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Walmart keeps growing with shoppers making more than $100,000 a year
Walmart’s business is surging. Customers making more than $100,000 a year are fueling the growth.
Tropicana fans are ditching the brand after a bottle redesign
Tropicana customers are in revolt over an orange juice bottle redesign. Again.
McDonald’s customers are cutting back on fries. Its biggest supplier is cutting jobs
Americans are revolting against McDonald’s and fast-food chains. That’s hurting french fry suppliers like Lamb Weston.
Target slashed prices. It paid off
US consumers, strained by years of higher prices and elevated interest rates, are changing their shopping patterns. Americans are buying more at discount chains like Target and Walmart while dialing back spending at Macy’s and Lowe’s.
Harley-Davidson is dropping diversity initiatives after right-wing anti-DEI campaign
Tractor Supply Co. John Deere. Now Harley-Davidson. Harley-Davidson said Monday that it’s ending diversity and other progressive initiatives at the company. Harley-Davidson is the latest major American brand to backtrack from DEI policies it had supported in recent years.
Americans are still shopping. They’re just going to Walmart
Americans are cutting back on Disney parks, Big Macs and Starbucks coffee. But they keep shopping at Walmart.
Home Depot issues a warning about the economy
Home Depot says consumers are feeling crummy about the economy, and they’re dishing out less on major home renovation projects.
Starbucks wanted to be the ‘third place.’ Now it’s speeding you out the door
Years ago, some people would spend hours at Starbucks. Today, it’s a takeout counter. At many Starbucks locations, you’re lucky to find anyone sitting down.
Macy’s rejected a takeover offer and is betting on itself
Macy’s management ended talks with private investors attempting to take over the company and will pursue its own turnaround strategy to remake the chain.
Why Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aid are closing thousands of drug stores across America
Walgreens said Thursday that it plans to close a “significant” number of its roughly 8,600 stores in the United States. Around 25% of Walgreens’ stores aren’t profitable, and the chain will look to close stores that are right by one another or struggling to hold down theft, CEO Tim Wentworth said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
