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Amazon expands its perishable delivery service, putting pressure on traditional grocers

By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
Aug 13, 2025 10:08 am - Amazon is now rolling out a service where its Prime members can order their blueberries and milk at the same time as their batteries, T-shirts and other basic items.
At Home closing Lake in the Hills store

By Claire O'Brien
Aug 11, 2025 7:17 am - At Home, a Texas-based national home decor retailer, will be closing its Lake in the Hills location.
McDonald’s says its focus on value — and a must-have Minecraft meal — boosted second-quarter sales

By DEE-ANN DURBIN
Aug 06, 2025 6:50 am - A focus on value — along with hot products like a “Minecraft”-themed meal — helped McDonald’s turn around its sagging sales in the second quarter.
Will Mount Prospect hop on the grocery tax bandwagon?

By Steve Zalusky
Aug 05, 2025 3:23 pm - Mount Prospect could become the latest community to adopt a local grocery tax, in reaction to the state’s decision to stop collecting the tax for municipalities in 2026.
5th annual Be You Rock Hunt returns to downtown St. Charles

By Nicholas Lowe, St. Charles Business Alliance
Jul 31, 2025 11:39 am - The St. Charles Business Alliance is hosting the fifth annual "Be You" Rock Hunt with 20 painted rocks hidden in the downtown area.
A key US inflation gauge rose last month as Trump's tariffs lifted goods prices

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Jul 31, 2025 8:21 am - The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge ticked higher last month in a sign that President Donald Trump’s broad-based tariffs are starting to lift prices for many goods.
Why having a grocery store on Batavia’s east side is so important

By Dave Heun
Jul 30, 2025 12:39 pm - As Berkeley Finer Foods closes, to be replaced by Cinco de Mayo Market on Batavia’s east side, Dave Heun looks at the history of grocery stores in the Tri-Cities.
St. Charles Business Alliance launches ‘Retail Route’ challenge

By Kate Santillan
Jul 28, 2025 1:20 pm - The St. Charles Business Alliance recently launched a “Retail Route” challenge, available on the Travel St. Charles app.
Tariffs threaten Asian beauty product boom in US

By MAE ANDERSON
Jul 28, 2025 1:19 pm - Asian skin care has been a booming global business for a more than a decade, with consumers in Europe, North and South America, and increasingly the Middle East, snapping up creams, serums and balms from South Korea, Japan and China. In the United States and elsewhere, Korean cosmetics, or K-beauty for short, have dominated the trend.
Warrenville plans pop-up marketplace similar to Batavia’s boardwalk shops

By Katlyn Smith
Jul 28, 2025 11:35 am - Warrenville leaders are working to fashion a pop-up marketplace that can grow over time, drawing examples from seasonal shops in Batavia and Berwyn.

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