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.
Amazon's reputation depends on delivering orders on time. The e-commerce giant has been working to cut its delivery time to for its Prime members. Other...
The dystopian novel about a totalitarian surveillance state appears alongside avocados, Alexa-enabled devices and Amazon Originals shows on the company's list of the most popular...
Food-truck cuisine has been showing up at hotels and business meetings as conference organizers aim to give a group a taste of local fare, but...
For the 21st consecutive year, Pantone has named a color of the year, a trend-forecasting stunt as closely watched by the news media as it...
New York City lawmakers are considering a ban on paper receipts coated with the chemical BPA and a requirement that retailers offer emailed receipts instead...
Ballast Point was famously bought for $1 billion four years ago by Constellation Brands, whose Chicago-based beer business owns the American rights to top Mexican...
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of Americans who rely on the federal food stamp program will lose their benefits under a new Trump administration rule...
The 30-second ad, which features a man giving a woman a Peloton Bike for the holidays, inspired parodies on social media and comparisons to “Black...
The company is opening a location in China about every 15 hours, with an ultimate goal of adding about 600 new cafes this year to...
Consumers spent an average of $361.90 between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, a 16 percent increase from last year.
