Retail

Chocolate makers locked in cocoa at last year's prices, retail prices rarely retrace, and the bean market has already bounced back. Here is what that means for your candy bowl.

Holiday aisles went up before Halloween again this year. The habit is older than anyone shopping today, and the shoppers it chases haven't changed as much as the shelves.

Yelp searches for pumpkin spice lattes are up 301% this year, and Starbucks moved its launch to Aug. 25. Here's why the industry keeps starting fall earlier.

Buy the same sneakers in three countries and you'll get three different numbers on the box. None of them are wrong. The systems just never agreed to merge.

A 1990s Supreme Court case about dry-cleaning equipment set the legal test that lets Tiffany, UPS and T-Mobile each claim a single color as their own.

Strip out a one-off tariff recovery and the quarter looks flatter than the headline profit suggests, with China still shrinking.

Sleep Number filed for Chapter 11 and agreed to a $415 million stalking-horse sale to Sleep Country Canada, blaming tariffs and inflation as 2,920 jobs hang on the outcome.