CVS has finished buying customer prescription files from hundreds of closed Rite Aid drugstores and is now running 63 of the defunct chain’s locations. The company last week said that it is operating former Rite Aid and Bartell Drugs stores in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. It has transferred customer prescription files from 626 pharmacies in [...]
ORRVILLE — The J.M. Smucker Co. is suing Trader Joe’s, alleging the grocery chain’s new frozen peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are too similar to Smucker’s Uncrustables in their design and packaging. In the lawsuit, which was filed last week in federal court in Ohio, Smucker said the round, crustless sandwiches Trader Joe’s sells have [...]
Microsoft is encouraging people to talk to their laptops as it rolls out new artificial intelligence updates to Windows 11 and pushes users to phase out its predecessor, Windows 10. Microsoft ended free security support for Windows 10 last week, though millions of people still use personal computers running the older operating system. To entice [...]
Stellantis says it will invest $13 billion over the next four years to expand its manufacturing capacity in the United States, a move that the automaker says will increase its domestic vehicle production by 50 percent and add more than 5,000 jobs. The world’s fourth-largest carmaker said the investment will support the introduction of five [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A slowdown in hiring poses a growing risk to the nation’s economy, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said earlier this week, a sign that the Fed could cut its key interest rate twice more this year. Powell said in a speech in Philadelphia that despite the federal government shutdown cutting off official [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and global economies will grow a bit more this year than previously forecast as the Trump administration’s tariffs have so far proved less disruptive than expected, the International Monetary Fund said this week, though the agency also said the extensive duties still pose risks. The United States’ economy will [...]
The first foreign trip Joel Holsinger took in 2019 after joining the board of directors at the global health non-profit PATH convinced him that he needed to do more to raise money for charities. The investment manager, who is now also a partner and co-head of alternative credit at Ares Management Corp., saw firsthand how [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — OpenAI is partnering with Walmart to let shoppers make purchases directly within ChatGPT, furthering the artificial intelligence company’s push to turn its chatbot into a virtual merchant as it seeks to boost revenue. In an announcement, Walmart said the new offering will give customers the option to “simply chat and buy.” [...]
Since the federal government shutdown began Oct. 1, the Federal Aviation Administration has reported air traffic controller shortages in cities across the country, from airports in Boston and Philadelphia, to control centers in Atlanta and Houston. Flight delays have spread to airports in Nashville, Dallas, Newark and more, and already there has been an increase [...]