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Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Yahoo
Large police presence at Jacksonville Walmart for reported shots fired
About a dozen Jacksonville Sheriff's Office cruisers and officers were on the scene Monday morning at Walmart Supercenter 6767 103rd St. A portion of the parking lot was corned off with police crime scene tape after 10 a.m. Action News Jax has talked to business people in the area, some of whom reported hearing gunshots and seeing emergency medical vehicles. >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<< Jacksonville police told Action News Jax they were called out for shots fired. Action News Jax has a crew on the scene. They have observed evidence markers on the ground and vehicles with apparent bullet holes. Action News Jax be updating this story with details as they become available. Refresh. [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks] Read: Victim, suspect identified in deadly Southside Jacksonville shooting Read: One dead after pickup truck crashes into retention pond on Jacksonville's Westside [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter] Click here to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here to stream Action News Jax live.
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Yahoo
Man accused of crashing into Jennifer Aniston's gate is charged with stalking and vandalism
The man accused of crashing a car into the gate outside Jennifer Aniston's home has been charged with felony stalking and vandalism, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office said Wednesday. Jimmy Wayne Carwyle, 48, of Mississippi, is accused of "repeatedly harassing the victim ... sending her unwanted social media, voicemail, and email messages," from Thursday to Monday, the DA's office said in a news release. The situation culminated Monday, when Carwyle crashed his car into Aniston's front gate, the DA's office alleged. Aniston's security guard detained Carwyle before police arrived and booked him into jail on suspicion of felony vandalism in connection with the crash. The crash, which happened at about 12:20 p.m. in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, caused "substantial damage," the release said. Aniston was home but was not hurt, law enforcement sources said Monday. Carwyle also faces an aggravating circumstance of the threat of great bodily harm, the DA's office said. Prosecutors will ask the court to set bail at $150,000. Carwyle is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday. If he is convicted of all charges, he faces three years in state prison, the DA's office said. Carwyle repeatedly posted about Aniston on social media, in recent months sharing online his belief that unnamed forces were keeping the two apart. "If someone out there can reach Jennifer Joanna Aniston Carwyle, let her know about the corruption going on trying to keep Me from her, you will be Blessed!" he wrote in October. Carwyle's longtime friend told NBC News that Carwyle left Mississippi in September to live out of his car at a Walmart Supercenter in the Los Angeles suburb of Burbank. The friend, Steve Rhea, said Carwyle quit his job five years ago and has since been on a downward spiral, including having delusions that he is a Christ-like figure who is married to Aniston. Another friend told NBC News he has been concerned about Carwyle since the pandemic, when, he said, Carwyle's personality changed. "I really hate that this happened to Miss Aniston; this was terrible," Marty Merritt said. "But since it did, the only thing I hope is this would get enough attention, attention that could get Jimmy some help. He needs some serious help. This is rock bottom." This article was originally published on
NBC News
08-05-2025
- NBC News
Man accused of crashing into Jennifer Aniston's gate charged with stalking and vandalism
The man accused of crashing a car into the gate outside Jennifer Aniston's home has been charged with felony stalking and vandalism, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office said Wednesday. Jimmy Wayne Carwyle, 48, of Mississippi, is accused of "repeatedly harassing the victim ... sending her unwanted social media, voicemail, and email messages," from May 1 to May 5, the DA's office said in a news release. The situation culminated on Monday, when Carwyle allegedly crashed his car into Aniston's front gate, the DA's office said. Carwyle was detained by Aniston's security guard before police arrived and booked him into jail on suspicion of felony vandalism in connection to the crash. The crash, which happened at about 12:20 p.m. in the Bel-Air neighborhood of L.A., caused "substantial damage," according to the release. Aniston was home at the time but was not hurt, law enforcement sources said Monday. Carwyle is also facing an aggravating circumstance of the threat of great bodily harm, the DA's office said. Prosecutors will ask the court to set bail at $150,000. Carwyle is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday. If convicted of all charges, he faces three years in state prison, according to the DA's office. Carwyle repeatedly posted about Aniston on social media, in recent months sharing online his belief that unnamed forces were keeping the two apart. "If someone out there can reach Jennifer Joanna Aniston Carwyle, let her know about the corruption going on trying to keep Me from her, you will be Blessed!" he wrote in October. Carwyle's longtime friend told NBC News Carwyle left Mississippi in September to live out of his car at a Walmart Supercenter in the L.A. suburb of Burbank. The friend, Steve Rhea, said Carwyle quit his job five years ago and has since been on a downward spiral, including having delusions that he's a Christ-like figure who is married to Aniston. Another friend told NBC News he's been concerned about Carwyle since the pandemic, when he said Carwyle's personality changed. "I really hate that this happened to Miss Aniston, this was terrible," Marty Merritt said. "But since it did, the only thing I hope is this would get enough attention, attention that could get Jimmy some help. He needs some serious help. This is rock bottom."
