Traffic challenges continued in the restaurant industry in the first quarter, driven by consumer uncertainty, according to the Q1 2025 Technomic Consumer and Operator Outlook. Lori Rakoczy ...

PepsiCo on Thursday cut its annual profit forecast as the soda and snacks giant signaled higher production costs and subdued ...

In September, it is slated to go to trial against Amazon in a consumer protection case. One FTC attorney said in March that cost-cutting measures threatened to delay the trial, but reversed his ...

Using pejorative labels, like “surveillance advertising,” for example, “does nothing to help us understand the practice,” said Christopher Mufarrige, the newly appointed director of the FTC’s Bureau ...

An overview of the advertising technology (adtech) industry and relevant US and EU privacy laws, including the Federal Trade ...

I do mergers & acquisitions in retail/consumer ... inventory decisions. Sonia Lapinsky, Managing Director Retail at AlixPartners who conducted the study, told me, “When there’s uncertainty ...

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On March 18, the Trump administration fired Democratic appointed FTC commissioners Rebecca Kelly ... agency’s enforcement priorities, but the uncertainty surrounding the status of commissioners ...

But the FTC has a tough road ahead to prove consumer harm and undo acquisitions that have been in place for more than a decade. Boasberg himself has expressed skepticism about the chances for the ...

Historically, there has been a correlation between consumer sentiment and household ... optimistic note for the overall economy, investor uncertainty has begun to creep in as the new ...