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Best Buy announced this week that its first holiday promotions will begin next week. The electronics retailer also said the traditional larger Black Friday sale will begin Nov. 19 instead of the day after Thanksgiving.
Best Buy, Target will offer early holiday sales, close on Thanksgiving
Best Buy announced this week that its first holiday promotions will begin next week.
Florida task force makes recommendations on condo safety
The partially collapsed Champlain Towers South condo in Surfside on June 24. Champlain Towers was 40 years old and in need of major repairs when it collapsed. It’s led to officials looking at the need to ensure other aging structures are safe.
Overall, the state has more than 1.5 million units operated by 27,599 condo associations
US factory output falls in fresh supply chain warning
Crews work around the clock at the new Amazon robotic fulfillment center currently under construction on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021 in Temple Terrace.
The figures also reflect ongoing production challenges following Hurricane Ida
Unhappy with prices, ranchers look to build own meat plants
In this June 10, 2020 file photo, cattle occupy a feedlot in Columbus, Neb. Frustrated with persistently low prices, ranchers and others in the beef industry are moving to reverse decades of consolidation and planning to open new slaughterhouses. The plants will be smaller than those owned by the four beef company giants that now slaughter over 80 percent of the nation's cattle. That has led to some skepticism about whether the new plants will succeed.
The question is whether smaller plants can pay ranchers more and still make a profit themselves

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  1. Best Buy, Target will offer early holiday sales, close on Thanksgiving
    32 minutes ago• Business
    Best Buy announced this week that its first holiday promotions will begin next week. The electronics retailer also said the traditional larger Black Friday sale will begin Nov. 19 instead of the day after Thanksgiving.
  2. US factory output falls in fresh supply chain warning
    1 hour ago• Business
    Crews work around the clock at the new Amazon robotic fulfillment center currently under construction on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021 in Temple Terrace.
  3. Unhappy with prices, ranchers look to build own meat plants
    2 hours ago• Business
    In this June 10, 2020 file photo, cattle occupy a feedlot in Columbus, Neb. Frustrated with persistently low prices, ranchers and others in the beef industry are moving to reverse decades of consolidation and planning to open new slaughterhouses. The plants will be smaller than those owned by the four beef company giants that now slaughter over 80 percent of the nation's cattle. That has led to some skepticism about whether the new plants will succeed.
  5. Florida task force makes recommendations on condo safety
    2 hours ago• Business
    The partially collapsed Champlain Towers South condo in Surfside on June 24. Champlain Towers was 40 years old and in need of major repairs when it collapsed. It’s led to officials looking at the need to ensure other aging structures are safe.
  6. At least 13 auto safety rules are years overdue
    Earlier today• Business
    In this Oct. 12 photo, David and Wendy Mills, parents of Kailee Mills who was killed four years ago in an automobile accident when riding in the back seat without a seat belt, with a photo of their daughter at their home in Spring, Texas.
  7. Here’s why the supply chain is a mess — and will be for a while
    Yesterday• Business
    Workers load and unload containers Oct. 13 at the Evergreen terminal in the Port of Los Angeles.
  8. Cruising is back in Tampa Bay with first ship in 18 months
    Yesterday• Business
    Tim Wronka (right) and Matt Infante (left), from Spectrum Bay News 9, shoot footage of Royal Caribbean's Serenade of the Seas at Port Tampa Bay Saturday, October 16, 2021. Port Tampa Bay and Royal Caribbean International celebrated the first cruise vessel departure from Tampa Bay since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a no-sail order about 18 months ago.
  9. Student loan forgiveness: What’s getting fixed?
    Oct. 16• Business
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  10. Building your credit: Myths and reality
    Oct. 16• Business
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  11. Tampa airport plans to restore routes as U.S. border opens to vaccinated travelers
    Oct. 15• Business
    A Southwest Airlines passenger lands at Tampa International Airport on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, in Tampa.
  12. How one toy store found a way to avoid a supply chain nightmare before Christmas
    Oct. 15• Business
    From left, Jack Norris, 7, his sisters Avery, 2, and Harper, 9, along with their father Lance, visit Kip's Toyland, located inside the Old Farmer's Market, on Sept. 22, 2021 in Los Angeles.
  13. The cruise industry says it’s safer than other vacations. We talked to COVID experts
    Oct. 15• Business
    Cruising returns to Port Tampa Bay this weekend after more than a year due to pandemic constraints. But just how safe is cruising during COVID-19?
  14. St. Petersburg is trying to attract a Fortune 500 company. Is it Foot Locker?
    Oct. 15• Business
    St. Petersburg hopes to attract another Fortune 500 company with incentives that might include property tax exemptions.
  15. Cross Bay Ferry sets sail between Tampa and St. Petersburg Oct. 21
    Oct. 15• Transportation
    Guests line up to board the Cross Bay Ferry docked at the Tampa Convention Center on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020 in Tampa. The season service returns Oct. 21, 2021.
  16. Dear Penny: Are we stuck paying my stepdaughter’s illegal student loan?
    Oct. 15• Business
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  17. Downtown Tampa can get pretty gross. Just ask the team that cleans it
    Oct. 15• Business
    Teresa Walls, who oversees daily operations for the Tampa Downtown Partnership’s Clean Team, removes graffiti from an electrical box using a potent solvent called Goof Off.
  18. 2022 Medicare Guide: 4 ways to manage retirement health care costs
    Oct. 15• Health
    The April full moon, the closest and largest supermoon of the year, rises between a couple spending time together at Flora Wylie Park on Tuesday, April 7, 2020 in St. Petersburg.
  19. At Abandon Izakaya in Seminole, a chef’s table series with a big following finds a home
    Oct. 14• Food
    The team behind the popular chef's table dinner series Abandon Izakaya has opened a street food-themed brick-and-mortar restaurant in Seminole.
  20. ‘As seen on TikTok’ is the new ‘As seen on TV’
    Oct. 14• Business
    A column of candy, left, featured in TikTok videos is displayed at It'Sugar candy store, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021, on the Upper East Side of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
  21. US unemployment claims fall to lowest level since pandemic
    Oct. 14• Business
    A now hiring sign sits on a display in a clothing store Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021, in Sioux Falls, S.D. The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to its lowest level since the pandemic began, a sign the job market is still improving even as hiring has slowed in the past two months. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
  22. State health officials seek more funding to support growing marijuana industry
    Oct. 14• Business
    Florida health regulators are asking lawmakers for nearly $13 million to more than double the number of workers in the office that oversees medical marijuana issues.
  23. After long absence, Tampa’s port set for cruise ships’ return this weekend
    Oct. 14• Business
    When it departs from Port Tampa Bay on Oct. 16, Royal Caribbean's Serenade of the Seas will be the first cruise ship to carry passengers out of Tampa since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.
  24. Citizens Insurance chief details trouble ahead for Florida policies
    Oct. 13• Business
    Citizens president and CEO Barry Gilway went before the panel less than six months after lawmakers passed a measure (SB 76) to try to bolster the property-insurance system. But as evidence of continuing problems, the number of policies written by Citizens has soared to more than 700,000 and is expected to climb above 1 million next year, as homeowners turn to it for coverage.
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