The Associated Press reports that Danielle Schwartz didn't ask for an oil painting of her cat. But she loves the portrait of Stinky that hangs in her upstate New York home, a surprise gift from an unlikely place: an online pet store.
The AP says it's one of the more than 1,000 free paintings that Chewy sends to select customers each week — even during the pandemic — tapping into people's obsession with their fur children and, it hopes, winning customers for life.
In the cutthroat world of online shopping, that....