Viral Grocery Rush: TikTok’s “sardinemaxxing” has emptied supermarket shelves of sardines, sparking both wellness hype and fresh worries about supply and seafood sourcing. Food Rescue at Home: Move For Hunger is expanding its moving-day donation model, turning leftover nonperishables into meals via local food pantries. Retail Safety Recall: Walmart reissued a recall for about 165,000 Mainstays 9-drawer fabric dressers after more units resurfaced, warning about instability and tip-over risk. Store Expansion & Formats: T MARKET opened a Massachusetts flagship at Natick Mall with an Asian fresh-food market plus dining and lifestyle offerings; SCHEELS opened a massive Cedar Park, Texas flagship built around experiential shopping. Local Retail Incubation: Portsmouth’s Bloom Market is shifting from employee-run sales to subsidized retail space for small entrepreneurs through a new incubator program. Regulation & Risk Controls: South Korea is tightening access to leveraged single-stock ETFs with mandatory mock trading and cash parking rules; Japan is blocking domestic sales of similar leveraged ETFs created overseas. Packaging Cost Pressure (UK): The BRC says plastic PRN fees have more than doubled, adding over £100m to retailer costs and urging PRN reform into EPR. Energy & Consumer Impact: Genesis Energy says LNG terminal costs will likely flow through to customers under a user-pays model.