Selling Girl Scout cookies is meant to accomplish more than just distributing Samoas and Thin Mints to the world. Ideally, the girls would learn about setting goals, teamwork and money management. If the girls can develop some business acumen, all the better. And one young scout in San Diego has received nationwide plaudits for her shrewd entrepreneurial sense, setting up shop last week outside a marijuana dispensary.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk spent Tuesday afternoon shooting a Tesla Roadster into the deep abyss of the universe in a rocket. So many people questioned the action that it wound up on fact-checking website Snopes. Aside from the mass, runaway, unsubstantiated internet conspiracy theories,  there were people who thought the photos and video footage of Musk’s space car and space dummy weren’t real.

Before Belen Aldecosea flew home from from college to South Florida, she twice called Spirit Airlines to ensure she could bring along a special guest: Pebbles, her pet dwarf hamster. No problem, the airline told her. But when Aldecosea arrived at the Baltimore airport, Spirit refused to allow the tiny animal on the flight. With her only friends hours away at campus, Aldecosea was stuck. She says an airline representative suggested flushing Pebbles down an airport toilet, a step that Spirit denies.

Dunkin’ Donuts will replace them with a new double-walled paper cup. The New England-based coffee chain will begin the process in New York and California this spring. Rival McDonald's said last month that it would stop using foam cups by the end of this year, and Starbucks uses paper cups.  

Beer distributors are facing a dilemma when it comes to Bud Light: sink more money into marketing the brand in the hopes that the short-term loss will lead to long-term loyalty and growth, or cut the advertising and take the boost to the bottom line now. Consumer tastes have been shifting away from traditional brews in recent years, in favor of craft beer, spirits and wine.  

Chipotle Mexican Grill, which has stumbled in the wake of food scares and failed to pass the taste test with its introduction of a new queso dish, may finally be staging a turnaround. Solid financial results appear to have validated the company's ambitious plans to regain its status as a darling of diners seeking healthy, fast meals. It launched a loyalty program and plans to open 130 to 150 new locations in 2018.

The founder of Perry Ellis International Inc., George Feldenkreis, who was ousted as executive chairman less than six months ago, is now making a bid to buy the Doral-based global clothing retailer. Feldenkreis sent a letter to the company’s board proposing a deal at $27.50 a share, or about $430 million. Feldenkreis founded Supreme International, which late became Perry Ellis, and led the company for 50 years.

The Chilean government, facing skyrocketing rates of obesity, is waging war on unhealthy foods with marketing restrictions, mandatory packaging redesigns and labeling rules aimed at transforming the eating habits of 18 million people. Nutrition experts say the measures are the world’s most ambitious attempt to remake a country’s food culture, and could be a model for how to turn the tide on a global obesity epidemic.

Lucas Warren, a 1-year-old from Dalton, Ga., is the first child with Down syndrome to be named a Gerber baby since the contest's start in 2010. Cortney Warren said she entered the contest on a whim, after a relative pointed out an ad seeking submissions. After posting a photo of Lucas on Instagram using the contest's hashtag, Cortney and her husband, Jason, received the news that their son had been chosen from more than 140,000 entries to be the 2018 Gerber Spokesbaby.

Gail Tifford has been named chief brand officer of Weight Watchers International, Inc. Tifford joins Weight Watchers from Unilever P.L.C., where she was vice president of media, North America, and global digital media innovation. At Unilever, she introduced a digital disruption roadmap to establish a global vision and strategy for digital media innovation across social commerce, augmented reality, A.I. and blockchain.