Main Street Dollars

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A federal safety filing now covers more than 844,000 Jeep, Ram, Chrysler and Dodge vehicles because the rearview camera image can fail to appear the moment a driver shifts into reverse. The problem sits in the radio software that puts the picture on the center screen, not in the camera itself, and it can leave…

Kroger pharmacy customers who paid with insurance since 2018 can file a claim through December 21

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in Settlements & Claims

Every time a shopper hands an insurance card to the pharmacist at a Kroger counter, the price charged is supposed to match what Kroger tells its own customers is the usual and customary cash price for that drug. A federal class action filed in the Southern District of Ohio alleged Kroger broke that promise for…

Gasoline averaged $4.07 a gallon last week, 89 cents more than a year ago

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in Groceries & Gas

The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline came in at $4.071 last week, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Monday survey of retail stations across the country. That’s a few cents cheaper than the week before, but it sits 89 cents higher than drivers paid at the same point last year. For…

The FTC says Amazon secretly overcharged 500,000 small businesses more than $20 billion

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in Consumer Rights

Amazon has told the businesses that advertise on its site for more than a decade that they are bidding in fair “second price” auctions, where the winner never pays more than a penny above the next-highest offer. Federal and state regulators say that promise was largely fiction. In a complaint filed August 31, the Federal…

Five American banks have failed in 2026, and a credit union with 183 members was liquidated this month

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in Checking & Savings

Two federally insured institutions went under this month, on opposite ends of the financial system, and neither event cost a single depositor or member a dollar. A small, newly chartered credit union in Missouri was shut down for unsafe operations, and a century-old Philadelphia savings bank became the fifth bank failure of the year nationwide.…

The FDIC’s problem bank list fell to 47 as the deposit insurance fund reached $161.1 billion

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in Checking & Savings

Bank failures make headlines; the quieter numbers that predict them rarely do. The FDIC’s latest scorecard on the health of the banking industry, covering the second quarter of 2026, shows both sides of the ledger moving in a reassuring direction for anyone with money sitting in a checking or savings account. Fewer banks are flagged…

Disney is offering buyouts to executives at least 50 years old with ten years of service

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in Jobs & Wages

Disney is offering a group of its longest-tenured executives a way to leave voluntarily, with enhanced benefits, rather than wait to see whether they are caught in the next round of job cuts. An internal memo circulated August 24 opens the offer to executives who are at least 50 years old and have worked at…

Starbucks is cutting more than 200 corporate jobs, and about 120 refused a move to Nashville

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in Jobs & Wages

Starbucks is cutting more than 200 corporate positions at its Seattle headquarters, and more than half of that group is not a typical layoff at all — it is a group of employees who were asked to relocate to a new company office in Nashville and said no. A WARN notice filed around August 20…

American Airlines will pay $200,000 to a blind employee it kept on unpaid leave nearly four years

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in Workplace Rights

A former American Airlines reservations agent who lost her eyesight in an accident spent nearly four years on unpaid leave before the airline fired her, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The agency announced on August 28 that American Airlines will pay $200,000 to resolve the case, along with a set of commitments…

Three Baton Rouge restaurants owe 36 workers $101,125, about $2,809 apiece

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