Surfside drinks on display at the trade show during CinemaCon 2026 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on April 15, 2026. Travis P Ball | AP About a decade ago, sales of LaCroix began to skyrocket. Soon, flavored seltzers were everywhere, from grocery store refrigerators to liquor store shelves. But the era of bubbles looks…
A Walmart store in Austin, Texas, Feb. 3, 2026. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Two top Walmart executives are departing the company, nearly four months after CEO John Furner took over, according to internal memos viewed by CNBC on Friday. Tom Ward, the chief operating officer of Walmart’s warehouse chain Sam’s Club, is retiring, and…
President Donald Trump suggested last month he would look out for companies that didn’t seek tariff refunds after the Supreme Court struck down his wide-ranging global duties. At first, some major firms like Amazon appeared to be holding off on asking for money back over concerns they’d offend the often transactional president and end up…
This photograph shows displayed collectible cards from the Pokemon Trading Card Game (TCG) at an amateur collector’s appartment in Paris on March 11, 2026. Martin Lelievre | Afp | Getty Images When I was a kid in the late 90s, collecting Pokémon cards was a fun hobby. I’d buy packs, hoping to get the rarest…
Walmart issued a worse-than-expected financial outlook for the year on Thursday as it reported fiscal first-quarter results, raising questions about the health of the U.S. consumer as high gas prices strain shopper budgets. The mega retailer stood by its fiscal 2027 outlook, which disappointed investors last quarter when it was issued. The retailer said it’s…
E.l.f. Beauty is planning to walk back some of the tariff-fueled price increases it implemented less than a year ago after the retailer has seen a slide in demand that’s ramped up in recent months as consumers contend with higher gas prices. “Whenever you take a price increase that’s that big, you’re going to see…
The founder of Authentic Brands Group, the management firm behind dozens of retail and media names including Reebok, Champion and Brooks Brothers, said he expects to take the company public in the next 12 months as he announced a former Wynn Resorts CEO will be its next chief executive. In an exclusive interview with CNBC’s…
Lowe’s on Wednesday reported quarterly results that beat expectations on the top and bottom lines and reaffirmed its full-year outlook. Revenue jumped about 10% compared with the previous year. Comparable sales increased 0.6% for the quarter, driven by what Lowe’s said was its spring execution and a 15.5% growth in online sales. “Roughly 60% to…
A detailed view of an LED board displaying the Fanatics logo during first half of the match between the Houston Dash and the Denver Summit FC at Shell Energy Stadium on May 9, 2026 in Houston, Texas. Maria Lysaker | Nwsl | Getty Images Fanatics plans to launch its first credit card later this year,…
From the Dayton, Ohio, suburbs to boardrooms in Dallas, the employees fueling AT&T’s next wave of growth aren’t fresh-faced college graduates with expensive four-year degrees. They’re skilled, blue-collar workers ready to get their hands dirty — and AT&T can’t find enough of them. “We need people who know how to actually work with electricity. We…
