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A prearranged chapter 11 filing on September 30 came with a list of 76 stores to shut and a sentence aimed at shoppers: “All gift cards and loyalty program benefits will continue to be honored.” Both are in the press release Leslie’s attached to its SEC filing. The gift-card line is the company’s own statement…
A line on Verizon Wireless bills labeled the Regulatory Charge moves from 21 cents to 26 cents a month on November 1, 2026. The company states the change on its own surcharges page, and the amount is set per line rather than per account. Verizon lists the charge among surcharges it describes as its own,…
Two roof rail air bag modules come out of each affected pickup and two new ones go in, with the owner billed nothing, under a General Motors recall that federal records tie to 1,559 trucks. GM filed the campaign, numbered 26V611000, with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on September 24, 2026. The remedy is…
Gobi Heat is offering buyers of its rechargeable hand warmers a choice between two remedies, and only one of them adds anything to the purchase price. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says the company will provide a full refund or a store credit, with the credit worth the purchase price plus 20 percent of…
The original January 2026 recall of Agrish adult portable bed rails covered about 5,000 units. The October 1 version covers 35,083, and the remedy for every one of them is a full refund from Agrish Direct, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says. The rails were sold on Amazon.com between April 2025 and May 2026…
Approximately 4,200 reverse mortgage loans, carrying roughly $1.3 billion in unpaid principal, are being offered to investors in a HUD sale whose sealed bids are due before 1:00 p.m. Eastern on October 27, 2026. The loans are in the pool for one reason spelled out in the notice: all borrowers are deceased, and no borrower…
The National Flood Insurance Program is operating today, and its authority to write new flood insurance contracts runs out on December 11, 2026, a date that is still in the future. Policies already in force are not cancelled when that authority ends; they continue through the end of their one-year terms. A Congressional Research Service…
Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits, the largest wine and spirits distributor in the country, has agreed to a proposed federal consent order that sets a formula for repaying small retailers if it again charges them more than big chains. The Federal Trade Commission announced the settlement on October 2, and it still needs a federal…
Conagra Brands reported operating profit of $268.4 million for the quarter ended August 30, 2026, down from $347.4 million a year earlier, in a first quarter when unit volumes across the company slipped 2.1%. The numbers come from an earnings release dated September 30 and posted on the SEC’s EDGAR system as an exhibit to…
The Postal Service has filed to add $9.10 to a retail Priority Mail package that weighs 26 to 70 pounds and travels to Zones 5 through 9, for items entered between October 4, 2026 and January 17, 2027. That figure is a single cell in a grid of weights, zones and products, and the grid…