Dee-Ann Durbin

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  • Sour Patch Kids, Oreos, and Cadbury chocolate, is displayedFinance

    Gen Z fueling limited-time flavors like Sour Patch Kids Oreos and pink lemonade-flavored Kit Kats as brands bid to stay relevant and distinct

    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. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in a case filed by Starbucks against the National Labor Relations Board. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File)Finance

    Starbucks heads to Supreme Court in case against top U.S. labor board that forced it to rehire 7 workers who were trying to unionize

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • McDonald'sPolitics

    McDonald’s just bought out its Israeli franchisee of more than 30 years, taking over 225 restaurants for undisclosed terms

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • JB Smoove and Joseph EinhornRetail

    ‘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)Retail

    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
  • CandyRetail

    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)Success

    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 McMullenRetail

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

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • FlowersRetail

    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)Success

    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 KeithSuccess

    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)Lifestyle

    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)Success

    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
  • ShopperPersonal 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)Lifestyle

    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