growth, including the start of cannabis sales later this year, Sousa said.
Thomas, whose union represents LCBO workers, said OPSEU will ask Wynne to reconsider the appointment, and to consult with stakeholders like MADD and CAMH on the importance of public control of alcohol and cannabis sales.
Thomas said he’s grateful that LCBO workers have a four-year contract that Clark won’t be able to touch.
However, the man behind several privatization moves by the provincial government is a dangerous person to have at the helm of the LCBO, he said.
“I really question her motivation,” Thomas said of Wynne.
— Fresh from the bank, Clark was appointed to lead a council on government assets.
— The council proposed the partial privatization of Hydro One, a recommendation that Premier Kathleen Wynne endorsed. It remains one of the more controversial steps taken by the Wynne government.
— Clark looked at the LCBO, but did not suggest it be privatized or sold. Instead, he recommended more consumer choice that included beer and wine sales in grocery stores with an emphasis on craft products.
— Clark continued to serve as Wynne’s financial advisor.
— In 2018, Clark was appointed chair of the LCBO and its subsidiary, the Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation.
— At the same time, Wynne announced Clark would lead the province’s efforts to attract a new Amazon headquarters to Toronto.
The emails of top officials at the National Republican Congressional Committee were hacked during the 2018 midterm elections, according to multiple reports that emerged Tuesday.
Committee representatives said thousands of emails in the accounts of four senior aides were hacked and monitored for months in a major breach by an outside entity, Politico first reported. An NRCC vendor alerted the committee to the hack in April, after which the NRCC launched an internal investigation and notified a ...
The hack comes two years after Russian operatives hacked the Democratic National Committee and the email account of Hillary Clinton campaign chief John Podesta during the 2016 presidential campaign. But unlike Podesta’s emails, which were published by WikiLeaks, none of the NRCC officials’ compromised emails have been ...
The hacker was reportedly able to gain access by obtaining the passwords of the officials’ email accounts.
I've told the Hull locals that I have plans to put the brakes on plans to cut 400 police officers from the Humberside force if Iland the job.
As I launched my battle bus as part of my campaign for the job of police and crime commissioner in the region, I said I have a "plan B" to overtake the one agreed by Humberside Police Authority.
About £10 million will be cut from the police budget over each of the next three years. I said that was too fast and could lead to the loss of 436 officers - and 249 of those would be lost from frontline services.
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits was little changed last week, evidence that employers are cutting few jobs.
Weekly applications for jobless aid ticked up 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 295,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, increased to 284,500. Still, that is just 2,000 higher than three weeks ago when the average was at a nearly 15-year low.
Applications are a proxy for layoffs. The very low level of the average is a sign of solid job security.
Growth slowed in the first three months of the year and hiring weakened in March. Yet when applications are low, it suggests employers aren't worried enough to cut jobs. That, in turn, could be a sign the growth slowdown will be temporary.
More Americans are receiving benefits: The number of recipients rose 50,000 to 2.33 million in the week ending April 11, the latest data available. Yet that increase comes after the total fell to a 14-year low in the previous week.
Businesses cut back on hiring in March amid signs that harsh winter weather and cautious consumers weighed on the economy.
Employers added just 126,000 jobs during the month, the fewest in 15 months and snapping a yearlong streak of monthly gains above 200,000. The unemployment rate remained 5.5 percent.
The stronger dollar is also slowing growth. It has made U.S. exports more expensive, cutting into sales and dragging down factory production. Lower oil prices have also caused oil and gas drillers to order less steel pipe and other drilling equipment.
Many Americans, meanwhile, are saving the windfall from lower prices at the pump or using it to pay down debt. Consumer spending, a key driver of the economy, was likely much slower in the first quarter than many economists forecast.
Analysts now expect that the economy grew at a 1 percent annual rate or less in the first three months of this year. That's down sharply from about 3.6 percent in the second half of last year.
If you're not ready to show the world that you're carrying a very expensive laptop, then a rucksack is the way to go. There are of course plenty of rucksacks out there from a number of different manufacturers to suit most needs.
