Sales Promotions

Many big retailers are discounting heavily and earlier this holiday season to clear excess stock from their shelves and warehouses. But others, with no substantive overhang of inventory, are also offering bigger sales than usual to satisfy…

Retailers and their finance chiefs are facing a challenge balancing consumer expectations for discounts and the need to keep raising prices to offset high inflation.Major retailers including Macy’s Inc.,…

Inflation is coming to a longtime refuge of price-conscious consumers: restaurant value menus. McDonald’s Corp. MCD 2.95% earlier this year began letting franchisees sell sodas for higher…

Since Hayoung Park moved to Manhattan last year, he estimates he has taken in more than $400 of free cookies-and-cream ice cream, laundry detergent and other groceries delivered to his door, all courtesy of a wave of rapid-delivery grocery…

AT&T Inc. T 0.83% faces a busy year as it tries to complete a divorce with its entertainment business, ease investor concerns about its dividend and show that it can continue to woo…

Amazon.com Inc. is set to host its second Prime Day in eight months after having moved back the self-created shopping holiday late into 2020 because of the pandemic. This year’s Prime Day, running on Monday and Tuesday…

The wireless contract is staging a comeback.U.S. cellphone carriers are offering their most generous discounts in years, handing some customers brand-new devices for no money down or small monthly payments stretched over many months. The…

If you are thinking about buying shares of Microsoft Corp., or already own them, you need to understand key metrics and issues related to the company.The numbers, below, show how Microsoft MSFT, -0.81% stacks up…