Tag: Consumers

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, an Amazon.com package is prepared for shipment by a United Parcel Service (UPS) driver in Palo Alto, Calif. States could force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes under a bill that the Senate advanced on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Grocery prices expected to remain high as pandemic roils supply chains

Emma Loop · September 24, 2021 3:00 am

On the left are people waiting in line at an unemployment resource center. The sign on the right reads, "Closed due to virus, please stay safe."

Consumer confidence lags amid delta variant spread

Zach Halaschak · September 17, 2021 4:40 pm

The global supply chain isn’t improving

Jeremy Lott · September 17, 2021 3:00 am

Indiaâs Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Biden,Â June 2023.

Walmart takes aim at Amazon with foray into delivery business

Emma Loop · August 27, 2021 3:00 am

A customer wears a mask as she waits to get a receipt at a register in Target store in Vernon Hills, Ill., Sunday, May 23, 2021. Consumer spending was flat in May while incomes dropped for a second month as the impact of the governmentâs individual impact payments waned.

Consumer sentiment plunges to lowest level in decade as delta variant surges

Zach Halaschak · August 13, 2021 3:47 pm

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 file photo, a cashier hands a customer his change and receipt during a transaction at a Sears store, in Henderson, Nev. The University of Michigan issues its index of consumer sentiment for June, 2014 on Friday, June 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Consumer confidence reaches pre-pandemic levels

Zach Halaschak · July 27, 2021 2:54 pm

The pandemic is over, but plane travel headaches never went away

Jeremy Lott · July 23, 2021 3:00 am

Biden moves to limit Big Tech surveillance of users

Nihal Krishan · July 9, 2021 3:10 pm

FTC Commissioner Lina M. Khan testifies during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee nomination hearing on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Biden’s progressive FTC chairwoman riles Republicans with push to expand powers

Nihal Krishan · June 28, 2021 11:00 am

Consumer prices are up, but is there an inflation crisis waiting?

Andrea Ruth · June 4, 2021 3:00 am

In this April 11, 2018, photo, a selection of mattresses are available for sale at a bedding store in Cranberry Township, Pa.

Housing boom creates monthslong back orders for furniture

Zach Halaschak · June 2, 2021 10:25 am

U.S. deterrence policy has generated plenty of criticism from Capitol Hill. But that has been aimed at the administration's supposedly narrow view of what constitutes an attack and unwillingness to spell out likely responses.

Congress takes aim again at pharmaceutical giant over patent-stacking for brand-name drugs

Cassidy Morrison · May 21, 2021 3:00 am