October 15, 2021
Delta Airlines’ Q3 Profit May Signal Wider Takeoff of Pent-Up Travel Demand
Delta Airlines achieved a greater lift on third-quarter financials released Wednesday (Oct. 13), reporting a profit of $1.2 billion in a positive sign of recovery for the entire airline sector....
October 15, 2021
Retail Sales Up 0.7% in September as Inflation Continues to...
Labor Day travel and continued consumer resilience contributed to a 0.7% increase in consumer spending last month, the U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday (Oct. 15), marking the second month...
October 14, 2021
Connections With Secondhand Sellers Create ‘Tipping Point’ Between Browsing and...
Shopping for secondhand clothing online can be daunting for consumers who want to inspect every item for tears, stains and imperfections a previous owner may have caused, leading to lost...
October 11, 2021
Main Street Merchants’ Employment, Wages and Locations Near Pre-Pandemic Levels
Main Street merchants remain resilient and are even thriving 18 months into the pandemic, but they’re not quite back to “business as usual.” That won’t happen until those merchants get...
October 07, 2021
PYMNTS’ Merchant Index Finds Main Street SMBs Taking Different Paths...
Big wins for small business seem harder to come by as global enterprises dominate the news and our everyday lives, but small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are a pandemic-era success...
October 06, 2021
SMBs Look for Leg Up in Competing on Digital Marketplaces
At the beginning of 2021, optimistic prognosticators said the U.S. would be out of the pandemic’s depths by the fall, but with vaccination rates slowed and the delta variant spreading...
October 02, 2021
Two Californians Busted for Fake COVID-19 Test Results
A 34-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman, both from California, were arrested in Hawaii for submitting fraudulent COVID-19 test results in an effort to skirt a traveler quarantine requirement that’s...
September 24, 2021
Retailers Lean on Employees to Do More Amid Labor Shortage
Amid a national hiring crunch that’s hitting nearly every industry, retailers have been pulling out all the stops to attract workers, but some are also coming to terms with the...
September 23, 2021
Main Street Service Industry Wages Up 10% in Past Year
Nothing’s come easy amid the pandemic, to put it mildly. But through the past 18 months, we’ve found out just how resilient “Main Street” SMBs really are. In fact, as...