Blacks solution, the Blacks Vertigo is an entry-level bag costing £25 that does a good job offering what most would need without breaking the bank.
Available in black and only black, the bag's lining is bright orange and more importantly waterproof. There are two main compartments plus a soft lined audio pocket for mp3 player, and a soft lined laptop compartment as well, however the latter isn’t padded.
As with other bags on the market, the Veritgo offers holes to lace your headphones through so you can ditch your iPod or MP3 player out of the way, but still use it.
Elsewhere there are lots of small internal pouches, including a stack of pen slots for those who like their share of pencils, pens, and other pointy things.
The back offers probably the best padding we've seen on a bag for a long time with six soft, but firm raised pads to allow plenty of air and comfort on your back.
There is also a waist strap for extra support if you've weighed down the 15 litre bag to the maximum.
As an entry-level bag the Vertigo ticks most of the boxes. However those looking to stow a laptop safely should be warned that the padding is a soft lined pouch rather than anything of any substance.
That said, expect plenty of kids to be carrying these to school for the new term.
The catch? It only comes in a rather boring black.
Henry David Thoreau walked the entire length of Cape Cod three times starting in 1849. Readers often wonder why, and Thoreau answered them in his seminal book Cape Cod, we will let old Henry speak for himself as the rest of this piece are his words.
Wishing to get a better view than I had yet had of the ocean, which, we are told, covers more than two thirds of the globe, but of which a man who lives a few miles inland may never see any trace, more than of another world, I made a visit to Cape Cod in October, 1849, another the succeeding June, and another to Truro ...
Cape Cod is the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts: the shoulder is at Buzzard's Bay; the elbow, or crazy-bone, at Cape Mallebarre; the wrist at Truro; and the sandy fist at Provincetown, — behind which the State stands on her guard, with her back to the Green Mountains, and her feet planted on the floor of the ocea...
On studying the map, I saw that there must be an uninterrupted beach on the east or outside of the fore-arm of the Cape, more than thirty miles from the general line of the coast, which would afford a good sea view, but that, on account of an opening in the beach, forming the entrance to Nauset Harbor, in Orleans, I mu...
We left Concord, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, October 9th, 1849. On reaching Boston, we found that the Provincetown steamer, which should have got in the day before, had not yet arrived, on account of a violent storm; and, as we noticed in the streets a handbill headed, "Death! one hundred and forty-five lives lost at Co...
There were several hundreds of them streaming off over Cohasset common in that direction, some on foot and some in wagons, — and among them were some sportsmen in their hunting-jackets, with their guns, and game-bags, and dogs. As we passed the graveyard we saw a large hole, like a cellar, freshly dug there, and, just ...
You may see the stormy petrel running over the sea, andif the weather is but a little thick, may lose sight of the land inmid-passage.We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches - at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives on the sand, amid the beach-grass and the bayberries, thei...
We went to see the ocean, and that is probably the best place of all our coast to go to. If you go by water, you may experience what it is to leave and to approach these shores; you may see the stormy petrel by the way . . . running over the sea, and if the weather is but a little thick, may lose sight of the land in m...
The Great South Beach of Long Island, which I have since visited, is longer still without an inlet, but it is literally a mere sand-bar, exposed, several miles from the island, and not the edge of a continent wasting before the assaults of the ocean. Though wild and desolate, as it wants the bold bank, it possesses but...
The part in Eastham is called Nauset Beach, and off Wellfleet and Truro the Backside, or sometimes, perhaps, Cape Cod Beach. On the Pacific side of our country also, no doubt, there is good walking to be found; a recent writer and dweller there tells us that "the coast from Cape Disappointment (or the Columbia River) t...
One of the most attractive points for visitors is in the northeast part of Wellfleet, where accommodations (I mean for men and women of tolerable health and habits) could probably be had within half a mile of the seashore. It best combines the country and the seaside. Though the ocean is out of sight, its faintest murm...
The time must come when this coast will be a place of resort for those New-Englanders who really wish to visit the seaside.Most persons visit the seaside in warm weather, when fogs are frequent, and the atmosphere is wont to be thick, and the charm of the sea is to some extent lost. But I suspect that the fall is the b...
