NEW YORK, Nov. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The holiday shopping season is here, and Bedsure is getting a head start with incredible Black Friday deals. Discounts are live now on the Bedsure website and offering unbeatable prices on premium home essentials. Plus, starting November 21, Bedsure’s Amazon store will feature up to 52% off select items, making it easier than ever to shop for winter essentials or the perfect holiday gift. Bedsure’s early Black Friday offers let you save big before the holiday rush even begins.

At Bedsure, the brand is committed to delivering exceptional value without sacrificing quality. This Black Friday, shoppers can expect to find top-tier products at unbeatable prices. Check out these must-have deals:

Flannel Fleece Blanket — Starting at $18.37

Bedsure’s classic Flannel Fleece Blanket is the perfect combination of softness and warmth. With over 30 color options and 10 sizes to choose from, it’s versatile enough for any home. The upgraded premium microfiber gives it a buttery soft feel, while maintaining a lightweight and breathable design perfect for year-round comfort. Plus, it’s durable and resistant to fading and shedding, making it a long-lasting favorite.

Sherpa Fleece Wearable Blanket — Starting at $23.99

Want to stay warm without sacrificing freedom of movement? Bedsure’s Wearable Blanket offers just that! Made with flannel and a sherpa lining, it provides ultimate comfort for lounging, watching TV, or enjoying the outdoors. The deep pockets and ribbed cuffs add convenience, and with multiple sizes and colors, it’s an ideal gift for everyone in the family.

Striped Flannel Fleece Blanket — Starting at $11.99

Bedsure’s Striped Fleece Blanket is a crowd favorite, thanks to its perfect balance of comfort and style. This ultra-soft, lightweight blanket is available in 25 colors and 8 sizes, making it a versatile addition to any room. Whether you’re snuggling on the couch or gifting it to someone special, this blanket promises cozy warmth without the bulk.

Vegan Fur Blanket — Starting at $33.99

For those looking to add a touch of elegance to their living space, Bedsure’s Faux Fur Throw Blanket is the answer. Available in brown and gray, this luxurious, ultra-soft throw mimics the feel of real fur without the cost. It’s ideal for adding style to your home or gifting someone special this holiday season. Warm, cozy, and easy to care for — this blanket is sure to become a go-to winter essential.

Don’t Miss Bedsure’s Other Great Deals

In addition to the exceptional discounts on blankets, Bedsure is offering substantial savings on other top-selling categories, including sheets, duvet covers, and comforters, all at unmatched prices. For those with an appreciation for vintage-inspired design, Bedsure introduced a special Marilyn Monroe collaboration collection this year, bringing a touch of retro elegance to your home. Furthermore, www.bedsurehome.com has already launched early Black Friday promotions, offering 20% off all orders from November 5 to November 28, with an additional 10% off orders of $40 or more.

About Bedsure:

Founded in 2016, Bedsure is a leading home textile brand with products sold to over 15 million customers worldwide. Currently, Bedsure has over 50 bestselling home products in 8 countries and has maintained a compound growth rate of 100% for five consecutive years. While Bedsure has grown into a global company with diverse products to meet different customer needs, its focus on comfortable home products and everyday value stays the same. For more information, visit Bedsure’s official website https://bedsurehome.com/, or Amazon shop https://www.amazon.com/bedsure. Stay in touch with Bedsure on social media @bedsurehome.

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PORTAGE, Mich., USA, Nov. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Stryker (NYSE:SYK), a global leader in medical technologies, announced its launch of the next generation of SurgiCount+ within its sponge management portfolio. Now integrated with Stryker’s Triton technology, SurgiCount+ addresses two key challenges: retained surgical sponges and blood loss assessment. Integrating these previously separate digital solutions provides the added benefit of a more efficient, streamlined workflow for hospitals.

Maternal mortality has been rising in the U.S. for decades,1 with approximately 50,000 cases of severe maternal morbidity occurring each year.2 Notably, 70% of pregnancy-related deaths due to hemorrhage are preventable.3 Stryker’s Triton software includes AI technology that can differentiate blood from other fluids and a Bluetooth scale that batch weighs blood-soaked items to help assess blood loss. This provides hospital staff with real-time information to help coordinate the clinical team’s hemorrhage response and make informed patient care decisions.

Surgical sponges continue to be the number one retained surgical item with 88% of retained surgical items occurring with a false correct count.4 For nurses trying to locate a missing sponge in the operating room (OR), that can take up to 10 minutes on average.5 Stryker’s SurgiCount+ software helps address these problems by featuring a wireless reader that counts, tracks and locates surgical sponges in the OR. RFID-tagged sponges enable unique identification, eliminating false-correct duplicate or unknown counts.

“We are committed to helping keep caregivers and patients safe from harm,” said Brandon Jominy, vice president and general manager of Stryker’s Surgical Technologies business. “Integrating our SurgiCount+ and Triton technologies on one platform will set a new industry standard for quantifying blood loss and continuing to help reduce retained surgical sponges in the OR.”

