Follow stories on Costco and big-box stores; Amazon and bookstores; Starbucks and food and beverage retailers; Nordstrom and department stores; REI, Nike, Blue Nile and Coinstar. Also covered are grocery stores (PCC, Safeway, QFC, Fred Meyer, Kroger, Haggen); consumer spending, restaurants, fast food, clothing, e-commerce, auto sales, hotels, airlines, sales tax, credit cards and Black Friday.
Shoppers, newly vaccinated, are emerging from their homes and going out again, and that, along with government stimulus payments, is helping to boost fiscal first-quarter...
Richard Montañez built a lucrative second career out speaking and writing about being an underdog whose ingenuity conquered the corporate world in a rags-to-riches fable...
A proxy firm is recommending that Amazon investors vote in favor of an independent audit of the company's impacts on civil rights, equity, diversity and...
Walmart said Friday that it won’t require vaccinated shoppers or workers to wear a mask in its U.S. stores, unless state or local laws say...
Americans are trying to figure out what the new federal guideline on fully vaccinated people not needing masks in most cases means for businesses and...
Now that consumers have accepted meatless meat, eggless eggs, and milkless milk, Seattle-based Atomo aims to popularize coffeeless coffee. Atomo's coffeeless coffee is made from...
Target has suspended in-store sales of sports and Pokemon trading cards, citing safety concerns. The move comes after police in Brookfield, Wis., reported that four...
Many of the country's largest retailers will keep requiring masks in their stores despite the CDC's eased national restrictions, though industry groups and workers' advocates...
The rising wages represent a slow but steady march toward a goal that lawmakers and labor activists have pursued for years, with limited success: a...
Companies are rushing to assess their mask policies after a sudden announcement by U.S. officials put newly relaxed federal guidelines in conflict with the rules...
