Month: January 2024

Cruise ships, especially the newest ones from Royal Caribbean and Carnival Cruise Line have become massive floating cities. They’re a lot like Las Vegas Strip resort casinos as they’re filled with restaurants, entertainment options, pools, Read more…

Walmart’s Sam’s Club uses the same business model as Costco. Both retailers charge a membership fee in exchange for access to its no-frills warehouses which offer low-cost household goods, groceries, clothes, and various other items. Read more…

Universal Studios Florida and Disney World compete for the same theme park customers. Walt Disney and Comcast have a massive rivalry but they also have multiple partnerships. It’s a confusing relationship where Universal’s theme parks Read more…

U.S. beer sales finished 2023 on a positive note, rising 1.4% from 2022. But it wasn’t success from domestic brewers that drove the figure higher. A $1 billion, or 9.1%, increase in sales of imported beer pushed Read more…

Challenges for brick-and-mortar retailers, such as underperforming stores and chronic retail theft, has led retail operators to close stores to ease financial distress. In 2023 and early 2024, several retailers revealed plans to close underperforming Read more…

When you’re parsing through large amounts of data in a Google Sheets spreadsheet, conditional formatting can help you find those bits of information that you want. Conditional formatting helps to visualize data, by coloring in Read more…

After a ho-hum start to 2024, stocks took off on Thursday and Friday, with the S&P 500 finishing at an all-time high, two years after the last high, and record closes for the Dow and Read more…