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Walmart is increasing its minimum hourly wage next month from $12 to $14. The pay raise brings Walmart closer to the minimum hourly wages paid by Amazon.com and Target, which pay $15.

The annual rate of inflation has dropped for six consecutive months, but prices still remain substantially higher than a year ago. Some goods, notably eggs, have been hit with continually rising prices, well above the inflation rate.

Dollar General is partnering with DocGo to test mobile healthcare clinics at three stores in Tennessee. The clinics will provide customers with access to “quick, easy health visits…right outside the store.”

Levi Strauss reported sales gains for six straight quarters. That streak is expected to end when the denim giant reports its latest quarterly results. Analysts are also expecting Levi’s to report lower margins as it increased promotions to drive sales during the holidays.

Three hundred of the 1,000 workers at an Amazon.com warehouse in central England have gone on strike in protest of a five percent pay hike given by the company. The workers argue that the pay raise is well below the increased cost of living in the country.

Chewy’s Connect With a Vet pet telehealth service is the most scaled virtual platform in the industry, according to the retailer’s CEO Sumit Singh. Expansion of the service has been limited, however, due to regulations governing the veterinarian-patient relationship (VCPR). Most states do not allow veterinarians to diagnose conditions or prescribe medications until they have…

The Food and Drug Administration has proposed maximum limits for lead in baby foods that could cut the average child’s exposure to the heavy metal by about 25 percent. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that there is no safe level of lead for kids.

AmerisourceBergen, one of the largest suppliers of prescription drugs in the U.S., is changing its name to Cencora to reflect its expansion into other markets. The company, which buys medicines from pharmaceutical companies and distributes them to pharmacies, generated $239 billion in the last fiscal year.

Microsoft has confirmed its plans to make a “multibillion dollar” investment in OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT chatbot. The new investment follows previous investments by Microsoft in OpenAI, which also developed the image search engine DALL-E.