Woman who bought dresses online sent 25,000 ecstasy pills in the post instead - Mirror Online |
- Woman who bought dresses online sent 25,000 ecstasy pills in the post instead - Mirror Online
- Middle-aged woman shocked to receive 25,000 ECSTASY pills worth £450k in the post after buying dresses online - The Sun
- Hybrid shop caters to the modern wedding party - Newsday
| Woman who bought dresses online sent 25,000 ecstasy pills in the post instead - Mirror Online Posted: 27 Sep 2019 10:23 AM PDT A middle-aged couple who mail-ordered two dresses online were surprised to receive a package containing 25,000 ecstasy pills instead. The couple, aged 58 and 59, who live in Austria, had ordered two dresses online from a clothing store in the Netherlands to their home in Linz. They were having breakfast one morning at their when two parcels turned up from the Netherlands, Linz Police said. One contained two dresses. The other - three plastic bags full of pink pills. The woman originally thought the colourful pills were decorative stones.  But on closer inspection, her husband became more suspicious and returned the delivery to their local post office, police asid. The post office reported the delivery to the force, who found the packages contained nearly 25,000 Ecstasy tablets. The force's narcotics department discovered that the tablets' intended destination had actually been Glasgow- 940 miles away from the couple's home in Linz. The police said in a statement: "The originally planned cosy breakfast was quickly over and to the horror of the couple, it turned out that, though one of the packages did contain the two dresses, the second however had 24,800 Ecstasy tablets worth about €500,000 (£442,800). "In the following investigation it turned out that it was a mail misconduct. "The package should have been actually sent from the Netherlands to Scotland." The UK's National Crime Agency and Police Scotland are reportedly investigating, the Austrian police force said. It added; "Understanbly, the Dutch authorities showed great interest in [the] sender of the package." The party drug Ecstasy, known as 'E,' is used for its euphoric effects. Overdoses of the drug, a Class-A illegal substance in the UK, have resulted in deaths.  |
| Posted: 26 Sep 2019 03:37 AM PDT A MIDDLE-AGED couple were shocked to receive 25,000 ecstasy pills in the post after ordering clothing online. The unnamed couple, who live in the northern Austrian city of Linz, had ordered two dresses online from a clothing store in the Netherlands.  1  They were having breakfast one morning at home when two parcels arrived, and on opening them they found that one contained three plastic bags of the pink pills - later estimated to be worth £450,000. The woman, 58, initially thought the class A drugs were decorative stones, but when her husband, 59, looked more closely he became suspicious, and returned the delivery to their local post office. The package was reported to the narcotics department of the city police, who discovered that its intended destination had been Glasgow, which is 940 miles from Linz. The force said in a statement: "The originally planned cosy breakfast was quickly over and to the horror of the couple, it turned out that, though one of the packages did contain the two dresses, the second however had 24,800 Ecstasy tablets worth about €500,000 (£442,800). "In the following investigation it turned out that it was a mail misconduct. "The package should have been actually sent from the Netherlands to Scotland." The incident is now being investigated by Police Scotland and the National Crime Agency. A search warrant was executed out at a property in Glasgow but no arrests have yet been made. A National Crime Agency spokesman said: "This is a live investigation and enquiries are on-going." TWELVE YEARS IN JAILEcstasy is a psychoactive substance - meaning it acts on the central nervous system - and has long been popular as a recreational drug, particularly at electronic and dance music events. Its effects typically include feelings of euphoria and energy that last for three to seven hours followed by a so-called "come down" involving fatigue, anxiety, and depression. Anyone found guilty of importing "schedule I" or "hard" drugs in the Netherlands faces a prison sentence of three to twelve years. The Netherlands is one of the world's largest producers of ecstasy and amphetamines, with the government last year having described the situation as "shameful" and vowed to do more to combat it.
