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This one private equity firm owns over a dozen of your favorite restaurants
From Subway to Arby's to Dunkin', Roark Capital Group owns almost 20 major US restaurant chains.
Alex Bitter
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Hollywood trainer Tracy Anderson's famous 'method' is 'uncopyrightable,' a judge ruled
A judge made the ruling in the case of a lawsuit Tracy Anderson brought against one of her former t…
Katie Warren,Natalie Musumeci
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Costco sells a surprising variety of gold and silver – we counted 17 different items
Costco has made headlines selling Swiss and South African gold bars, but its precious metals offeri…
Dominick Reuter
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There's a silver lining to California's $20 fast-food wage, restaurant bosses say: it's attracting better workers
But the effects of this could be short-lived, as other businesses are expected to boost wages to co…
Grace Dean
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The math is looking good for Walmart's automated warehouses
Walmart now has 15 of its 42 distribution centers with some level of automation, and those numbers …
Dominick Reuter
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Sorry Grimace, McDonald's doesn't care about your birthday this year
Grimace made a comeback in 2023 when McDonald's released a purple shake to celebrate his birthday. …
Grace Dean
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We finally have some evidence that California's new $20 fast food wage is hurting business
New data shows that foot traffic to California fast-food chains declined in April and May after the…
Grace Dean
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Gen Zers are obsessed with Aritzia's $148 Effortless Pant. Uniqlo's 'work uniforms' are Asia's budget answer to it — at a fraction of the price.
Uniqlo has positioned itself as the maker of Asia's unofficial "work uniform," and its basic fits h…
Aditi Bharade
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Amazon Fresh is trying to remind customers it's not just a fancy returns point
Amazon Fresh is offering discounts on groceries for people who use the stores to make returns throu…
Alex Bitter
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I tried on similar tops at Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy. I'm done assuming big names with the highest prices have the best products.
With all that in mind, I was curious to see which retailer would impress me most and offer the best…
Chloe Caldwell
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A Chick-fil-A in Louisiana is doing a $35 'summer camp' where kids see what it's like to work at the restaurant
The Chick-fil-A location is one of several that host the three-hour events where kids age 5 to 12 g…
Dominick Reuter
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Starbucks is copying the fast-food value playbook with its new $5 and $6 breakfast combos
Bundling has long been a standard practice in the fast-food industry, but it's a surprise move for …
Grace Dean
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Inside the astonishing, improbable resurrection of Abercrombie & Fitch
Abercrombie & Fitch has turned itself around to become the darling of millennial women and Wall Str…
Emily Stewart
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I'm a Costco forklift driver. My job is essential to the warehouse's success.
A Costco forklift driver in Chicago reveals what the job is like, and why he's not surprised Costco…
Dominick Reuter
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Ikea was losing 60,000 employees a year. Here's how the retailer worked to fix its staff turnover problem.
Ikea tackled high employee turnover rates by increasing wages and offering workers more flexibility…
Erin Snodgrass
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One potential reason Costco's Kirkland Signature products win over shoppers? The CEO signs off on every new item.
Costco's private-label brand enjoys some die-hard fans and accounts for nearly a quarter of the com…
Dominick Reuter
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3 big trends are working in Walmart's favor
Walmart is enjoying a flywheel with inflation bringing in new customers, digital customers leading …
Dominick Reuter
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Diners are cutting back on weekday meals out so that they can spend more on the weekends instead, a restaurant CEO says
Jim Holthouser said GoTo Foods' most frequent customers were "hanging in there" but overall the ave…
Grace Dean
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Zyn shortages continue. But the popular nicotine pouches will be back on more shelves later this year, an executive says.
Zyn's parent company is adding a US factory next year to expand local production.
Shubhangi Goel
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I visited Wayfair's first-ever physical store in Chicago. Take a look.
It's not every day that a $7.25 billion e-commerce brand takes the plunge into physical retail, so …
Dominick Reuter
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Starbucks' Howard Schultz talks Steve Jobs screaming at him and wishing he'd trademarked the latte in a new podcast
Starbucks legend Howard Schultz shared how Bill Gates' dad helped him buy the coffee chain, and how…
Theron Mohamed
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TGI Fridays may have found a surprising solution to its struggling business
TGI Fridays called the new hotel-based restaurant "core to the brand's transformation strategy" aft…
Lauren Edmonds
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I've worked at Costco for 18 years. Here are 10 of the best things I'm seeing on the shelves this month.
Like many fans of Costco, the leading retailer in customer satisfaction, I love browsing the shelve…
Veronica Thatcher
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The Walmart heirs have added more than $53 billion to their combined net worth this year — second only to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
The heirs to Walmart founder Sam Walton have seen their wealth balloon as the company's stock price…