Every Sunday morning, I head to my nearby Whole Foods and beat its 8 a.m. opening by several minutes. They let me in anyway.

One station sold gas for a whopping $20 a gallon. A hotel reportedly charged guests more than twice the normal rate. One business sold bottles of water for a staggering $99 per case - more than 10 times some of the prices seen online.

Poland Spring, the country's best-selling bottled water, is "a colossal fraud," according to a class-action lawsuit.

Sometimes, when considering the orgy of spending that is China's start-up scene, it's fun to imagine the pitch meetings.

Competition is heating up among U.S. grocery chains, but Americans are increasingly buying their food at Wal-Mart.

Shoppers are heading back to Target. In addition to large-scale investments in technology - and a 32 percent increase in online sales - the big-box retailer said it's also seeing more customers shopping the old-fashioned way.

One of Maryland's largest drug manufacturers is suing the federal government to fend off competition on one of its key drugs, saying its right to exclusively sell the medication should continue an additional three years.

A decade ago, physicians who treat epilepsy got what seemed like a piece of good news: Eight companies had received federal approval to sell a generic version of an injectable lifesaving drug.