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Dollar General sees increase in higher-income shoppers looking to stretch their dollars

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Dollar General sees increase in higher-income shoppers looking to stretch their dollars

Dollar General is luring in more higher-income households as shoppers tighten their spending amid growing concerns around the economy. CEO Todd Vasos told analysts during the company's first-quarter earnings call on Tuesday that new customers this year are shopping more often and spending more per visit compared with new customers last year. They are also allocating more of their spending to discretionary categories.   "We believe these behaviors suggest that we are […]

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Suspected Chinese bioterrorists smuggled dangerous agent into US in boots, officials say

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Suspected Chinese bioterrorists smuggled dangerous agent into US in boots, officials say

One of the two Chinese nationals arrested for allegedly smuggling a toxic crop-killing pathogen, which also has devastating health effects on humans, stuffed the noxious fungus into her boots while entering the U.S. in 2022, documents show.According to an arrest affidavit for University of Michigan post-doctoral research fellow Yunqing Jian and her boyfriend, Zunyong Liu, Jian first brought Fusarium graminearum, described as a "potential agroterrorism weapon" in scientific literature, in […]

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Costco confirms testing of ‘scan-and-go’ checkout technology to speed up long lines

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Costco confirms testing of ‘scan-and-go’ checkout technology to speed up long lines

Costco has been testing checkout technology it hopes will speed up the checkout process, something members rank as one of their significant concerns with the warehouse retailer. CEO Ron Vachris said last week during the company’s third-quarter earnings call that Costco has "engaged in some ‘Scan & Go done by Costco’ kind of tests." The technology has "been extremely successful in moving people through the lines and expediting the transactions," according to […]

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