Because of huge losses due to shoplifting, Walgreens has closed 17 stores in San Francisco in the last five years – and five more are soon to be closed. A spokesman for CVS said San Francisco is "one of the epicenters of organized retail crime."
Theft-plagued Walgreens closing 5 more San Francisco stores
https://www.aol.com/news/theft-plagu...050634127.html
Based on annual revenue, Costco – founded in 1983 in Seattle – is the world's third largest retailer behind Walmart and Amazon.
Costco raises its minimum wage to $17 an hour
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/27/busin...age/index.html
Donald Trump claimed his DC hotel was making tens of millions of dollars. He was lying. It lost $70,000,000 while he was in office.
Investment group purchases Trump International Hotel in DC and is expected to remove Trump name
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/14/polit...ale/index.html
CVS plans to offer more healthcare services. Yeah, because that's where the big money is, right?
CVS will close 900 stores as it looks beyond traditional pharmacies
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/b...-closures.html
The discount store chain Only $1.00 was founded in 1986 in Norfolk, Virginia. It became Dollar Tree in 1993. There are now more than 15,300 Dollar Tree stores in the United States and Canada – and the name will no longer be reflective of their prices.
Passing the buck: Dollar Tree raises prices to $1.25
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/23/10584...prices-to-1-25
Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Christopher Stone and Evan Williams launched Twitter in March 2006. Shares of Twitter closed today at 45.76, a drop of 1.31 (2.78%).
Twitter's Jack Dorsey steps down as CEO
Parag Agrawal, previously the company's chief technology officer, takes over the top job at the social network.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/twitters-j...s-down-as-ceo/
Jack In The Box was founded in 1951 in San Diego. It was the first fast-food restaurant to use an intercom ordering system and a drive-thru lane. There are now more than 2,200 Jack In The Box restaurants nationwide. The first Del Taco opened in 1964 in Yermo, California. There are now 600 Del Taco restaurants in 15 states. The majority are in California.
Jack In The Box buys taco chain for a whopping $575 million
Entrepeneur, Dec 7 2021
Originally rivals, two top fast-food chains will now become one in a brow-raisingly expensive acquisition. In a strategic taco-fueled move, fast-food chain Jack In The Box will acquire predominantly West Coast-based Del Taco for $575 million, or $12.51 per share in cash. The deal is expected to close early next year.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddri...ion/ar-AARzv4J
The end of 2021 brings a tiny bit of good news, at least where employers are concerned.
A key unemployment measure hasn't been this low in 52 years
CNN Business, Dec 30 2021 10:26 AM ET
America's latest report on unemployment benefits is proof that the US jobs recovery is still in full swing. The average number of weekly jobless benefits claims over the past four weeks fell to 199,250. That's the lowest four-week moving average since October 1969, the Labor Department reported today.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/30/econo...ims/index.html
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