Brett LoGiurato

The Amazon Price Check app seems simple enough. Shoppers use the app, introduced earlier in 2011, to compare the retail giant's prices with other retailers. They scan a barcode, snap a picture, say the product name or type the search.

The secret is out, Coca-Cola says in the first sentence of a release Thursday about its 125-year-old formula used to make its Coca-Cola Classic soda.

Wal-Mart began an internal investigation within the last seven months to determine whether some overseas incidents violated U.S. federal law.

The largest United States chemical maker DuPont lowered its full-year profit outlook on Friday, a troubling sign for the rest of the chemical market. The company cited slower growth in certain segments because of an unstable global economy as the reasons for the shift.

Smithfield Foods, the McDonald's McRib pork supplier that has come under fire from The Humane Society of the United States, said Thursday its progress toward conversion from gestation crates for its pigs was on track to be completed by 2017.

Costco Wholesale saw first-quarter profits jump 2.6 percent and revenue rise 13 percent in its fiscal first quarter of 2012, the company announced Thursday.

Your morning cereal ritual may pack more of a sugary punch than you thought. A new study has found that some popular cereal brands contain more sugar per serving than a Twinkie or three Chips Ahoy! cookies.

McDonald's keeps beating the economy, unveiling strong identical-store November sales numbers in an earnings report Thursday.

J.C. Penney Co. is buying a 16.6 percent stake in Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., a move by chief executive officer Ron Johnson that he hopes will build up the company's line of brands while also bringing up sluggish sales.

The United States Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against Whole Foods Market Group on Tuesday on behalf of a former employee, alleging she was fired after she reported health concerns stemming from a raw sewage spill at a market in Miami Beach, Fla.

India has retracted its plan to allow foreign retail chains like Wal-Mart and Britain's Tesco to open in the country, according to multiple reports. The reversal comes less than two weeks after the global business sector and the Indian government heaped praise on the original deal to let foreign retailers into India to jolt the country's economy and lower prices for farmers and consumers.

Americans are dining out at about the same rate they did last year, stunting the growth of the restaurant industry in an economy that remains sluggish.

Meiji Holdings Co.'s shares have plummeted following the discovery of radiation in its baby formula this week, which added to concerns about baby-food contamination nine months after an earthquake and tsunami hit the nation.

The United States Postal Service announced steps Monday to eliminate its next-day delivery of First Class mail in an effort to avoid bankruptcy in 2012.

Americans spent nearly $6 billion online at retailers' Web sites last week, as the so-called Cyber Week followed in the record-selling footsteps of Cyber Monday and Black Friday.

In anticipation of a split into a North American grocery company and a global snacks company by the end of 2012, Kraft Foods Inc. appointed two chief executive officers Monday to lead each of the two companies.

Oregon's food stamp program was used to buy products at a Starbucks inside a grocery store. When asked, Starbucks said it does not recommend the practice.

Burger King has begun introducing new French fries in its North American franchises, hoping a revamped recipe will help it take on competitors McDonald's and Wendy's in the fast-food burger and fries restaurant chain market.

Wendy's announced Thursday that it would consolidate its corporate headquarters to Ohio, moving 170 positions from Atlanta and severing more memories of its failed union with Arby's.

Three prominent United States senators wrote a letter to numerous drug makers Thursday, inquiring about Pfizer Inc.'s deals with insurers and pharmacy benefit managers that might limit the market for the selling of generic versions of the company's Lipitor cholesterol drug.

Makers of apple and grape juice targeted in a Consumer Reports investigation into juice arsenic levels pushed back against the report Thursday, saying their juices are safe for the plethora of American children who drink it each day.

After record sales and traffic on both Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2011, retailers reported November sales that matched November estimates, as some retailers impressed while others fell behind.

Horse meat may soon be brought back to the table in the United States, as horse slaughterhouses will be revived under an obscure inclusion in a recent appropriations bill.

The National Restaurant Association's Restaurant Performance Index remained flat in October from the previous month, as lower foot traffic and sales offset improved outlook from restaurant operators.

Wendy's is on track to overtake Burger King as the United States' second-largest fast-food burger chain next to McDonald's, according to an analyst's report released on Tuesday.

Most retailers lured shoppers to their online and brick-and-mortar stores this Black Friday and Cyber Monday with ads promising deals that were too good to pass up. Outerwear retailer Patagonia, however, effectively tried to do the opposite.

Remember the Wal-Mart shopper that pepper-sprayed people to get an Xbox 360 on Black Friday? Yeah, that Wal-Mart shopper that pepper-sprayed people to get an Xbox 360 on Black Friday. Well, turns out she may not have done it to get an Xbox 360 after all.

Online retail sales on Cyber Monday 2011 hit record highs and jumped 33 percent compared to the same day last year, according to a report from IBM Coremetrics.

Ocean Spray will voluntarily recall certain production lots of Original Flavor Craisins because of the possible presence of small hair-like metal fragments, the company announced Monday.