Category: Business

Unfortunately, federal income tax refunds are expected to be smaller this year for millions of Americans. Wouldn’t it be nice to double your refund? That’s the idea behind a new sweepstakes contest from Jackson Hewitt, the second-largest tax preparation company in the U.S. (The biggest is H&R Block.) To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the company […]

Electric vehicles (EV) are gaining traction in the U.S., most recently making up more than 6% of new vehicle sales during Q3 of last year — more than doubling the 2% from Q3 2020, according to CleanTechnica.  As federal funding continues to accelerate the development of a national EV charging network, convenience store operators will […]

If you haven’t warmed up to the snowball or avalanche debt payoff methods, think smaller. Much smaller. Consider the debt snowflake strategy for tackling debt. Unlike its better-known siblings, the snowflake method doesn’t involve a structured budgeting system for paying down your debt — think of it more like an easy way to throw a […]

Dive Brief: Activist investor ValueAct Capital is pushing for Seven & i Holdings, the parent company of 7-Eleven Inc. and 7-Eleven Japan, to spin off the convenience store arm into its own company, according to a Reuters report on Thursday. San Francisco-based ValueAct — which owns shares worth just over 4% of the Japanese holding company, […]

It’s 10 pm and, like a vampire stirring in its coffin to greet the nocturne, my garbage bin comes to life. A semicircle of yellow lights on the lid starts flashing, an illuminated lock icon appears, and inside the bone-white, 27-inch container I can hear a steady churn of metal paddles slowly tumbling the eggshells, […]

Consider this a friendly heads-up: Your car insurance bill is about to go up. Well, that’s not fair, you’re thinking. What can I do about it? We’ve got a dozen ideas for what you can do about it. Rising Car Insurance Prices We just saw two separate reports forecasting that 2023 will bring a noticeable […]

But in a previously unreported response, Google’s US public policy head Mark Isakowitz wrote back a month later saying that newly relaxed sanctions still had not authorized those activities, “unfortunately.” Isakowitz instead urged Congress to work with the Biden administration “to identify additional means of ensuring Iranians’ access to vital communication and information tools.” Google’s […]

Despite recent layoffs in Silicon Valley, most of the country is grappling with an ongoing labor shortage that threatens bottom lines. As this recent survey of popular online employment sites shows, a shrinking candidate pool will make it harder for employers to attract and keep top talent in the years ahead. The war for talent has been […]

This story is the third in a series on key trends that will impact c-stores in 2023. The return of in-person shopping over the past year or so has cast a spotlight on the store experience for retailers across various channels. But according to design expert Michael Lawshe, many c-stores haven’t kept pace with […]

Dive Brief: Circle K is now using electric vehicle charging and energy management software company Driivz to run its public EV charging network, according to a Wednesday press release.  The new software will be used across the c-store chain’s more than 600 international public EV charging stations in North America and Europe, with the transition […]