Americans Want to Travel and Are Eager to Splurge, Companies Say
More consumers are hitting theme parks, dining out and booking hotel rooms. ‘There is a lot of pent-up demand for...
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On Valentine’s Day, Expect to Pay Up if You Want Red Roses
Flower sellers say they are asking price-conscious shoppers to consider less-traditional Valentine’s Day bouquets, including shorter-stemmed roses, not-red roses or...
The Hidden Ways Companies Raise Prices
Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises Inc., a Chicago-based restaurant group, has added a 3% “processing fee” to checks at many of...
Walmart Drops Its Mask Rules for Vaccinated Workers
Walmart previously required all U.S. staff to wear masks and requested shoppers wear masks in some areas. Photo: EDUARDO MUNOZ/REUTERS...
Why High Gasoline Prices Could Stick Around for a While
Americans are paying about twice as much for gasoline now as they were early in the Covid-19 pandemic. And the...
Toshiba Looks to Split Two Ways Instead of Three
TOKYO— Toshiba Corp. TOSYY 0.92% revised its restructuring plan and said it wants to split into two parts instead of...
U.S. Jobs Surged by 467,000 in January as Economy Weathered Omicron
U.S. employers hired at a rapid pace late last year and in January, bolstering the economy in the face of...
Amazon Profits Show Resilience Even as Labor, Supply Crunch Weigh on Results
Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -7.81% said profits nearly doubled in the critical holiday period, as the company managed to control labor...
Bed Bath & Beyond Decluttered Its Stores and Ended Up Frustrating Shoppers
Those moves, led by Chief Executive Officer Mark Tritton, ended up making the home-goods chain vulnerable to supply-chain problems that...
What CEOs Are Saying About Inflation: ‘The World Has Changed’
This is what some of the world’s corporate leaders said on their quarterly earnings calls this week about what they...
The Mentors Who Helped Ulta Beauty’s Unlikely CEO Succeed
In Personal Board of Directors, top business leaders talk about the people they turn to for advice, and how those...
Shopify Denies Allegations in Textbook Pirating Lawsuit
Shopify Inc. SHOP 6.92% denied that it is liable for alleged copyright and trademark infringement by online sellers using its...
SoftBank COO Marcelo Claure to Leave as Stock Hits a Rough Patch
SoftBank Group Corp. 9984 2.20% said Chief Operating Officer Marcelo Claure, who helped clean up problems at the firm’s investments...
Kroger Workers Approve New Contract After Nine-Day Strike
More than 8,000 workers at Kroger Co. KR -3.12% ’s King Soopers grocery stores ratified a new three-year contract following...
WSJ News Exclusive | Ford Shuts Off Orders for New $20,000 Maverick Pickup
Ford F -1.26% Motor Co. is taking the unusual step of cutting off customer orders for the Maverick, a more-affordable...
Winter Olympics Sponsors Caught Between Beijing, U.S.
With less than two weeks to go before the start of the Winter Games in Beijing, several Olympics sponsors are...
U.S. Retail Sales Fell 1.9% in December
U.S. retail sales dropped by 1.9% in December as the Covid-19 Omicron variant and inflation surged, damping the end of...
Monster Beverage Buys Owner of Craft Breweries Cigar City, Oskar Blues for $330 Million
Monster Beverage Corp. MNST 0.41% has been mulling a move into booze for years. It finally took the plunge Thursday,...
Grocery Stores Cut Hours, Services as Omicron Infects Workers
Some U.S. supermarkets are reducing hours and cutting services as Covid-19’s Omicron variant infects cashiers, baggers and stockers, deepening grocery...
China’s Startups Are Awash With Money as Beijing Shifts Focus to ‘Hard Tech’
Unlike in previous years, when most Chinese tech funding went to internet startups in e-commerce, the bulk of the money...
