The costs for consumers to eat food at home fell in March for the first time since 2020. That will have an impact on Cincinnati-based supermarket giant Kroger Co., which has seen results soar as prices climbed. But analysts say Kroger (NYSE: KR), the nation’s largest operator of traditional supermarkets, should fare just fine in…

Gen X women are now between the ages of 43 and 58, which means retirement is on the not-too-distant horizon for some of them. However, instead of looking forward to this phase of life, many women in this generation dread it. A 2019 study conducted by the Employee Benefit Research Institute found that members of…

In the 1980s, T.J. Maxx’s slogan urged savvy shoppers to get “the max for the minimum,” emphasizing its low prices on quality products. Investors today can get the best bang for their buck by buying shares of its parent company, TJX Cos.

Early in a relationship with a widowed client, I received a confused phone call from her.  She had received a notice saying that her Medicare premium would be significantly increasing the following year, and she didn’t understand why.  Now that her husband was deceased, she was receiving less in social security and taking fewer withdrawals…

The lives of a pampered pet puppy and a factory-farmed piglet couldn’t be more different. Yet they are both likely to receive significantly more healthcare in their lifetimes than they would have just a few years ago. The winner in both cases is Zoetis ZTS –1.58%  Zoetis (ticker: ZTS), the world’s only pure-play global animal-health company, was spun…