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Two senators are asking the FTC to investigate whether Alexa for Shopping and Walmart’s Sparky disadvantage U.S.-made products and fail to flag misleading labels.
Hour Loop's 20.7% first-half 2026 revenue growth and tech-enabled platform support expansion, but Amazon reliance, margin pressure and tighter liquidity pose risks.
A letter from a Republican and a Democrat asks the agency to determine whether the retail giants properly moderate country-of-origin claims.
Target announces a fall promotion event for Oct. 6-7. Here’s what Target Circle Deal Days means for TGT shares.
Costco Wholesale's (COST) fiscal fourth-quarter core earnings are likely to fall short of Wall Stree
A federal judge has cleared Estée Lauder Companies to proceed with and expand its trademark lawsuit against Walmart over fake luxury beauty products sold.
Kroger (KR) lowered its full-year identical sales growth outlook on Friday as the metric decelerated
Kroger cuts its fiscal-year same-store sales outlook, citing the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act.
Amazon's stock has fallen sharply even as AWS clocked its fastest growth in 18 quarters, and one Wall Street analyst now sits at a target so far above consensus it reframes the entire risk-reward picture.
European consumer staples stocks are trading at 18-year lows relative to the broader market, yet Deutsche Bank expects the sector to continue to underperform as consumer spending fails to keep pace with nominal economic growth. Analyst Tom Sykes said the bank has repeatedly tested the...
Walmart's enormous windfall is about to reach shoppers nationwide
T-Mobile is ramping up its efforts to attract and retain price-conscious customers with a new low-priced offering.
The new probe into retailers seems to build on the department’s antitrust investigation into meatpackers.
The DOJ just expanded its investigation into eight major grocery chains and big-box retailers, asking, ‘How did these beef prices get so high?’
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has extended the federal government’s scrutiny of rising beef prices to the retail level of the food supply chain. The retailers now under investigation include Kroger, Publix, Walmart Inc., Albertsons, Aldi, Ahold Delhaize, Costco Wholesale...
Kroger's (KR) fiscal second-quarter identical sales are expected to underperform market estimates am
Amazon.com (AMZN) trades at $255, down 10% over the past month and about 10% below its 52-week high. The second quarter of 2026, reported in July, was a strong one: revenue rose 20% year over year to $200.6 billion and operating income rose 43%, though about $1.2 billion of that income came from tariff refunds and an energy-contract accounting gain. That makes the drop worth sizing, because this is a stock with a long habit of falling further than the market.
The US Justice Department expanded its antitrust inquiry of the meatpacking industry by demanding information on surging beef prices from eight major food retailers, including Amazon.com Inc., Costco Wholesale Corp. and Walmart Inc.
In recent weeks, Walmart has expanded its offer with new brands and partners, from HallPass low-sugar candy and Bluevua water systems to Purpose Toys’ Naturalistas dolls and the Scenario women’s fashion line, while also marking its 100th company-owned EV fast-charging site and rolling out Morgan’s Repellent and a limited Duke Cannon–Mountain Dew collaboration at Walmart and online. At the same time, Walmart reported higher second-quarter revenue of US$187.94 billion, continued share...
Kroger (NYSE:KR) shares fell 1. 2% in pre-market trading after Citi placed the supermarket group on a short-term downside Catalyst Watch ahead of its second-quarter 2026 earnings report.
The Federal Trade Commission on Monday filed a lawsuit against Amazon.com alleging that the e-commerce giant manipulated prices businesses paid to advertise on its retail platform, reaping tens of billions of dollars for itself over seven years. The lawsuit, joined by a bipartisan group of more than 20 state attorneys general, alleged that Amazon deceived advertisers by secretly raising the minimum price advertisers had to pay to place ads promoting their products. Third major litigation: The case, filed in a Seattle federal court, becomes the consumer-protection agency’s third major case against Amazon, which agreed to pay $2.5 billion last year to settle an earlier suit alleging it tricked people into signing up for its Prime service and made it hard to cancel the subscription.
The Justice Department once threatened Walmart's pharmacies with billions in civil penalties over opioid prescriptions. What prosecutors actually walked away with tells a very different story about who held the leverage.
The company has promoted Michael Francis to reverse the denim giant's slide.
In a turn of good fortune, tariff refunds are arriving for companies as they confront higher costs stemming from the war in Iran, WSJ Leadership Institute reporters Kristin Broughton and Jennifer Williams write. In a story published this morning, Kristin and Jennifer take a look at the retailers and consumer goods companies using their refunds to fund price cuts. Walmart CFO John David Rainey nodded to these pressures in an earnings call this month, discussing the retailer’s move to cut prices on 11,000 items, funded with its $2.9 billion refund.
Beauty, Walmart and Tractor Supply are funding price cuts with refund payments due to them after the Supreme Court earlier this year struck down President Trump’s global tariffs. The price cuts are aimed at boosting sales at a time when many consumers are looking for value, stretched thin from years of rising costs. Tariff refunds are also helping companies protect their profit margins amid a spike in inflation.
Though Walmart has lagged behind the broader Nasdaq Composite over the past year, Wall Street analysts remain strongly optimistic about the stock’s prospects.
Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said federal pharmacy rules exist to protect the public and that profit cannot justify conduct that fuels the opioid epidemic.
Walmart Reaches Federal Opioid Settlement as Legal Overhang Fades
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