The time must come when this coast will be a place of resort for those New-Englanders who really wish to visit the seaside. At present it is wholly unknown to the fashionable world, and probably it will never be agreeable to them. If it is merely a ten-pin alley, or a circular railway, or an ocean of mint-julep, that t...
Read "Cape Cod" and other Thoreau books here.
DIMITRI PAYET will 'probably' stay with West Ham this summer.
Payet arrived at West Ham at the beginning of the season from French club Marseille for just £10million.
However, he has been one of the Premier League's stand-out performers this season with nine goals and 12 assists in 30 league appearances.
And his good form, combined with West Ham's surprise challenge for a Champions League spot, has seen the 29-year-old linked with a £30m move to Barcelona or Real Madrid.
But the French international has reassure Hammers fans that he will most likely be back with the club next season to christen the Olympic Stadium.
"The media are sending me everywhere," Payet said.
"I have had no contact with any other club.
"I signed a long deal with West Ham - I should probably remain there next season.
"It's always a great thing to be Player of the Year at your club, especially when you've been there a short period of time.
"It shows that I've settled down into the team well and the fans and the staff appreciate the work I've been doing."
After being hospitalized following heavy drinking at a party, student Dhairya Dand has created flashing, color-changing LED ice cubes designed to prevent alcohol induced blackouts.
On November 23, student Dhairya Dand landed in the hospital after blacking out due to excessive drinking at an MIT party.
To prevent this problem from happening again, Dand came up with a creative solution — LED ice cubes that are designed to measure the amount of alcohol consumed and warn the drinker when it's time to slow down.
After one drink is consumed, the flashing ice cubes change from green to yellow. After two drinks, the cubes turn from yellow to red — signalling it's time to slow or cease alcohol consumption. If the drinker decides to keep drinking, the transmitter inside the cube sends a signal to their cell phone to text for a desi...
The LED ice cubes are made from an edible gelatin material and contain a microcontroller, IR transceiver and coin cell battery inside.
Dand tested his invention at another party a few short weeks after his hospitalization — and they worked perfectly.
A product such as Dand's LED ice cubes could be an effective solution to curbing the problem of binge drinking.
Binge drinking is prevalent among young adults, with the CDC reporting the majority of binge drinkers range between 18 and 34 years of age. Approximately 80,000 deaths per year are attributed to excessive alcohol use.
William ‘Bill’ Hamner Byers Jr.
William “Bill” Hamner Byers Jr., age 78, passed away unexpectedly on June 4, 2018, at his home in Dewey, Arizona. Bill was born on Aug. 14, 1939, in Marietta, Ohio, to Sophie Zavistowski and William Hamner Byers Sr.
Bill married his beloved Andrea Mack in 1976. They shared the happiest years of their lives together traveling, snowmobiling, jeeping, hanging out with family and friends, and building and running A&B Tool Rental in Wasilla & Palmer, Alaska. Bill worked for Craig Taylor for 15 years, the State Highway Department for fi...
Bill is preceded in death by both his parents. He is survived by his sister, Connie Merrill; children, William H. Byers III (Connie), Robert L. Byers, Christina G. Byers; furry child, P.J.; grandchildren, Justin L. Byers, Janelle M. Byers, Rachel A. Byers and Atarah M. Byers; and great- grandchildren, Makayla A. Byers ...
Family, friends and others whose lives Bill touched, the family asks that donations be made in Bill’s name in lieu of flowers to the American Diabetes Association.
Obituary: Seth William "Bill" Riley Jr.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – The City of Cleveland hired a disgraced former judge who served prison time for beating his wife - despite applications from 15 other candidates for the position.
City administrators contend Lance Mason, a convicted felon, was the most qualified candidate for the job, according to WJW.
Mason pleaded guilty to charges of domestic violence and attempted felonious assault for attacking his wife in 2014. Police said Mason viciously choked, punched and bit the victim. It happened inside a vehicle and was witnessed by the couple's two daughters.

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