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Deena Shanker, Bloomberg Published 8:17 am PST, Tuesday, November 20, 2018 For the best price on an all-American Thanksgiving dinner, shoppers should head to German-owned grocery stores. The average cost for a Thanksgiving dinner has dropped about 1.5 percent from last year, according to a report from Bloomberg Intelligence, with discount chains Aldi and Lidl offering the best savings of the 15 retailers surveyed. The cheapest dinner, based on a basket of 20 items including a 12-pound turkey, potatoes, corn and green beans, can be purchased at Aldi, for a total of $35.83. Lidl follows at $43.31. For hosts with long guest lists, receipts for warehouse clubs BJ's, Sam's Club and Costco are 1.3 percent lower than last year. Adjust for standard supermarket sizes, and all had lower totals than Walmart and Target, whose receipts totaled at $58.94 and $64.97, respectively. Yet while Aldi's basket cost dropped 14 percent from last year, shoppers at conventional grocery stores … [Read more...] about Thanksgiving dinner costs $23 more at Walmart than at Aldi

Business Facebook Twitter Flipboard Email Enlarge this image Amazon relies on the U.S. Postal Service for about 40 percent of its package deliveries. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images Amazon relies on the U.S. Postal Service for about 40 percent of its package deliveries. Joe Raedle/Getty Images President Trump has argued in recent days that the U.S. Postal Service has lost a fortune delivering Amazon packages at a discount. However, some of the agency's problems might lie with the president. The top planning and oversight board at the Postal Service has been unable to meet and consider matters such as the agency's long-term relationship with Amazon, because the president has failed to appoint any of the nine governors to the 11-member Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service. In October, Trump nominated three candidates who still await Senate confirmation. The board needs at least four new members to … [Read more...] about As Trump Attacks Amazon-Postal Service Ties, He Fails To Fill Postal Governing Board

President Donald Trump attacked former FBI Director James Comey on Twitter Friday, calling him a "slime ball." Trump has been critical of Comey since he fired him last year, but the former director's recent TV appearances seemed to have spurred Friday's tweets. Scroll down for more context on these tweets and more of the president's most surprising posts. James Comey 'is a weak and untruthful slime ball' James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did-until he was, in fact, fired. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH. He is a weak and.....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2018 ....untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI. His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst “botch jobs” of history. It was my … [Read more...] about Trump tweets about James Comey, Amazon, his lawyers and more

Leslie Patton, Bloomberg Published 11:56 am PDT, Thursday, October 4, 2018 McDonald's Corp. shares dipped as Sen. Bernie Sanders called on the fast-food chain to follow in Amazon.com Inc.'s footsteps and boost its minimum wage. "If McDonald's raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour and respected the constitutional rights of your workers to form a union, it would set an example for the entire fast food industry to follow," the Vermont senator wrote in a letter to the company's chief executive officer, which he posted to his Twitter account on Thursday. The restaurant chain's shares pared earlier gains following the tweet, briefly turning negative for the day before reversing course. Shares were trading up 0.2 percent as of 2:23 p.m. in New York. In recent years, the company has faced pressure from the union-backed Fight For $15 that's demanded fast-food chains pay more and allow workers to organize. As McDonald's moves to overhaul its chain with remodeled stores that … [Read more...] about Bernie Sanders asks McDonald’s CEO to boost wages to $15 an hour

Oct 16, 6:50 AM EDT Newsletter Signup BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury Technology By Denisse Moreno 01/05/18 AT 2:32 PM Product delays under Apple CEO Tim Cook’s tenure have more than doubled compared to his predecessor Steve Jobs, according to analysis by the Wall Street Journal.The report comes as customers wait for the new HomePod, which was revealed in September. The speaker’s release date was initially in December but was pushed back.Delays have led to longer wait times between Apple product announcements and the shipping stage. Over the past six years, Apple has had an average of 23 days for new and updated items, longer waits than six years prior when the company saw an 11-day average.Cook, who became CEO in 2011, has seen three major products miss their projected shipping dates. The Apple Watch was promised for early 2015, but instead the company released the device in late April. The Apple Watch also saw long wait … [Read more...] about Tim Cook Vs Steve Jobs: Apple Device Delays Have Doubled Under Current CEO