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Retail’s set up for a strong post-pandemic recovery

NEW YORK (AP) — Yummy, a 12-year-old Labrador retriever, is in Petco's San Diego offices so much he has his own title. “We call him the chief dog officer,” says CEO Ron Coughlin, the real top dog at Petco, who brings Yummy to work every day.

NEW YORK (AP) — As Americans start to go out and update their wardrobes, jeans giant Levi Strauss & Co. is enjoying a resurgence in denim. That has helped the company upgrade its fiscal first-half outlook and has pushed shares of Levi’s about 30% higher so far this year.

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Chip shortages and other factors haven't helped, either.

The Girl Scouts have an unusual problem this year: 15 million boxes of unsold cookies. The 109-year-old organization says the coronavirus — not thinner demand for Thin Mints — is the main culprit.

Gardening stores are trying to keep shelves stocked as planting season gets underway.

A beachfront house in New Buffalo will set a new benchmark for the Southwest Michigan town when its sale closes within a few days of Memorial Day. It will be the fourth home in New Buffalo to sell for $4 million or more in the past year. That's a high-end sales rush New Buffalo hasn't…

Hilton was nearly 93% occupied on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, making it the best day the company has had since the start of the pandemic, its CEO says.

Preliminary research data show that about a fifth of all Americans who bought guns last year were first-time gun owners. Sales usually spike around elections, but the sheer volume is notable.

A year after safety fears led to the cancellation of baseball and other team sports, Dick’s Sporting Goods is having a comeback year as bats, balls and jerseys fly off shelves. First-quarter sales more than doubled to $2.92 billion and the company raised its expectations for sales and profits in 2021.

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As pandemic-related restrictions are lifted and people slowly return to eating out and traveling, dry cleaners are struggling to stay afloat.

Erika Smith and Bryan Taberski did what any city dweller might do when the coronavirus pandemic closed offices and remote work became the norm.They became examples of the shift in residential real estate as metro Detroiters looking for more space moved to areas with larger lots, bigger houses and a…

We’re eating more meatless meat than ever, but it’s still not much.

People are dressing up again—sort of—as they get vaccinated, venture out to social events and prepare to return to work, and the fashion industry is preparing for a major surge in sales.

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), one of the biggest winners of the pandemic, posted record profits on Thursday and signaled that consumers would keep spending in a growing U.S. economy and converts to online shopping are not likely to leave.

The company, Bundled, hires workers with disabilities through the Dearborn-based nonprofit Services To Enhance Potential to create the gift packages.

Shares of Chipotle Mexican Grill have nearly doubled in value over the last year, giving the company a market value of $42.8 billion.

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Smith and director Antoine Fuqua are the first to pull a major film from Georgia in response to the state's restrictive voting law.

The post-pandemic beauty boom has arrived.

Could it be that walking around with little white plastic tubes sticking out of your ears has actually become cool?

With the one-year mark of the pandemic passed, Grand Rapids-based Meijer revealed shopping habits and lifestyle changes among shoppers.