Brett LoGiurato

The Amazon Price Check app seems simple enough. Shoppers use the app, introduced earlier in 2011, to compare the retail giant's prices with other retailers. They scan a barcode, snap a picture, say the product name or type the search.

Dec 09, 2011

The secret is out, Coca-Cola says in the first sentence of a release Thursday about its 125-year-old formula used to make its Coca-Cola Classic soda.

Dec 09, 2011

Wal-Mart began an internal investigation within the last seven months to determine whether some overseas incidents violated U.S. federal law.

Dec 09, 2011

The largest United States chemical maker DuPont lowered its full-year profit outlook on Friday, a troubling sign for the rest of the chemical market. The company cited slower growth in certain segments because of an unstable global economy as the reasons for the shift.

Dec 09, 2011

Smithfield Foods, the McDonald's McRib pork supplier that has come under fire from The Humane Society of the United States, said Thursday its progress toward conversion from gestation crates for its pigs was on track to be completed by 2017.

Dec 08, 2011

Costco Wholesale saw first-quarter profits jump 2.6 percent and revenue rise 13 percent in its fiscal first quarter of 2012, the company announced Thursday.

Dec 08, 2011

Your morning cereal ritual may pack more of a sugary punch than you thought. A new study has found that some popular cereal brands contain more sugar per serving than a Twinkie or three Chips Ahoy! cookies.

Dec 08, 2011

McDonald's keeps beating the economy, unveiling strong identical-store November sales numbers in an earnings report Thursday.

Dec 08, 2011

J.C. Penney Co. is buying a 16.6 percent stake in Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., a move by chief executive officer Ron Johnson that he hopes will build up the company's line of brands while also bringing up sluggish sales.

Dec 07, 2011

The United States Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against Whole Foods Market Group on Tuesday on behalf of a former employee, alleging she was fired after she reported health concerns stemming from a raw sewage spill at a market in Miami Beach, Fla.

Dec 07, 2011

India has retracted its plan to allow foreign retail chains like Wal-Mart and Britain's Tesco to open in the country, according to multiple reports. The reversal comes less than two weeks after the global business sector and the Indian government heaped praise on the original deal to let foreign retailers into India to jolt the country's economy and lower prices for farmers and consumers.

Dec 07, 2011

Americans are dining out at about the same rate they did last year, stunting the growth of the restaurant industry in an economy that remains sluggish.

Dec 06, 2011

Meiji Holdings Co.'s shares have plummeted following the discovery of radiation in its baby formula this week, which added to concerns about baby-food contamination nine months after an earthquake and tsunami hit the nation.

Dec 06, 2011

The United States Postal Service announced steps Monday to eliminate its next-day delivery of First Class mail in an effort to avoid bankruptcy in 2012.

Dec 05, 2011

Americans spent nearly $6 billion online at retailers' Web sites last week, as the so-called Cyber Week followed in the record-selling footsteps of Cyber Monday and Black Friday.

Dec 05, 2011

In anticipation of a split into a North American grocery company and a global snacks company by the end of 2012, Kraft Foods Inc. appointed two chief executive officers Monday to lead each of the two companies.

Dec 05, 2011

Oregon's food stamp program was used to buy products at a Starbucks inside a grocery store. When asked, Starbucks said it does not recommend the practice.

Dec 02, 2011

Burger King has begun introducing new French fries in its North American franchises, hoping a revamped recipe will help it take on competitors McDonald's and Wendy's in the fast-food burger and fries restaurant chain market.

Dec 02, 2011

Wendy's announced Thursday that it would consolidate its corporate headquarters to Ohio, moving 170 positions from Atlanta and severing more memories of its failed union with Arby's.

Dec 02, 2011

Three prominent United States senators wrote a letter to numerous drug makers Thursday, inquiring about Pfizer Inc.'s deals with insurers and pharmacy benefit managers that might limit the market for the selling of generic versions of the company's Lipitor cholesterol drug.

Dec 01, 2011

Makers of apple and grape juice targeted in a Consumer Reports investigation into juice arsenic levels pushed back against the report Thursday, saying their juices are safe for the plethora of American children who drink it each day.

Dec 01, 2011

After record sales and traffic on both Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2011, retailers reported November sales that matched November estimates, as some retailers impressed while others fell behind.

Dec 01, 2011

Horse meat may soon be brought back to the table in the United States, as horse slaughterhouses will be revived under an obscure inclusion in a recent appropriations bill.

Nov 30, 2011

The National Restaurant Association's Restaurant Performance Index remained flat in October from the previous month, as lower foot traffic and sales offset improved outlook from restaurant operators.

Nov 30, 2011

Wendy's is on track to overtake Burger King as the United States' second-largest fast-food burger chain next to McDonald's, according to an analyst's report released on Tuesday.

Nov 29, 2011

Most retailers lured shoppers to their online and brick-and-mortar stores this Black Friday and Cyber Monday with ads promising deals that were too good to pass up. Outerwear retailer Patagonia, however, effectively tried to do the opposite.

Nov 29, 2011

Remember the Wal-Mart shopper that pepper-sprayed people to get an Xbox 360 on Black Friday? Yeah, that Wal-Mart shopper that pepper-sprayed people to get an Xbox 360 on Black Friday. Well, turns out she may not have done it to get an Xbox 360 after all.

Nov 29, 2011

Online retail sales on Cyber Monday 2011 hit record highs and jumped 33 percent compared to the same day last year, according to a report from IBM Coremetrics.

Nov 29, 2011

Ocean Spray will voluntarily recall certain production lots of Original Flavor Craisins because of the possible presence of small hair-like metal fragments, the company announced Monday.

Nov 28, 2011