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  • 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
  • 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)Retail

    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'sRetail

    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)Success

    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
  • People picketing in front of a McDonald's holding signs that read, "We demand $15 & union rights."Success

    Businesses are fighting tooth and nail against a Biden administration rule that would make it easier for millions of Americans to unionize

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • A barista places an iced coffee in the mobile pickup area at a Starbucks location in New York, US, on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Starbucks Corp. spending billions of dollars to shave seconds from the process of making nearly everythingrevamping how it brews each cup of coffee, whips up Frappuccinos and blends the wildly popular cold foam. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRetail

    Starbucks hikes pay for U.S. hourly workers—but excludes union members from some of those raises as tension between the two sides rises another notch

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • CandyRetail

    Halloween candy inflation is downright frightful—again. ‘The price of candy has gotten to be outrageous’

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press
  • File – The Starbucks Workers United logo appears on the shirt of a person attending a hearing in Washington on March 29, 2023. Starbucks sued the union organizing its workers Wednesday, saying a pro-Palestine social media post from a union account early in the Israel-Hamas war angered hundreds of customers and damaged its reputation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Retail

    Starbucks sues union for using its name and logo in a pro-Palestine post—and Workers United sues it back

    By Dee-Ann Durbin and The Associated Press