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Danish town where weight-loss wonderdrug Ozempic is made suffers from the highest rates of overweight children in Denmark
Novo Nordisk has become Europe’s most valuable company due to soaring demand for its weight loss-aiding drugs Wegovy, Semaglutide, and…
The burrito king in coffee land: Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol’s most important job is fixing the bad vibes
Baristas are overworked as they try to churn out a constant stream of complicated customized drinks. Mobile orders and staffing…
Starbucks says you’re not going to get your highly customized drink order anymore—you’ll get what you’re given
After three straight quarters of declining same-store sales, Starbucks’ new CEO Brian Niccol is making some changes, including cutting down…
Ikea pledges €6 million to former prisoners of communist East Germany who were forced to build flat-pack furniture during the Cold War
Ikea agreed to pay millions to former prisoners who worked at German factories between 1960 and 1990. The Swedish company…
The retail industry is on the cusp of its most dramatic transformation yet. As someone who’s been analyzing business and…
An ultra-rare 1975 dime stashed away for decades just surfaced—and sold for a whopping $500,000
An extraordinarily rare dime whose whereabouts had remained a mystery since the late 1970s has sold for just over $500,000. The coin,…
James Conroy, 54, will join the retailer known for its Dress-for-Less slogan next month, in a move that will see…
‘We are essentially in a new Gilded Age’: As workers get laid off, CEOs and shareholders gobble up hundreds of billions in profits
Taking a modern-century spin on “Let them eat cake,” shareholders are having the whole cake, and eating it too. It’s…
EV charging stations could become America’s next ‘third place’ as they partner with grocers and coffee shops
Much has been said and written about the death of the third place—spaces where we meet people and socialize that…
Walmart employee looked for her daughter for hours before finding her ‘charred remains’ in the store’s walk-in bakery oven
The 19-year-old Walmart employee who was found dead inside a Canada store bakery’s walk-in oven has been identified as Gursimran…