The convenience store chain takes on today's coffee drinking culture and invites consumers to "Come to Your Coffee Senses." Actor Michael Rapaport plays the voice of coffee reason, pointing out that consumers are conditioned to pay nearly $3 for a cup of coffee at a non-Cumberland Farms location.

Walmart is keeping a close eye on two recently opened supercenters in Tomball, Texas, and Lake Nona, Fla. The stores were fully reimagined - from layout to building and environmental enhancements to added technology - with a goal of improving the shopping experience and making it easier for customers to get what they need as quickly as possible.

Restaurant chains' efforts to win over Millennial consumers are apparently paying off. The demographic gave higher marks to restaurant chains than did their older counterparts, according to the latest EquiTrend Study from The Harris Poll. Five Guys and Starbucks are among chains with the highest brand equity, the poll finds.

Amazon is hiring a business lead to figure out how the company can break into the multibillion-dollar pharmacy market. For the last few years, Amazon has held at least one annual meeting at its Seattle headquarters to discuss whether it should enter the pharmacy business, says two people familiar with the company's plans. But this year, it is ready to get more serious.

Anchor store mainstays like Sears, Macy's, and JCPenney have already been closing stores to cut costs and adapt to shoppers' changing needs. One real estate analyst says this culling of department stores is far from over, and that even the most popular malls will likely end up with just one or two traditional anchor retailers.

Chanel is offering a glossy black wood-and-resin boomerang sporting the double C logo and priced at $1,325. In Australia, home of Aboriginal culture and the boomerang, this has not gone down well. Rather, the French brand is being accused of cultural appropriation, exploitation of the underprivileged and ignorance.

After a report by ABC News last week uncovered 40 instances of parked BMWs spontaneously bursting into flames since 2012, the company is on the defensive. According to "Automotive News," BMW of North America called the story "sensationalistic." Neither BMW nor the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is certain of the cause of the fires.

Consumers are becoming wise to and leery of the endorsers. After musician Selena Gomez signed on to represent Coach - after having been an ambassador for Louis Vuitton, a brand with a very different aesthetic, one nonfan tweeted: "Selena Gomez, the previous face of Coca-Cola, Louis Vuitton, Verizon, and the current face of Pantene and Coach ... a joke to the industry???"

Decades-old industry heavyweights like Hertz are finding themselves competing against nimble, new car-sharing companies like Maven, not to mention ride-sharing firms like Lyft and Uber. That's no small challenge: ride-sharing and car-sharing have both made getting around without a car of one's own much easier than in days past, giving consumers fewer reasons to rely on rentals.

Anheuser-Busch InBev NV will devote $2 billion in U.S. capital spending to bolster its flagship brands and improving distribution. The money also will help support the company's forays into "near beer," alcoholic sparkling water, and other products like tea that are far from its original mission. The investment extends through 2020.