Additionally, recent studies show that nurse burnout is affecting more than half of all U.S. nurses.6 By integrating these two technologies into one solution, it provides additional benefits to hospitals and staff which includes:

Helping save time by standardizing clinical protocols for chartingSimplifying workflows and aggregating case data with backend dataHelping reduce manual data entry errors through real-time EMR integrationTracking and communicating patient information with one seamless workflow

For more information about Stryker’s SurgiCount+ integrated with Triton please visit safeor.com/products/surgicount-triton.

About Stryker
Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. More information is available at stryker.com.

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1. Hoyert DL. Maternal mortality rates in the United States, 2021. NCHS Health E-Stats. 2023. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.15620/cdc:124678

2. Callaghan, W.M., Creanga, A.A. and Kuklina, E.V. (2012) “Severe maternal morbidity among delivery and postpartum hospitalizations in the United States,” Obstetrics & Gynecology,120(5), pp. 1029–1036. doi:10.1097/aog.0b013e31826d60c5.

3. Building U.S. Capacity to Review and Prevent Maternal Deaths. (2018). Report from nine maternal mortality review committees. https://www.cdcfoundation.org/sites/default/files/files/ReportfromNineMMRCs.pdf

4. Gawande, A. A., Studdert, D. M., Orav, E. J., Brennan, T. A., & Zinner, M. J. (2003). Risk factors for retained instruments and sponges after surgery. The New England Journal of Medicine, 348(3), 229–235. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMsa021721 

5. Double-blinded survey of 154 Operating Room Nurses from 154 different facilities across the United States. Data on file internally. Conducted August 2020.

6. Rotenstein, L.S., Brown, R., Sinsky, C. et al. The Association of Work Overload with Burnout and Intent to Leave the Job Across the Healthcare Workforce During COVID-19. J GEN INTERN MED 38, 1920–1927 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-023-08153-z

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Key Findings:

Brands are pumping out more choices than consumers need or want.Consumers streamline their needs spending to enable discretionary spend.Brands and retailers need to revert to EQ and great merchandising.

CHICAGO, Nov. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The Kearney Consumer Institute (KCI), an internal think tank of global strategy and management consultancy Kearney, today released a consumer research report that upends much of the conventional wisdom around brand proliferation, over-reliance on data, and consumer choices. Based on survey data from 14,000 consumers across the US, Europe, and APAC, Keeping Up with the Consumer examines buyers’ unpredictable, seemingly quixotic behaviors, identifies the underlying tension points that explain them, and concludes that brands are massively under-accounting for the human element that drives purchase decisions.

“Brands have more data than ever about consumer demographics, behavior, spending, and opinions. But we still often categorize consumer behavior as ‘unpredictable.’ To understand why, our research found three key consumer tensions that help explain this behavior,” notes KCI lead Katie Thomas. “As options and access grow, consumers’ lives are only getting more complicated. Sometimes we get lost in one side of a narrative, without realizing the strain it puts on consumers.” The research identified the following three friction points:

Options vs. overload: Consumers seem to expect a product that suits each type of skin, diet, or fitness need. Yet, in many major categories, most consumers believe there’s already plenty to choose from—if not too much.

Curation vs. control: Two out of three consumers say they like making all their decisions themselves. But it’s logical that consumers want (and need) some level of curation to make sense of all their options.

Facts vs. feelings: Consumers want to “do their own research” (and they trust themselves more than they trust brands and institutions), but have limited reserves of time, energy, and motivation.

Keeping Up with the Consumer explores consumer shifts since 2016, when the KCI released The Future Consumer. Then, brands were focusing on the power of influence, a socially driven approach centered on “authenticity.” However, as the “influence” approach became more common, it lost some appeal and started to feel less authentic. Meantime, dramatic changes to the consumer landscape—from COVID-19 to political unrest to the emergence of new social media and shopping platforms—helped consolidate this massive shift.

The research suggests that retailers and brands aren’t striking the right balance between facts versus feelings, curation versus control, and too many choices. Noted Thomas, “When retailers and brands balance the tension, applying emotional intelligence and great merchandising, they will better navigate the mindset of the future consumer to address their needs.”

“Here, we see the push–pull between consumers and brands,” Thomas says. “Sometimes brands should lead consumers forward; but sometimes, the better choice is following consumer behavior. The key is understanding the complex, nuanced, and sometimes unexpected tensions that will crop up next.”

Read the full report by clicking this link.

For more information, or to schedule an interview with Katie Thomas or receive a copy of the Keeping Up with the Consumer report, please contact:

MKPR/Meir Kahtan
+1 917-864-0800
mkahtan@rcn.com

About the Kearney Consumer Institute

The Kearney Consumer Institute (KCI) perspective. By leveraging consumer behavior data and insights, the KCI helps generate conversation, and ultimately action, around how to address consumer needs with meaningful benefits.

Using a consumer-first lens the KCI looks at today’s consumer revolution not by thinking about consumers, but by thinking like consumers. Our consumer-centric approach includes simple, precise, plain-language conversations on topics like trends, consumer communities, convenience, loyalty, service, fair pricing, and product development and technologies.

About Kearney
Kearney is a leading global management consulting firm. For nearly 100 years, we have been a trusted advisor to C-suites, government bodies, and nonprofit organizations. Our people make us who we are. Driven to be the difference between a big idea and making it happen, we work alongside our clients to regenerate their businesses to create a future that works for everyone. www.kearney.com

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