Here’s an idea that’ll probably be about as popular with drivers as 20 blocks of gridlock traffic.
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Why Is Walgreens Selling Sushi? The Changing Business of Drugstores
Drugstores are generally considered as little more than necessary and convenient. But now that some Walgreens boast nail salons, cafes serving sushi and smoothies, and impressive selections of beer, wine, liquor, and cigars, can …
The Upside of an Awful Season: Cheaper Major League Baseball Tickets
A bad season for a pro sports franchise results in disappointed fans, empty seats in the ballpark, and lost revenues due to slumping merchandise sales and playoff games the team never gets to host. Team owners also try to avoid …
Drivers Can Expect At Least a Few More Weeks of High Gas Prices
Even as gas prices spiked in late summer, experts anticipated a fairly quick drop in prices at the pump soon after Labor Day. That hasn’t happened, partly because of the effects of Hurricane Isaac, and now gas prices aren’t …
Midwest’s Wacky Gas Prices: Up 14¢ Per Gallon One Day, Down 25¢ on Another
The national average for a gallon of regular shot up 14¢ last week. Normally, a sharp increase like that is associated with strife in the Middle East or a natural disaster causing a major slowdown in production. Instead, the …
Big-Box Shrinkage: Retailers Embrace Sales on a Smaller Scale
While the big-box retail model is far from dead, stores such as Walmart, Best Buy, and Cabela’s are realizing that the enormous, one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work for all shoppers—nor all locations. To grow, many …
Making Personal Finance Cool to Kids
Financial education has garnered new attention in the post-recession world. Now schools, non-profits and financial institutions are partnering to find ways to make personal finance cool to kids, all the way from kindergarten to …
Does Financial Education Work? Clinton Global Initiative and PwC Bet $160 Million That It Does
The financial literacy movement is getting a valuable boost. At the second gathering of the Clinton Global Initiative America, which runs today and Friday in Chicago, the accounting giant PwC will unveil a $160 million campaign …
Chicago’s Parking Meter Debacle: The Check Is Not in the Mail
Sounding a bit like an angry motorist who’s just gotten what he considers an unfair parking ticket, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel announced last week that he wasn’t going to pay a $14 million bill sent to the city by the company …
Fuel Flip-Flop: Now Gas Prices Are Supposed to Be on the Decline?
It’s been a wacky year thus far for gas prices. The cost per gallon usually retreats in the slow-demand month of February, but this year, prices rose. Not because of a sudden increase in demand, mind you, but for a host of other …
Did Gas Prices Really Just Peak? Already?
Don’t rev your engines in celebration just yet. But even though Memorial Day is several weeks off, and even though gas prices tend to rise through the onset of summer, some experts are saying that prices at the pump have already …
