Austin‑based Base Power has launched in Chicagoland, opening a Bloomingdale warehouse and promising cheaper electricity with whole‑home batteries. The company says it will add about 50 local jobs.

Strategy Inc. authorized a plan that could monetize up to $1.25B of bitcoin and raised a USD reserve to about $2.55B, marking a break with Michael Saylor’s long 'never sell' approach.

Wonder, owner of Grubhub, says it will begin Zipline‑operated drone food deliveries in Dallas in January 2027, rolling out at a handful of new foodhall locations. The company plans wider Texas expansion through 2027.

Sprouts signed a lease to convert the long‑vacant Amazon Fresh build‑out at Llanerch Shopping Center in Havertown into a roughly 29,500‑sq‑ft market. The store is slated to open in Q1.

DLC Management bought Perimeter Woods across from Northlake Mall in a deal that records the Charlotte asset at $36.6M as part of a six-property portfolio purchase.

Primark will open a nearly 30,000‑sq‑ft store at Willowbrook Mall on July 16, occupying part of the old Sears and adding jobs for the area.

About 13,500 Amana window and through‑the‑wall units were recalled over a fire and burn hazard; owners should stop using affected machines and follow the refund instructions.

A Weymouth Shaw's sold a $1 million 100X scratch ticket that a Quincy trust claimed and took a $650,000 lump-sum payout before taxes. The store gets a $10,000 retailer bonus.

State filings show Costco plans new warehouses in Celina and Mansfield, adding roughly 315,000 sq ft and multi‑million dollar construction projects to North Texas.

CBP opened Phase 2 of its CAPE refund portal on June 29, expanding eligibility to reconciliation‑flagged entries and adding billions more to the refund pipeline.

Target will open its first Little Elm store on July 26, adding roughly 200 jobs and a large grocery-forward store to the US 380 corridor.

Stripe and Visa are among more than 100 firms backing Open USD, a dollar‑pegged stablecoin from the Open Standard coalition. The move aims to bake programmable dollars into card, treasury and on‑chain flows.

A local travel agent in St. Louis left customers scrambling for Bosnia flights and refunds, with some reporting thousands of dollars lost and unusable confirmation codes.