Starting next year, Johnnie Walker fans will be able to pour their whisky from a planet-friendly bottle. On Monday, Diageo, the British spirits company that owns the brand, announced the development of a paper-based spirits bottle made from sustainably sourced wood. The plastic-free packaging is expected to debut early next year. Diageo’s bottle was developed…
Food keeps getting more expensive for Americans as the demand for groceries continues to surge during the pandemic. Stay-at-home orders and restaurant closures have prompted more people to eat at home in recent months. As a result, the cost of food at home ticked up 0.7% in June from the previous month, according to seasonally…
Bari Weiss, a controversial opinion writer for The New York Times, resigned from the newspaper on Monday, blasting the institution on her way out in a scathing letter explaining why she chose to leave her job. In the resignation letter Weiss posted online Tuesday, the self-described “politically homeless” writer criticized The Times for fostering what she…
Best Buy said Tuesday that it will require all shoppers coming into its stores to wear face masks. It’s the latest mask mandate for customers announced by a major chain at a time when coronavirus cases across the country are continuing to rise. Starbucks said last week that it will require customers to wear facial…
France will give health care workers across the nation $9 billion in pay raises in recognition of their work during the pandemic, the country’s Prime Minister Jean Castex has said. Castex, the Health Minister Olivier Véran and trade union representatives signed the agreement on Monday in Paris. In April, the French government said it would…
Columnist and blogger Andrew Sullivan is leaving New York magazine, his professional home since 2016, he announced Tuesday. “This will be my last week at New York Magazine,” Sullivan tweeted. “I’m sad because the editors I worked with there are among the finest in the country, and I am immensely grateful to them for vastly…
Oatly, the popular Swedish oat milk brand, has received $200 million from a Blackstone-led, star-studded investment group that included Oprah Winfrey, Natalie Portman, Jay-Z’s entertainment agency, and former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. The equity investment represents a 10% share of the company, Sara Fletcher, an Oatly spokesperson, told CNN Business on Tuesday. The money will…
First it was toilet paper. Now, grocery stores are facing another shortage as a result of the coronavirus pandemic: coins. Several grocery and convenience stores have warned that they may not be able to provide coins as change when customers pay in cash, thanks to a nationwide coin shortage. Because of coronavirus-related shutdowns, fewer coins…
US stocks finished sharply higher Tuesday even as America’s leading banks warned the economic recovery from the pandemic will be choppy. The Dow climbed 557 points, or 2.1%.The S&P 500 jumped 1.3%.The Nasdaq climbed nearly 1%. Markets ended the day near session highs, rebounding from early losses that hit tech stocks. US banks kicked off…
US lawmakers are pressing Robinhood to improve safeguards on the trading app a month after the apparent suicide of a 20-year-old student who saw a negative account balance of $730,000. “This should have never happened,” Rep. Lauren Underwood told CNN Business on Tuesday. The family of Alex Kearns, the 20-year-old Robinhood user, said he died…