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Somewhere out there in Walmart land, on May 27 at 3:18 p.m., a customer returned a Nintendo Switch 2. Maybe the Joy-Con controllers weren’t their vibe. Maybe they spilled juice on it. There could be a million reasons. But here’s the more urgent question: What happened to that Nintendo Switch next? The answer is dauntingly complicated. Not to mention, expensive.  For many years, returned merchandise has been a quiet cost of doing business at retailers large and small. What can’t go back on the shelf is often offloaded to liquidators for pennies on the dollar, some of it ending up…

Burger King is getting ready for a future where people still want fast food, just less food. “This GLP-1 movement is going to have a profound impact on the industry,” said Tom Curtis, Burger King’s president of U.S. and Canada, in an interview with NBC News. The chain is already testing items like Whopper Bites and protein-forward bowls to satisfy shifting appetites. The stakes are real. A Gallup poll found 11% of U.S. adults are currently on a GLP-1 medication, nearly four times the number from two years ago, and nearly half of GLP-1 users told the National Restaurant Association…

Published July 21, 2026 03:41AMCaro Claire Burke’s 2026 novel Yesteryear is a hit. With multiple weeks as #1 on the New York Times hardcover bestsellers list and an Amazon MGM movie starring Anne Hathaway in the works, its story of a trad wife influencer named Natalie Heller Mills who wakes up in 1855 living the very real pioneer life she’d been portraying online has clearly been connecting with audiences.On the surface, Yesteryear wryly caricatures people like Hannah and Daniel Neeleman, the “trad” homesteading couple behind the massively successful Ballerina Farm accounts and brand of consumer goods. Many readers see the…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The conventional response to a career stall is to add something to the resume, often a certification, a new skill set or a graduate credential. For entry-level roles and early-career moves, this makes sense, but for experienced professionals, it largely doesn’t. The most valuable opportunities later on in your career aren’t distributed through the systems where credentials get evaluated. They live somewhere else entirely: the “hidden market.” The “hidden market” includes everything from consulting engagements, advisory seats, board roles, speaking invitations, equity arrangements and income streams that together account for…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Digital is where a brand gets decided, even when the purchase happens somewhere else. Only about a fifth of U.S. retail is ecommerce, but the screen is the one place a customer can reach a brand instantly. A brand that feels whole is the result of deliberate decisions on every surface, not an accident of taste. The brand experience gap is structural and technical. Templated platforms strip personality in the name of efficiency, and tools decide what the brand is allowed to be. For a challenger brand, a deliberately built…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Before deciding how hard to fight, get clear on what’s actually at stake — money, control, a relationship or a precedent — because that answer should shape your entire strategy. A settlement isn’t done until every key term is written down and specific — vague verbal agreements are where most disputes go wrong. High-stakes disputes have a way of making smart people move too fast. The pressure builds. The invoices keep coming. The emails get sharper. Everyone wants the problem to end. That’s usually when the most expensive mistakes happen.A…

Key Takeaways Colette and Andy Bell started a handyman business in 1998 to tackle small projects for homeowners. In 2018, they connected with Ace Hardware, which purchased their business in 2019. Colette is now the vice president of franchise development for Ace Handyman Services, and she continues to lead expansion. Colette Bell and her husband, Andy Bell, started a handyman business in Denver, Colorado, in 1998 after identifying a unique need.  They found that big specialty contracting companies did not want to do small projects for homeowners. For example, if someone had one sticky window and called a window company,…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The most effective founders don’t work harder — they run a five-day audit to find where their own involvement has quietly become the bottleneck slowing the business down. Real growth comes from deliberately reclaiming time for strategic work, delegating the rest, and rebuilding your week around the few things only you should own. There is a stage in business where effort stops producing the results it once did. Your calendar is full, your team depends on you and yet progress feels slower than it should. You are involved in everything,…

This week on How Success Happens, I sit down with Ronnen Harary, cofounder and chairman of Spin Master (think Air Hogs, Bakugan, PAW Patrol) and author of No Experience Necessary, a guide for twenty‑somethings trying to figure out their next (or first) move in business. Ronnen turned a learning disability, financial instability, and a $10,000 startup into a global kids’ entertainment powerhouse with a lot of grit and, as he explains, a little bit of naivety. “When you’re young,” he told me, “you don’t really know everything that you need to know.” But, he says, sometimes that’s actually a good…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI applications are rapidly compressing into commodities. The winner is determined entirely by context. Defensibility lives in the integrity of the data layer the agent calls. This reality drives a fundamental consolidation of the revenue stack, forcing us to reframe our mental model from localized tooling to true infrastructure. Achieving true infrastructure requires a data graph built on specific, non-commodity properties and defined by rigorous data provenance, absolute freshness and complex identity resolution. Instead of allowing isolated teams to independently prompt disconnected models — which inevitably yields generic AI slop…