Pepsi Cut The Sugar, And Now It Cuts The Salt
Recently, Kraft (KFT) made a great public relations noise about its plans to cut the salt levels in its foods distributed in North America by 10% over a two-year period. Not to be bested, PepsiCo (PEP)…
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Newest first · Page 328Next Week’s Can’t Miss Earnings (TIF, WSM, CCL, RCL, WAG, ADBE, RHT, BBY, LULU, ORCL, CSCO)
Next week actually has some key earnings despite the notion that earnings season is over. We have many tied to retail due to the notion that most stocks in the national retail group have…
McDonald’s Pushes The $1 Soda
One dollar for any soda, any size. That is part of the McDonald’s (MCD) plan to get customers to flock to its stores this summer. Coca-Cola (KO) and McDonald’s management are trying to get…
Kraft (KFT) Readies “Sodium Light” Foods A Little Late
It is not lost on food producer Kraft (KFT) that sodium is a major cause of high blood pressure which contributes to the early death of some people. The press has seized on sodium…
Nike & CBS Look to Tiger Woods (CBS, NKE)
If all goes smoothly, the future of Tiger Woods and the media may finally be back to him being the biggest golf star ever rather than the subject of tabloids and celebrity television stalking…
Walmart, The World’s Grocer, Lowers Prices
Walmart (WMT) intends to use what it charges for groceries as a weapon against its competition. By lowering prices, it may have the dual effect of drawing new shoppers and helping the overall economy.…
A Superbowl Retail Sales Recovery
The market was overly impressed with the rebound in February retail sales. The Commerce Department says that the figure for the month was $355.5 billion excluding autos, an increase of 0.3 percent from January. The number was 3.9 percent…
Walmart: Sorry, We Stopped Selling Things We Couldn’t Make Money On
Wal-Mart (WMT), the world’s largest retailer which has sales greater than the GDP of many countries, has decided it is so successful that it can stock products that no one wants. According to Reuters,…
The Below Average CEO: John W. Chidsey, Burger King
Average: “an estimation of or approximation to an arithmetic mean”–Webster Burger King (BKC) is the perennial also-ran in the fast food market in which its runs well behind McDonald’s (MCD). Burger King’s shares have underperformed those…
Costco v. BJ’s v. Big Lots: A Surprise Winner
By Jon Ogg Costco Wholesale (COST) reported earnings this morning the same day as BJ’s Wholesale (BJ). Even Big Lots (BIG) got in on the earnings game. Considering that we are in the midst…
A Sales Surge At Costco: Has The Consumer Returned, Or Just The Frugal Consumer
Costco (COST) has built its revenue over the years by selling quality goods for low prices. That is in contrast to Target (TGT) and Walmart (WMT) which have reputations for selling cheap products at a low prices.…
Will Starbucks Start Paying Dividends? (SBUX)
2010 is becoming the year of the dividend… either raised dividends or it is new dividends. Over the weekend, we reviewed the restaurant and food service sector when we were evaluating McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:…
Tiger’s Sponsors… Come From Behind Victory? (NKE, ERTS, AXP, PG, ACN)
Tiger Woods is a unique athlete that put himself in a unique situation. Today’s first round of formal apologies was effectively nothing more than a telegraph of more to come that so far raises…
Cold And Snow Kill UK Retail–US Next
The the Office for National Statistics said that retail sales in the UK fell 1.2% in December, more than the consensus forecast of .5%. The recession was partly to blame according to some analysts.…
Walmart Earnings: Still The Best
Some analysts thought that Walmart’s (WMT) earnings and outlook were a bit disappointing. They were actually excellent given the harsh retail environment in which the company operates. The fact that Walmart’s revenue went up…