Higher prices will be coming to stores this fall, retailers warn, if President Trump follows through with his threat to slap new tariffs on Chinese imports. The White House pressed the tariff threat on Friday, even as Trump announced a new agreement aimed at boosting beef exports to Europe. A …
If the government’s new plan works, the number of robocalls you receive may go down in the near future. The Federal Communications Commission is proposing to push phone companies to “block unwanted calls to their customers by default.” If enacted, the proposal would not compel phone companies to impose default call-blocks. But …
When it comes to dealing with the aftermath of Equifax’s massive data breach, it’ll be up to consumers to be on guard against data thieves, experts say. Last week, the credit-rating company disclosed that it was hacked earlier this year, leaving 143 million U.S. consumers’ personal information exposed. Equifax now faces numerous …
A new report counters the notion that low gas prices didn’t materially impact consumer spending. Consumers did, in fact, spend the lion’s share of what they saved at the gas pump last year, according to a new study that challenges the long-running narrative that Americans mostly squirreled away cash when …
“Pyongyang Spirit: A drink you won’t forget after drinking once”, reads the text of an ad for a clear, vodka-like North Korean alcohol. No country is further from Madison Ave than Soviet-style North Korea, but advertising is beginning to emerge as makers of goods try to pitch products to a …
On Christmas, a day after UPS admitted it wouldn’t be able to make many of its promised holiday deliveries, the shipping giant posted on Facebook a cheerful illustration of one of its signature trucks, with stars twinkling around its wheels, towed by five flying reindeer over a tranquil, snow-covered village. …
NEW DELHI —Cleaners found a stash of 24 gold bars worth more than $1.1 million hidden in an airplane lavatory after a flight from Bangkok arrived in eastern India, officials said Wednesday. The Jet Airways plane had landed in Kolkata and was being cleaned before a scheduled flight to Patna …
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentines are seeing red after being asked to eat fewer tomatoes. The government asked consumers Friday to try to stay away from the beloved food for at least two months because of an expected shortage caused by seasonal reasons including crop rotations. Officials say all …
Amazon is planning to refresh all three of its Kindle tablets in the near future, according to a BGR report that cites anonymous sources familiar with the company’s plans. Last year, Amazon dropped the price of its original Kindle Fire to $159 and introduced a new Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire …
The unpredictable UK weather is encouraging British holidaymakers to seek sunshine abroad, according to the latest annual Barclays Travel Forum sentiment survey. More than half of the travel industry representatives surveyed (54 per cent) expect demand for domestic holidays to decrease this year as consumers choose to take a foreign …
According to the National Retail Federation, 67 percent of consumers will abandon a website if it’s too slow. Almost half of all online shoppers will abandon their shopping cart if there is a 3 second delay, according to KISSMetrics. Downtime can cost a company hundreds of thousands of dollars in …
CARACAS, Venezuela, May 16 (UPI) — Venezuelan officials said they will import 50 million rolls of toilet paper to meet the country’s demand. Toilet paper, along with other basic goods and food, have been in short supply on store shelves over the past few months, CNN said. The government and …