"The complaint filed in San Diego Superior Court said that when people at Home Depot brought an item to checkout, they would be charged more money than was written on the shelf tag or on the item itself."

Rapid growth of Temu and Shein threatens US businesses and consumers, Biden says.

Sam Altman has reportedly told OpenAI staff members that they're moving away from its non-profit structure.

"The tenure for U.S. retail and packaged goods company CEOs has this year on average been about 7 months shorter than chiefs who were in office in 2024 in the autos, finance, tech and manufacturing industries, data to August 31 from executive compensation research firm Equilar show."

"The 155-year-old Campbell Soup Company plans to drop “soup” from its corporate name, rebranding as The Campbell’s Company. More consumers are reaching for snacks and ditching ready-to-serve soups, and the company has bought up other food lines to grab them."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19594676

Ad tech monopoly trial may hurt Google more than DOJ’s search case, experts say.

The budget deficit to the country’s GDP ratio was at minus 8.3 per cent in August, increasing from minus 7.6 per cent in June and minus 6.2 per cent in March and minus 4.1 per cent last December.

The budget deficit was at 84 billion shekels ($22.38 billion) this January to August, versus a surplus of 0.3 billion shekels ($79.9 million) in the same period last year.

While the country’s expenditures jumped 31.8 per cent year-on-year in the first eight months, revenues rose just 4 per cent, Israeli Finance Ministry data showed on Sunday.

In August alone, the budget deficit was at 12.1 billion shekels ($3.22 billion).

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19496775

Source Nikkei article