Dollar General’s weak quarterly report and the brutal stock sell-off that followed can be blamed on retailer Walmart, according to Jim Cramer. Shares plunged more than 25% on Thursday after the discount retailer cut its full-year earnings and sales forecast. Management expects store sales to increase 1% to 1.6% in 2024, below expectations for a […]
A food truck from Denver won the coveted Golden Plate Award at the annual Governor’s Plate Contest at the Colorado State Fair on August 27, while the contest’s reigning champion from Pueblo took home the People’s Choice Award. Pueblo’s food trucks have now won the People’s Choice Award at the fair for three years in […]
A Wilmington chef who started out as a dishwasher at age 16 is now a “Chopped” champion. Nick Chavez was one of four contestants who appeared on Tuesday night’s episode of the popular Food Network show, “Death is Not an Option.” The goal was to create dishes from baskets of mysterious ingredients, all dangerous in […]
According to Zip, U.S. retail customers are increasingly using buy now, pay later (BNPL) options for in-store transactions. In a conference call with analysts on Monday (26 August) to discuss the Australian FinTech company’s financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2024, CEO Cynthia Scott spoke about this change. “Our Americas business had a […]
The Akron Beacon Journal/BeaconJournal.com won multiple first-place awards in Ohio’s Best Journalism Contest 2024, sponsored by the Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists. The newsroom’s “Akron in the Crossfire” series, which covers gun violence in the city, took first place for best public service/social issues coverage in the under 60,000 […]
Earlier this year, a well-known British competitive eater and YouTube star came to the Carolinas to take on local food challenges, one of which was filmed at a Wilmington restaurant. Adam Moran visited downtown oyster bar Shuckin’ Shack in January and posted the episode on his popular Beard Meats food channel in April. It has […]
“It’s Showtime!” is the motto of the State Fair and the Butter Cow One of the main attractions of the Illinois State Fair – the Butter Cow – will be unveiled in the Dairy Building on Wednesday. In its debut at the state fair, a local ice cream shop takes gold to Chatham. Well, the […]
Walmart (NYSE:WMT – Get Free Report) updated its third quarter earnings forecast on Thursday. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of 0.51-0.52 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $0.55. The company provided revenue guidance of +3.25-4.25% yoy to $166.03-167.64 billion, compared to the consensus estimate of $167.05 billion. Walmart also […]
Walmart (NYSE:WMT – Get Free Report) on Thursday updated its fiscal year 2025 earnings forecast. The company provided earnings guidance of $2.350-$2.430 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.430. The company provided revenue guidance of $663.7 billion-$670.1 billion, compared to the consensus estimate of $676.5 billion. Walmart also updated its fiscal year […]
Walmart (NYSE:WMT – Get Free Report) issued an update to its fiscal year 2025 earnings guidance on Thursday morning. The company issued earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.35-2.43 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.44. The company issued revenue guidance of +3.75-4.75% yoy to $672.43-678.91 billion, compared to the consensus estimate […]
