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  • Whole Foods up, Wal-Mart down in customer satisfaction survey on Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:37 AM PST
    We’ve been hearing a lot of potentially positive news about the economy lately, and that may be trickling down to the grocery store level. A new survey finds that even though food prices are going up, Americans are more satisfied than they were a year ago with upscale groc …
  • What Target knows about you, and perhaps your pregnancy on Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:27 AM PST
    Your favorite big-box retailer may know you’re having a baby before you tell some of your friends and family. New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg reports this week that Target has gone to great lengths to identify which of its customers are about to have a baby, based o …
  • Buzz: Tax fraud, pregnancy bias and being bored to illness on Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:57 AM PST
    Lots of people dread filing their taxes, but here's what's worse: You go to file your taxes find out a criminal has already done it for you. This week, Life Inc.
  • Nearly half of private workforce employed by big companies on Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:45 AM PST
    Big companies are also the big heavyweights when it comes to employment, according to new data released this week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. About 46 percent of Americans who work for a private company are employed by a firm with 500 or more employees, according to the m …
  • IRS faces surge in identity theft tax fraud on Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:21 AM PST
    The Internal Revenue Service is grappling with a surge in identity theft-based tax fraud as crooks take advantage of web-based resources including electronic filing. Identity theft cases, in which criminals obtain living or deceased people’s names and Social Security n …
  • Where's my refund? IRS can't tell you right now on Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:01 PM PST
    Updated at 1:45 p.m.
  • For cheap car insurance, buy a minivan on Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:02 AM PST
    Many of us may secretly dream we are zipping down the highway in an Audi or Mercedes sports car when what we're really doing is riding along in a minivan or a family SUV. Well, at least we’re saving a lot on car insurance. The website Insure.com just released its  …

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