On Monday, I asked: What is almost always the top-selling item in any grocery store? The answer: bananas. Way to go, comment-poster tomsteuber! What’s really wild is that tomsteuber is also correct that bananas are the top-selling item at Wal-Mart (as measured by dollar sales). And Wal-Mart, as you may or may not realize, is [...]
One thing people tend to care about a lot when oil gets really expensive is what happens at the gas pump. Gas prices broadly follow the cost of crude, but there’s a lot more that goes into how much a fill-up sets you back. I called up Oil Price Information Service (OPIS), a group that [...]
