Rite Aid, the nation’s third largest drug store chain, doesn’t have sale products that are advertised in its flyer available for purchase nearly 80% of the time, according to a survey involving 1,100 visits to 220 stores.
Sued: DOJ Brings E-Book Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple, Publishers
Just like that, Apple is officially on the receiving end of a major antitrust lawsuit filed this morning by the U.S. Justice Department for alleged e-book price-fixing. The suit, filed in New York district court, includes publishers Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster, reports Bloomberg
Why You Shouldn’t Just Blame Your Cable Company for that $200 Bill
Like the older sibling who seems to be blamed for everything, cable, satellite and telco TV providers caught scrutiny Tuesday after research firm the NPD Group released a report forecasting that the average multi-channel …
Hey, Sis, Can I Bum Some Money? Another Reason It Sucks To Be A Middle Child
There’s been much focus over the years on the role of birth order on personality, employment and finances, to list just a few areas. Whatever you think of the broad idea—first proposed by Sigmund Freud collaborator
Take Harsh Criticism in Stride
Whether it’s an office rival or a well-intended colleague, someone will likely say something punitive or hurtful to you at some point in your career. When it happens, remember:
How to Know Whether You Should Switch Employers
Is now a good time to switch employers? Or is it wiser to stick with your current job and make the best of it? The days in which workers could expect to have one long career at a single company are long gone. In more recent …
When ‘Black Friday’ Sales Don’t Happen on Black Friday—or Any Friday
Considering that Black Friday is a totally made-up event meant to stir up retail sales during the peak winter holiday shopping season, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that stores are loosey-goosey with what “Black Friday” means, …
Is Fannie and Freddie Honcho Ed DeMarco “America’s Most Dangerous Man?”
Ed DeMarco, acting head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), doesn’t have the look of a comic-book super-villain, but if you listen to some of the barbs his critics hurl at him, DeMarco is more dastardly than The Joker …
Even Hybrid Owners Aren’t Likely to Buy Hybrids
Well, this doesn’t exactly bode well for the future of hybrids, now does it? Last year, when just 2.2% of all cars sold were hybrids, even the people who had previously decided to buy hybrids weren’t likely to purchase hybrids.
Fed Inflation Hawks Warn More Stimulus Could Fuel Prices
Are inflation hawks preparing to take flight? That’s the sense one gets reading comments made by two U.S. central bank officials Tuesday, including Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher, who said that corporate chiefs have been …
Update: Mystery as Best Buy Now Says CEO Brian Dunn Quit Amid ‘Personal Conduct’ Probe
In an unusual clarification, Best Buy said late Tuesday that CEO Brian Dunn had resigned amid a probe into his “personal conduct” — just hours after announcing that Dunn had left the company after “mutual agreement” that the
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‘No Runaround’ Mortgage Rules Proposed by CFPB
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is taking aim at the mortgage industry again, this time focusing on making mortgage servicers provide customers with better and more transparent information about their home loans. The CFPB is unveiling a series of proposed rules for the industry, which it will formalize this summer and implement …