Dee-Ann Durbin

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JB Smoove and Joseph Einhorn

‘We can get you anything’: A $1,000-a-month power shopping app that offers rare art and private islands is the latest example of retailers leaning in on memberships

By Anne D'Innocenzio, Dee-Ann Durbin, and others

An employee dressed as Chuck E. Cheese holds a flyer advertising new memberships at a location Wednesday, March 13, 2024, in San Diego. Paid loyalty programs are all the rage in the restaurant and retail world. Looking for reliable sales in an unpredictable spending environment, more companies have extended their points-based loyalty tiers to making their most dependable customers feel valued for an up-front fee. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Businesses from Chuck E-Cheese and Target to luxury app Long Story Short are adding paid loyalty programs to make their big spenders feel special—and spend more

By Anne D'Innocenzio, Dee-Ann Durbin, and others

Candy

Big candy befuddled by Gen Z’s love for sour gummies, scrambles for plan to get Americans chewing gum again

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

An Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC facility is seen, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, in Cartersville, Ga. Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch has reached a contract agreement with the Teamsters union that avoids a strike at its U.S. plants. The union had threatened a strike at the brewer’s 12 U.S. plants if an agreement on a new five-year contract wasn’t reached by 11:59 p.m. EST Thursday. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Anheuser-Busch has reached a new 5-year contract deal with the Teamsters to avoid a massive strike at its 12 U.S. plants

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

Rodney McMullen

Lina Khan’s FTC sues to block $24.6 billion grocery megamerger between Kroger and Albertsons

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

Flowers

Walmart, supermarket data prove it: Valentine’s Day is for the procrastinators

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

FILE – In this Feb. 9, 2021 file photo, a passer-by walks past a sign offering directions to an Uber and Lyft ride pickup location at Logan International Airport, in Boston. Thousands of U.S. ride-hailing workers plan to park their cars and picket at major U.S. airports Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, in what organizers say is their largest strike yet in a drive for better pay and benefits. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Thousands of U.S. Uber and Lyft drivers set to park their cars and picket at major airports in Valentine’s Day strike

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

Toby Keith

Dart Container ‘honored’ that Toby Keith ‘chose the iconic Solo cup as a sign of good times’ in tribute to stomach cancer victim

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

Selman Careaga, president of Coca-Cola’s Global Category, reaches for Coca-Cola Spiced, the beverage company’s new offering in North America in three years, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Coke swings for its own Flamin’ Hot moment with Spiced Raspberry flavor: ‘If you go to the aisles, you’ll see the amount of spiciness has gone up’

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 08: SAG-AFTRA members chant outside Paramount Studios on day 118 of their strike against the Hollywood studios on November 8, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. A tentative labor agreement has been reached between the actors union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) with the strike set to end after midnight. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Union membership just hit a record low as 2023’s ‘hot labor summer’ can’t reverse a generational decline

By Irina Ivanova, Dee-Ann Durbin, and others

Shopper

Personal Finance

The dark side of the $30 billion holiday gift card industry: So much money unspent

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

FILE – Mike Grgich of Grgich Hills Estate, pours his Paris Tasting anniversary Chardonnay during Auction Napa Valley in St. Helena, Calif., on May 31, 2013. Grgich, a celebrated winemaker who helped establish Napa Valley as one of the world’s premier wine-making regions, has died. He was 100. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Mike Grgich, Croatian immigrant who put Napa Valley on the world’s wine map in the ‘Judgement of Paris’, dies at 100

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

File – Advocates for a union for Starbucks employees watch as company founder Howard Schultz leaves a hearing after testifying to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee at the Capitol in Washington on March 29, 2023. Starbucks says it’s committed to bargaining with unionized workers and reaching labor agreements next year. The move Friday is major reversal for the coffee chain after two years fighting the unionization of its U.S. stores. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

After 2 years fighting its union, Starbucks says it wants to restart bargaining and reach a contract agreement in 2024

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

McDonald's

McDonald’s is launching a Starbucks and Dunkin’ killer called ‘CosMc’s’ with drinks like the churro frappe, pear-flavored slush and turmeric latte

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press

FILE – Starbucks employees and supporters link arms during a union election watch party Dec. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, N.Y. Thousands of U.S. Starbucks workers plan to walk off the job Thursday — one of the chain’s busiest days of the year — to protest the company’s anti-union stance. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File)

Thousands of Starbucks workers at over 200 U.S. stores are set to go on a one-day strike

By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press