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What Recession?

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 12.01.2008 | Business


<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Who are all these people forking over piles of green? Aren't they aware that the economy is in the sump?

When It Comes to Slicing the American Pie, McCain Serves Only the Rich

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics


Leo W. Gerard

McCain and Palin are running around the country pretending the GOP ticket represents the best interests of the working class and small business owners. It's all false rhetoric and no real action.

NEW iPHONE/iPOD TOUCH PROGRAM HELPS SAVE GAS, CLEAN-UP EMISSIONS

Steve Parker | Posted 09.20.2008 | Green


Steve Parker

Let's take a quick break from the election, the end of the world as we know it and etc., and have a little fun. There's a new way to help improve the...

Costco and the Great Federal Bailout

Howard Gewirtz | Posted 09.19.2008 | Business


Howard Gewirtz

If you've paid your taxes, you are now the proud owner of unregulated hedge funds, mortgaged-backed junk bonds, etc. In other words, crap.

Costco, Wal-Mart's New Milk Jug: More Efficient, Less Popular

New York Times | Stephanie Rosenbloom | Posted 06.30.2008 | Business


NORTH CANTON, Ohio -- A simple change to the design of the gallon milk jug, adopted by Wal-Mart and Costco, seems made for the times. The jugs are che...

Rice Shortage Poll: What Do You Think?

Huffington Post | Posted 04.25.2008 | Business


With the nation bracing for a rice shortage, and nationwide wholesale retailers Sam's Club and Costco rationing the amount of rice each consumer can b...

Sam's Club, Costco Limit Rice Purchases

AP | MARCUS KABEL | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business


The two biggest U.S. warehouse retail chains are limiting how much rice customers can buy because of what Sam's Club, a division of Wal-Mart Stores In...

Retailers Post Sluggish Sales in March

AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — With little money left after buying food and fuel, American shoppers handed most retailers their most dismal March in 13 years. As r...

Shoppers Snap Up Bargain, Avoid Luxe Goods

Los Angeles Times | Leslie Earnest | Posted 03.07.2008 | Business


Retail sales rose more than expected in February as shoppers headed to discounters in search of bargains. But with Americans in no mood to splurge, lu...

Costco Profit Rises 31 Percent As Shoppers Stock Up On Food

Bloomberg | Lauren Coleman-Lochner, Thomas Mulier | Posted 03.05.2008 | Business


Costco Wholesale Corp., the largest U.S. warehouse-club chain, said second-quarter profit rose 31 percent as shoppers stocked up on food to make fewer...

Costco Starts A Barroom Brawl

BusinessWeek | Nanette Burns | Posted 12.31.2007 | Business


One of the perceived social ills inspiring Prohibition was the owning of bars by brewers. To the Anti-Saloon League and like-minded groups, this arran...

Retailers Fight Back, Tighten Up Return Policies

Los Angeles Times | Molly Selvin | Posted 12.26.2007 | Business


Memo to serial returners: They're on to you. Liberal rules that allowed customers to return just about anything just about anytime are no more at man...