Retail

Retail sales for the start of the holiday season saw a weaker than expected increase of 0.3% in November, according to the Commerce Department, missing the 0.8% estimate expected by economists surveyed by Refinitiv and well below October's revised 1.8% increase.

Apple is reinstating mask requirements at all U.S. stores due to a recent spike in COVID-19 cases, the company confirmed on Tuesday.

Kroger Co. KR 0.24% is eliminating some COVID-19 benefits for unvaccinated employees, a move to encourage inoculations as the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate faces legal challenges.

Many residents, specifically in Kentucky, could be without heat, water or electricity in frigid temperatures for weeks or longer, officials warned.

Whole Foods is getting torched on social media over a series of videos appearing to show a location throwing away large amounts of unexpired food

The second Monday of December is a busy day for people rushing to buy last-minute presents

Six Amazon employees working at the 1.1 million square foot facility in Edwardsville, Illinois were killed in the building's collapse on Friday, while another individual remains hospitalized with serious injuries after tornados ripped through the region.

Nearly half of Americans said items were out of stock at stores compared to years past, according to a new Monmouth University poll. Just over 40% said that items they wanted were out of stock online and 34% of respondents had packages that were delayed or went missing.

Celebrity fashion designer Elle B. Mambetov has closed her store in Los Angeles, citing the recent spike in “grab and go” crimes that are taking place.

The recalled mailboxes were sold at Target stores nationwide and through its website from October 2021 to November 2021.

Politically liberal San Franciscans are used to living cheek by jowl with open drug use, feces-infested streets and petty crime. But a surge in home break-ins and brazen shoplifting has some residents feeling that the city they fell in love with is in decline.

A coalition of California restaurants and grocery stores has filed a lawsuit to block implementation of a new farm animal welfare law, adding to uncertainty about whether bacon and other fresh pork products will be much more expensive or in short supply in the state when the new rules take effect on New Year's Day.

Kentucky’s attorney general sent a message Saturday that scam artists and unscrupulous business owners won’t be tolerated as the commonwealth’s residents deal with widespread and devastating tornado damage.

Gift cards are now used in 25% of all scams, to the tune of nearly $500 million worth of fraud since 2018.