SNOOP TRAGEDYSnoop Dogg's grandson Kai Love dies just 10 days old, reports claim
'STANDING OVULATION'How one misspelled word can give sign a VERY different meaning
SAVED FROM HELLHundreds of kids rescued from Islamic school where they were kept in chains
'LIKE A MADHOUSE'Abuse, violence and terror — inside free love guru Bhagwan's sex cult
TOTAL MONSTERPaedo who raped girlfriend's daughter, 2, whines about 'excessive' jail termSynthetic drugs with an estimated street value of at least €18.9 billion (£16.8 billion) were produced in the country in 2017, according to police reports. A police report at the time criticised the government's response to tackling the problem, saying: "Anti-drug efforts only receive priority when friendly heads of state (the US, France) raise the alarm about the drug industry in the Netherlands." Over 1000 ecstasy pills are discovered in a jigsaw puzzle box in We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Sun Online news team? Email us at tips@the-sun.co.uk or call 0207 782 4368 . You can WhatsApp us on 07810 791 502. We pay for videos too. Click here to upload yours.  |
| Hybrid shop caters to the modern wedding party - Newsday Posted: 27 Sep 2019 01:25 PM PDT Something old, something new, something bought online, something shipped to you. This modern take on the old wedding rhyme aptly describes the business model of Bella Bridesmaids, which opened a new franchise in Huntington this summer. The store, at 30 Gerard St., sells dresses for bridesmaids, mothers of brides and flower girls, but Bella does not have a cash register. All sales occur online. At a time when ecommerce competition is putting a dent in the bridal store business, Bella is blending the online and brick-and-mortar shopping experiences. "They're getting the best of both," said Angela Vomero of Centerport, co-owner of the franchise, along with longtime friend Christine Lyons of Smithtown. Lyons has a background in retail. She was a buyer for a sports equipment store for 15 years before leaving 25 years ago to raise her children, she said. Vomero was a nurse for 37 years before retiring two years ago. After planning three of her children's weddings, and finding it challenging to find suitable bridesmaids' dresses, Vomero decided to team up with Lyons to open the only Bella Bridesmaids franchise on Long Island, she said. The shop, which opened Aug. 1, carries women's sizes from 0 to 30 at prices ranging from $175 to $350. Dresses at the lower prices include those by designers such as Dessy and Wtoo, while garments at "more aspirational price points" are by designers such as Amsale, Monique Lhuillier and Jenny Yoo, said Erin Wolf, who co-owns the chain's parent company, Bella Bridesmaids Franchise Group LLC, with her mother. Because the shops don't carry wedding gowns, they have room to carry bridesmaids dresses from a wider range of designers than traditional bridal shops have, Wolf said. Headquartered in Chicago, Bella Bridesmaids Franchise Group has 58 franchises across the country. Two are in New York — one in Huntington and another in Manhattan. In Bella shops, brides are assigned stylists who help them create "virtual showrooms," which are online accounts that feature the dress styles and colors they select for their weddings. The brides can email links to their bridal parties to access the showrooms. Members of the bridal party come in to Bella shops to try on samples of the dresses the brides have selected. "It's by appointment only. … It's very private, one on one with the whole bridal party," Lyons said. Bella stylists take bridesmaids' measurements to suggest the dress sizes that should be ordered, but the shops do not have in-house alternations departments. Out-of-state bridesmaids can go to Bella shops near them for complimentary fittings. After customers purchase dresses from Bella stores through the virtual showrooms, the shops order the clothing from the designers. The merchandise is shipped to Bella stores or customers' homes two to six months after purchase. Customers may also go to the Bella website to make purchases that aren't connected to stores; there is no difference in price. Last year, 37 percent of bridesmaids bought their wedding attire online, up from 13 percent in 2011, according to The Knot, a wedding resource website in Bethesda, Maryland. That, combined with a move to more casual weddings and the purchase of bridal parties' attire outside of traditional bridal shops, has put pressure on stores. The number of bridal shops nationwide declined by 753, or 10.5 percent, to 6,435 between 2010 and 2018, according to IBISWorld Inc., a market research firm in Los Angeles. But Vomero and Lyons aren't worried, partly because of the online sales aspect of their store, they said. "So, it kind of still gives them that online experience they want," Lyons said. Bella Bridesmaids was founded in 2001. Wolf and her mother, Kathleen Casey, who co-owned Bella's Chicago franchise, acquired the franchise system and incorporated Bella Bridesmaids Franchise Group LLC in 2012. At that time, there were 35 franchises, Wolf said. She declined to disclose the company's annual sales but said that sales at stores open at least one year increased 6 percent in the first half of 2019 compared to the same period last year. Bella is succeeding because it is melding technology in retail with a network of stores and a high level of customer service, she said. "The core value ... is banking on the fact that a bride or groom and their bridal party still value an in-the-flesh experience around the occasion of selecting and shopping for bridesmaid dresses," she said. Retail Roundup is a column about major retail news on Long Island — store openings, closings, expansions, acquisitions, etc. — that is published online and in the Monday paper. To read more of these columns, click here. If you have news to share, please send an email to Newsday reporter Tory N. Parrish at tory.parrish@newsday.com.  By Tory N. Parrish @ToryParrish1 Tory N. Parrish covers retail and small business for Newsday. She has worked at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Observer-Dispatch in Utica, N.Y.  |
| You are subscribed to email updates from "dresses online" - Google News. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | |
0 Yorumlar