Supply & Demand

The sad desk salad won the lunch wars.

“Romantasy”—a genre that blends romance and fantasy, with plenty of steamy sex scenes—is the publishing phenomenon of the moment.

Turn your classroom into a digital marketplace. Breakeven is a real-time trading platform, designed for learning economics.

The margins are tight, but there’s still a profit to be made on the offer, according to restaurant-industry experts

McDonald’s rolls out its new value offering today, aiming to lure back cost-conscious customers who turned away from the chain amid increasing prices.

The retailer expects to deploy the technology to 2,300 locations by 2026 in a bid to improve efficiency and customer service.

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Service charges added to restaurant bills are a little different since they’re often applied in the context of some increased cost that the restaurant has incurred. So then why don’t restaurants just increase the prices of the dishes instead? Well, there’s some solid economic reasoning behind this growing trend.

Where have all the Teslas gone? Stored in parking lots, every one....

Digital surveillance and customer isolation are individualizing the prices we pay.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday she is indefinitely delaying the implementation of congestion pricing in New York City’s borough of Manhattan just weeks before the plan was set to take effect, dealing a major blow to transportation advocates who have spent decades pushing for the deal and a win for several opponents of the plan who say the toll is a regressive tax on commuters.

How power, technology, and opportunity have come together to gouge consumers

Who's winning the battle for eyeballs?  Answer: Streaming has recently surpassed cable, with 38.4% of total TV consumption vs. 29.1% for cable Questions: When it comes to consuming TV, which method do you use most? Why?  Why do you think that streaming recently surpassed cable?  How many streaming services do you think are useful?  Do you think recent price increases from streaming services or their move to ad-supported models will impact their popularity? Why or why not?    Here are the ready-to-go slides for this Question of the Day that you can use in your classroom.

The audio purveyor is raising prices again.

Why now? Every retailer wants to be seen as the ‘one’ that finally lowered prices.

As they upgrade to fiber-optic cable, telecommunications companies could recover as much as 800,000 metric tons of copper over the next decade.

Apple's smartphone shipments in China rose 52% in April from a year ago, extending a rebound seen in March, according to data from a research firm affiliated the Chinese government.

The initiative follows several recent moves by the retailer to appeal to value and price-sensitive consumers.

Michael Harrop started an underground poop-trading empire. But something smells off about his product.

The Appeal's 9-month investigation uncovered prison commissaries’ exploitative, inconsistent systems with inside prices up to five times higher than in the community and markups as high as 600 percent.

Falling crop prices are leaving agriculture equipment sellers with an excess of unsold tractors and combines. To cope with the surplus, dealers are discounting machines, suspending new orders, and even auctioning off equipment at reduced prices.

No surprise: the iPhone 15s are selling very well.

Prices at limited-service restaurants including Wendy's, Taco Bell, Chick-fil-A and Chipotle have increased more over the past decade than both full-service ...

A shortage of olive oil has driven prices to record highs, fueled a crime surge and pushed the industry into crisis mode.

The fee comes after numerous warnings that the city’s infrastructure cannot support the overtourism it’s experiencing.

The shortages affect everything from generic cancer drugs to ADHD medication.

The government required expensive company cars to have green license plates.

The US Postal Service filed a notice with its regulators to increase prices on first-class “forever” mail stamps.

The streaming service is looking to offset the cost of its audiobook offering.