Heather Hayes
Grocer H-E-B buying Favor Delivery Service
If you live in Texas you have definitely heard of the grocery chain H-E-B who also owns Central Market. H-E-B is known as the grocer with the largest footprint in Texas. The San Antonio-based chain said Thursday that it is buying Austin-based Favor Delivery, an app-based delivery service with a network of more than 50,000 runners statewide delivering meals from restaurants and groceries. Favor which serves 50 cities statewide will become a wholly owned H-E-B subsidiary as part of the deal. “We’re super proud to be joining forces with H-E-B,” BathRead More
Country Music SuperStar Reba McEntire is now KFC’s first female Colonel Sanders
Reba McEntire has been cast as KFC’s first woman to play its iconic pitch person, Colonel Sanders. Kentucky Fried Chicken unveiled a commercial Thursday which poked fun at that fact, having McEntire sing lyrics asking the audience to ignore the Colonel’s resemblance to a famous country singer and stating that he is “definitely not a woman.” The country music legend and TV star has been enlisted to promote KFC’s new Smoky Mountain BBQ fried chicken. McEntire joins a long list of celebs who have donned the white suit, white wigRead More
Who Won President Trump’s Fake News Awards?
President Donald Trump finally tweeted out a list of winners of the first Fake News Awards, but the link to a Republican National Committee site turned up error messages. The site read, “The site is temporarily offline, we are working to bring it back up. Please try back later.” Others reported getting a link to a survey and a fundraising appeal. Earlier this month, Trump promised to unveil the award winners on Wednesday, but as the workday ended, late night comics like Trevor Noah and Samantha Bee began to questionRead More
Amazon to buy Target? Some Analysts are expecting it in 2018
The last few years have given us many mega-mergers and historical surprises so we would not be at all surprised if another comes down the pipeline. The mega-online retailer Amazon could be ready to jump headfirst into the brick-and-mortar world not only by the Whole Foods purchase but a much bigger competitor to Walmart. A few analysts are starting to come out with these predictions in the coming year after the tax cuts for corporations. This means Amazon will have tons more money to swallow up other companies and goRead More
Russian Billionaire and Putin Ally Tied to D.C’s Most Expensive Mansion
The Washington Post found a tie between the elite mansion in Washington and Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska. The source indicates that a huge house with 23 bedrooms was bought by Deripaska in 2006, but the transaction itself was confidential. The house was bought by a certain company Hestia International and it is unknown who owns it. The interlocutors of the Washington-based newspaper say that this is Oleg Deripaska. The Post called the purchase of a house for $15 million one of the most expensive real estate transactions in theRead More