Marketplace Stories

Grocery prices are up more than 12% over the past year. Climate change, the war in Ukraine and energy costs all have something to do with it.

As the TV in your living room gets better, the special effects in big-budget Hollywood films are starting to look worse. Lane Brown of New York magazine discusses.

Outdoor shopping centers have become more popular as consumers look for convenience.

Manu Powers, who co-owns boat and snorkel tour company Sea Quest Hawaii, said their gas bill recently hit five figures for the first time.

Shortages of labor and materials are making it hard to drill and maintain wells.

At the University of Utah, students can live with alumni. One California school is using a parking garage as a stopgap.

“The long-term goal has to just be structurally changing this untenable housing system that we have,” said Carl Gershenson, the project director at Princeton University’s Eviction Lab.

A start-up in Finland unveils the world’s first commercial heat storage system using sand to solve the problem of the variability of solar and wind power.

Employees have leverage, for now, and rising prices provide a rational justification for requesting a raise.

While consumers cut back on goods spending, spending on services jumped.