As the holiday season gets underway, Americans are preparing to spend big on baking ingredients. Butter consumption, for example, grew 16% last November and December compared to the rest of 2023, according to
Starbucks workers’ strikes expanded on Saturday to include stores in Denver; Philadelphia; Pittsburgh and Columbus, Ohio, Union leaders said. Starbucks Workers United, the union that has organized workers at 535 company-owned U.S. stores
More than one million delivery drivers collectively paid more than $10 million in fees after Walmart and Branch Messenger illegally opened costly deposit accounts in their names without consent, the Consumer Financial Protection
PUERTO JIMÉNEZ, Costa Rica — The endangered Geoffrey’s spider monkeys that dangle high in the rainforest canopy are elusive and hard for scientists to track. So biologist Jenna Lawson hid 350 audio monitors
Government safety regulators said Monday they have closed an investigation into two previous recalls of the Ford Focus after determining that Ford Motor Co. has satisfied its concerns. In 2018, Ford recalled around
The Container Store said the bankruptcy process will have no impact on customers and that it will keep all 102 of its U.S. locations open. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Smith
A Walmart truck pulls out of a Walmart Distribution Center in Hurricane, Utah, on May 30, 2024. George Frey | Afp | Getty Images The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a complaint Monday
Homebase is to live on as a brand online and within up to 70 former stores reopened next year as branches of the Range, its new owner has announced. CDS said it would
Century-old department store Nordstrom has agreed to be acquired and taken private by Nordstrom family members and a Mexican retail group in a $6.25 billion deal that comes as department stores are facing
American consumers are feeling less confident in December, a business research group says. The Conference Board said Monday that its consumer confidence index fell back in December to 104.7 from 112.8 in November.