Digital Reporter
Janet is a reporter with the Marketplace digital team.
A single berry sells for $19 at a California store. Is it conspicuous consumption or a part of gift-giving culture?
Common economic measurements, like GDP growth, tell us how fast the economic pie is growing. But they don’t tell us how the pie is getting distributed.
Cutting these jobs indiscriminately will “substantially damage the economy,” experts say.
Expect prices to go up across a variety of categories, including food, clothing and cars.
Sometimes a fruit is simply no longer in season. Sometimes grocery stores have to deal with forces outside of their control.
Customers returned $890 billion worth of goods last year, which is almost triple the amount they returned pre-pandemic.
No one has ever lived that long, but a misleading spreadsheet from Elon Musk purports to show they’re still in the safety net agency’s database.
If you’re a corporate mascot, be careful out on the road.
It’s a globally celebrated holiday that requires the floral industry to import millions of flowers each year. Let’s follow the supply chain.
Under the Trump administration, more companies have been rolling back their DEI policies, but there are some holdouts, including Costco.
