• McDonald's Cutting Eight Menu Items in January And Reducing Extra Value Meals
    Get your totally disenfranchised vote in now on CNBC's "which item should be cut off the menu" poll as McDonald's follows through on expectations to shed excess items by saying it will slice eight items from its menu next month to speed up service.
  • Jeffries, Who'd Become 'The Old Guy' At The Party, Abruptly Departs Abercrombie
    Once upon a time, when Abercrombie & Fitch was a tweedy place for fly fishermen and wannabe bighorn sheep slayers, it fell upon hard times. Then Mike Jeffries came along and made it feel - and act - young. It thrived. But, as inevitably as the AARP cards arriving in the mailboxes of Gen Xers, things got old again. Jeffries, 70, is retiring.
  • As Sales Plummet, McDonald's Puts Some Spin On Consumers' 'Evolving Expectations'
    Against analysts' grim expectations, things got worse than anticipated at McDonald's last month even as the company scrambles to adapt to changing tastes for food-on-the-go by offering customized items at the same time that it is simplifying its menu and catering to regional tastes.
  • Squeezing Value Out Of Brand Lululemon After A Few Sour Years
    Lululemon -- with its reputation worn down by quality-control problems, some questionable decisions and the propensity of its co-founder to strike the foot-in-mouth posture -- appears to be in recovery mode.
  • Starbucks Serving Up High-End 'Tasting Rooms,' Food, Alcohol And App Ordering
    There's going to be a whole lot of slurping and munching going on not only at Starbucks and its new high-end sibling - the Reserve Roastery and Tasting Room, which is opening the doors to its first outlet today in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood - but also in hideaways where folks who would rather skip the small talk will be able order and pay for their Soy Strawberries and Crme Frappuccino Blended Crme through their smartphones.
  • Honda Decides To Get In Front Of Airbag Recall
    Apparently realizing that it would be its own reputation on the line with consumers and not its suppliers', Honda North America yesterday said it would expand the recall of driver-side airbags nationwide from areas with "high temperature and high humidity" that airbag manufacturer Takata Corp. continues to insist is sufficient.
  • Sprint Offers Half Off - With Asterisks - To Verizon And AT&T Customers
    Sprint is serving up another scintillating headline to lure new customers -- cut your bill in half -- but the devil is in the qualifiers.
  • Xbox One Wins Black Friday; Hackers Take Down Xbox Live
    Microsoft's Xbox Live weathered a hacker attack last night that took it offline for five hours, dampening what must have been a celebratory mood in Redmond HQ over word that Xbox One, helped by a price cut and game bundling, had won the Black Friday gaming console wars.
  • Girl Scouts Open The Door To Cyber Sales
    Just in time for a Cyber Monday that will presumably fare better than Black Friday did, Girls Scouts of the USA is formally rolling out a program called "Digital Cookie." It will be the first national online presence for those delectable nuggets of sugar and spice and few things nice for their consumers' health and waistlines.
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