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Instacart just filed for its IPO and revealed a plan to sell $175 million in stock to PepsiCo

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Instacart filed a prospectus, a document outlining its business and planned IPO, on Friday afternoon.

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A TikTok appears to show a Dollar Tree customer working the register herself when she can't find an employee

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Customers shop at a Dollar Tree store in the Austin neighborhood on August 02, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois.
A recent TikTok video appears to show a customer working the checkout stand at a store in Tennesse.

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The rise of Subway: the triumphant and turbulent last decades of the world's largest fast-food chain

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Subway's sales have been on the decline in recent years.

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Subway is being sold to a massive private-equity firm, finally moving the sandwich chain away from family ownership after nearly 60 years

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Subway is being bought by private-equity company Roark Capital.

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An AI-powered bot could take your next drive-thru order at one of these top fast-food restaurants

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A voice bot screen greets drive-thru customers at White Castle.

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Some Instacart customers are losing hundreds of dollars to scammers after connecting bank accounts or Paypal to the app

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A woman with red hair puts a box of Wheat Thins in a brown paper grocery bag sitting in a cart at a Safeway grocery store in early 2020.
Some Instacart users are reportedly out hundreds of dollars after placing orders on the grocery delivery app that never arrived.

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Cargill ingredients are probably in every meal you eat. That makes the company's environmental goals a big deal.

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Pilar Cruz, chief sustainability officer at Cargill.

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A fast-food restaurant splashed out $12,000 on a bizarre sandwich costume that was auctioned off by a provincial government

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A giant donair costume auctioned off by the Government of Alberta
The Government of Alberta said the costume "was a prop for an advertising campaign and is no longer required by the department."

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A California-based Korean BBQ chain attracting Wall Street and meat lovers is now expanding across the US — see what it's like to dine there

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Gen Korean BBQ is a meat lover's paradise that's quickly expanding across the US.

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