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Looking Behind The Headlines On Food Price Increases
Woman cashier in a supermarket, Mendoza Plaza Shopping. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal … [+] Images Group via Getty Images) Universal Images Group via Getty Images There is no bigger sto...
Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are Hours for Easter Monday 2022.
Text size Dreamstime U.S. investors eager to trade after the holiday weekend will have plenty of news to digest, thanks to corporate earnings. More than 100 companies are slated to report this week—an...
Six ways robots are working in the background to serve you food — Quartz
Throughout the pandemic, restaurants and supermarkets have increasingly turned to automation and robots to deal with ongoing labor shortages in the service industry. Businesses in the leisure and hosp...
This is how much you made if you bought into the oil crash 2 years ago
If you want to retire rich, the late, great Dan Bunting has some advice for you. “Always buy the market (i.e., stocks or even just the index) after a spectacular bankruptcy,” my old friend Bunting, a ...
Ukraine war sees some countries focus on food, fuel, not clean energy
Concerns related to both the energy transition and energy security have been thrown into sharp relief by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, recent months have also seen commodity pr...
A Sustainable Sourcing Concept For The 40+ Billion Dollar US Pet Food Market
Americans love their pets! getty There is a start-up company based in Atlanta called Grubbly Farms which is focused on the market opportunity for environmentally friendly pet foods. Pets play an impor...
Three value stocks that can provide safety as interest rates rise
Stocks have been on a rocky road this year, as investors have tried to anticipate every possible move by the Federal Reserve to combat inflation. Value strategies have held up better than growth strat...
Colombian Food Delivery App to Accept Payment in Crypto
A Colombian delivery app that operates in Latin America has partnered with BitPay and Bitso to accept payment in crypto. With the inexorable rise of digital assets, many merchants and firms have been ...
Constellation Brands and Murphy Oil Raised Their Dividends This Week
Text size This week was a slow one for dividend increase announcements. Freeze Frames/Dreamstime.com Constellation Brands and Murphy Oil were among the small number of companies that declared dividend...
Getting Food To Hungry Ukrainians Takes Brave Drivers, A Generous Chicken Company And Sympathetic Lenders
MHP, the biggest food company still operating in the war-torn country, finds that cooperation from workers and investors — and a successful military — are essential to advancing its humanitarian effor...
As food prices hit an all-time high, more Americans have abandoned online grocery shopping and returned to supermarket aisles
More Americans are browsing again — in grocery-store aisles rather than online. With U.S. states abandoning mask mandates in public places, and more retailers dropping requirements for masks — and the...
Richest Agriculture Family’s Fortunes Jump as Food Prices Surge
(Bloomberg) — Rising food prices and turbulent global commodities markets are fueling a surge in wealth for the billionaire family behind America’s largest closely held company. Most Read from B...
24 Year-Old Best Friends And Female Founders Launch Basquet, The First Online Grocer With The Mission To Alleviate Food Worry From Every Table
Ana Isabel Diaz (right) and Ivanhova Kaufman (left) Co-founders and best friends Basquet Best Friends and Founders Ana Isabel Diaz and Ivanhova Kaufman, who met while studying in Boston, set out with ...
These Fruits And Vegetables Have The Most Pesticides, According To The EWG
Strawberries top the EWG’s 2022 Dirty Dozen List SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has announced its annual Dirty Dozen list, curating the top twelve...
Discovery, Merck, Carnival, Broadcom, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week
Text size Uncredited It’s a full week of annual shareholder meetings, investor days, and earnings reports. Broadcom hosts its annual meeting on Monday, followed by investor events from Merck, Analog D...
Discovery, Merck, Carnival, Broadcom, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size Uncredited It’s a full week of annual shareholder meetings, investor days, and earnings reports. Broadcom hosts its annual meeting on Monday, followed by investor events from Merck, Analog D...
Burger King Gets Sued Just Like KFC and Starbucks Did (You Won’t Believe Why)
There’s nothing like biting into a burger that you saw in an ad and feeling the taste not of umami but of bitter disappointment. The cheese is not as stretchy and the lettuce isn’t as cris...
Costco’s Rotisserie Chicken Supply Is At Risk, Why Food Should Not Be Used As A Weapon, Grocery Workers To Strike
I’m out this morning with a feature that tugs on the heartstrings in some weird ways: There’s a tale of pet peacocks sent to auction and the baby ducks purchased for a grandson for Easter that had to ...
Robots And The Resilient Spirit Of “Techspitality” In The Food Business
FoodTech Anonymous Now that Amazon’s “Alexa” has become a daily partner in our lives, with 83 million plus users and more than 100 million devices sold, proving we have accepted face and voice recogni...
As Fuel & Food Prices Soar, Consumers Tighten On Retail Spending
Retailers feel the pinch. As consumers battle with an onslaught of rising cost, retail spending has … [+] slowed slightly (photo by Daniel Harvey Gonzalez/In Pictures via Getty Images) In Pictur...
Fertiliser inflation presages a global food supply crisis
We know that the war in Ukraine has led to sharp increases in prices for both food and fuel. This in turn has sparked concern that we may see a repeat of the famine and food riots that took place in 2...
U.S. plant-based food market value reaches a high of $7.4 billion, but industry faces rough path to further growth
The U.S. market value for plant-based food has reached an all-time high of $7.4 billion, but major players and upstarts alike are facing a rough path on the way to further growth. Data compiled by the...
‘The graveyard shift is the most understaffed:’ I work as a waiter on the Las Vegas Strip. We are overworked, underpaid, and our drunk customers often don’t tip
Dear Quentin, I currently work at a fast-casual restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip. I have worked at the company for three years. I work at the busiest outlet of this restaurant in the world. During t...