Wendy's now competes with Cheerios for breakfast customers as much as it competes with other chain restaurants, its CMO says

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Breakfast promotion.

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Leaked photos show a Dollar General store with rat-chewed products, a dead rodent, and fecal matter covering the stockroom floor.

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A bag of pet food sits in a metal carrier in a Hutto, Texas Dollar General store. A hole chewed by a rat through the bag is visible.
A chewed up bag of pet food at a Dollar General store in Texas. It's one of the latest examples of a dollar store to face a rodent infestation.

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An Instacart customer was charged $2,783.25 for a Kroger order of $282 she never received. 'My heart stopped.'

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A Kroger shopper in Ohio said that she was charged $2,783.25, about 10 times what she should've been, for an order of groceries for delivery.

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Tipping 'nudges' are now popping up on DoorDash. If you don't leave a gratuity, you'll hear about it.

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DoorDash drivers hope to earn more tips with the app's new post-checkout tipping feature
DoorDash is the latest delivery service to nudge customers who don't tip the worker who delivers their food.

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An Uber Eats rider and YouTuber says he's stopped picking up from McDonald's as it treats delivery staff badly and its drinks keep spilling

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An Uber Eats bicyclist.

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People online are losing it over Campbell changing the recipe for Rao's pasta sauces after a buyout. The backlash even forced Campbell CEO to say they won't 'touch the sauce.'

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Three jars of Rao's pasta sauce, one tomato her and two four cheese, lined up next to each other.
Social-media users are losing it about the possibility of Campbell Soup changing the recipe for Rao's pasta sauce after a buyout — but the new owner said "we will not touch the sauce."

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Small businesses turned an Chicago old meatpacking plant into a living experiment in sustainable food, and they are thriving

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One Planet Banner Test

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Beyond Meat, the poster child of plant-based meat, saw sales tank as cash-strapped shoppers turn away from expensive alternative proteins

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Beyond Meat products, including breakfast sausage, steak, chicken tenders, and beef crumbles, on a grocery store shelf on November 21, 2022 in Miami, Florida.

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Beyond Meat's newest ad targets meat industry attacks about plant-based food being ultra-processed and unhealthy

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A snapshot of Beyond Meat's latest ad.

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Why white asparagus is so expensive

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White asparagus, often referred to as "white gold," can cost three times as much as green asparagus. It's colorless, has a much thicker stalk, and is harvested mainly throughout Central Europe for just three months of the year.

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