A major port strike is looming. Costco says it's prepared.

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A Costco warehouse in Wisconsin.
The key question Costco CEO Ron Vachris and other experts are weighing is less about whether a strike will occur and more about how long it will last.

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5 titans of French luxury grew $50 billion richer in a week — and are now worth more than Costco

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Bernard Arnault
Bernard Arnault is the CEO of LVMH and the world's third-richest person.

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Starbucks customers say wait times have gotten really long, so I went to check it out

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The reporter stands outside a Starbucks cafe wearing a dark blue polo shirt and holding a pumpkin spice frappuccino with a green straw sticking out of it.
I ordered drinks at three different Starbucks locations.

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America's absurd war on 'organized retail crime'

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A man walks out of a store with a cart full of items, greeted by police officers outside.

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Young Chinese are looking for dupes and cheaper substitutes for everything from Hermès to travel

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Hermes bags and education books being copy and pasted over and over again.

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A man who's visited over 100 McDonald's restaurants around the world shares 10 items he thinks should be on every US menu

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Author Gary He posing by the airplane McDonald's in Taupo.
Gary He outside the 20-seater plane McDonald's in Taupo, New Zealand.

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LVMH's Bernard Arnault overtakes Mark Zuckerberg to become 3rd-richest person after $30 billion wealth surge

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Bernard Arnault
Bernard Arnault has grown $30 billion richer this week.

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I've perfected my Costco runs to be under 10 minutes. Here are 11 staples I buy for my family of 4.

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Boxes of Amylu chicken meatballs lined up in rows at Costco.
Because I know exactly what I want to buy, I can be in and out of Costco in under 10 minutes.

Jessica Tzikas

Costco's members are getting younger as millennial and Gen Z shoppers flock to wholesale clubs

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A Costco Wholesale store in Colchester, Vermont, on November 13, 2023.
Costco added roughly 2.5 million Millennial and Gen Z household memberships last year.

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WeightWatchers' CEO embraced Ozempic. Now she's out of the company.

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Sima Sistani is the CEO of WeightWatchers
Sima Sistani, who stepped down Friday, helped push WW International to embrace weight-loss drugs.

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