{"id":5216,"date":"2025-03-16T11:18:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T07:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=5216"},"modified":"2025-04-16T17:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T13:28:13","slug":"cold-weather-drives-rise-in-sweatshirt-sales-at-aus-merchandise-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/cold-weather-drives-rise-in-sweatshirt-sales-at-aus-merchandise-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold weather drives rise in sweatshirt sales at AUS merchandise shop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Myia Hamed photo&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cold weather drives rise in sweatshirt sales at AUS merchandise shop&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Myia Hamed&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2014 Cold weather in January led to a spike in sweatshirt sales at the American University of Sharjah merchandise shop.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sales Representative Preciosa Quimson said, \u201cMany students who visited the shop left with baggy sweatshirts, as oversized clothing is both fashionable and keeps them warm during the winter months.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Quimson, sweatshirt sales have increased as temperatures have dropped. \u201cBefore, students bought t-shirts, but now sweatshirts are the most popular item,\u201d said Quimson.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn January,\u201d she added, \u201cwe saw the highest sales, during the alumni dinner event.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quimson stated that many students, having grown up in the UAE, consider 21 degrees Celsius cold. &#8220;This is why they turn to AUS merchandise for warmth,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students can visit the shop next to the main building to purchase their sweatshirts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myia Hamed photo&nbsp; Cold weather drives rise in sweatshirt sales at AUS merchandise shop&nbsp; By Myia Hamed&nbsp; UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2014 Cold weather in January led to a spike in sweatshirt sales at the American University of Sharjah merchandise shop.\u00a0 Sales Representative Preciosa Quimson said, \u201cMany students who visited the shop left with baggy sweatshirts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,79],"tags":[33,32,17,46,31,45,48,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-5216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"category-news","9":"tag-aus","10":"tag-campus","11":"tag-community","12":"tag-culture","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-leisure","15":"tag-lifestyle","16":"tag-sharjah-uae"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}