CNBC
06-05-2025
- Business
- CNBC
Hispanic shoppers are spending less on groceries, putting pressure on consumer companies
Miami, Hialeah Gardens, Florida, Walmart Supercenter, checkout line cashier, customers paying. Hispanic consumers are cutting back their grocery spending on everything from beer to cooking spray, executives said during recent earnings calls. Coca-Cola , Constellation Brands and Colgate-Palmolive are among the companies that have reported a slowdown in North American sales from Hispanic shoppers. A fifth of the U.S. population identifies as Hispanic or Latino, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Hispanics are now the second-largest demographic in the U.S. and the second-fastest growing ethnic group, agency data shows. As the population of Hispanic consumers grows, so does their purchasing power — and their contribution to companies' bottom lines. According to the latest data from economic think tank Latino Donor Collaborative, the U.S. Latino economy grew to $3.6 trillion in 2022, up from $3.2 trillion the prior year. And when it comes to shopping, Hispanic Americans overall spend more on consumer packaged goods and outpace non-Hispanic consumers, according to market research firm Circana. But the White House's hard-line immigration stance and broader economic concerns have led some Hispanic consumers to pull back their spending. Hispanic consumers drove a sharp decline in consumer net purchase intent in January, although the trend moderated in February, according to a research note from Goldman Sachs, citing HundredX data. The metric refers to the ratio of customers who intend to buy more from a brand subtracted from those who plan to buy less. A contributing factor to the dip, some experts say, is fear around stricter immigration policy. While the Trump administration has deported fewer people than President Joe Biden's administration during the year-ago period, reports from Immigration and Customs Enforcement show it is holding 10% more detainees than it was under Biden. Hispanic consumers helped Constellation Brands' Modelo Especial overtake Bud Light as the nation's top-selling beer. More than 50% of Modelo drinkers are Hispanic, according to CEO Bill Newlands. But Constellation provided a weaker-than-expected outlook for its fiscal 2026, citing both tariffs and diminished pending from Hispanic consumers. "The fact is, a lot of consumers in the Hispanic community are concerned right now. … Over half are concerned relative to immigration issues and how those impact [them]. A number of them are concerned about job losses in industries that have a high Latino employment base," Newlands said on the company's conference call in early April. The Latino unemployment rate ticked up to a seasonally adjusted 5.2% in April, from 4.8% a year earlier and 5.1% in March, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. "Things like social gatherings, an area where the Hispanic consumer often consumes beer, are declining today," Newlands added. Corona and Modelo beers from Mexico are displayed for sale at a Whole Foods store on Feb. 3, 2025 in New York City. Constellation, which also owns Corona, has repeatedly self-reported that Hispanic Americans make up roughly half of the company's overall beer business. Hispanic- and Latino-identifying customers accounted for 32.5% of Constellation Brands' sales in 2023, according to data from consumer research firm Numerator and investment bank Jefferies. And Constellation isn't the only brewer seeing a downturn. Sam Adams' owner Boston Beer referred to a similar decline in its quarterly report. "The macroeconomic winds are obviously the consumer confidence, the fear of inflation; there is also some pullback from the Hispanic consumers that they're just not going out as much," said Boston Beer CEO Michael Spillane. Hispanic consumers are also pulling back on their non-alcoholic beverage purchases. Spending by Hispanic consumers has softened over the last couple of months, Keurig Dr Pepper CEO Tim Cofer said on the company's conference call in late April. "When you dig into that, you see that manifesting both in terms of fewer trips and lower spend per trip," he told analysts. Hispanic consumers make up "a meaningful percentage" of Keurig Dr Pepper's business and broader consumer packaged goods category, according to Cofer. The company owns brands popular with Hispanic consumers like Squirt soda, Peñafiel mineral water and Clamato, which can be mixed with beer to make micheladas. Still, the slowdown was not enough to cause Keurig Dr Pepper to lower its full-year outlook. Rival Coca-Cola also didn't trim its forecast, but it is prioritizing winning back Hispanic consumers next quarter. For years, the company has targeted Latinos through advertising and acquisitions, like the 2017 purchase of Mexico's Topo Chico. Mexico is also a top market for its namesake beverage. But this quarter, executives said weaker traffic from Hispanic shoppers weighed on its North American volume, fueled in part by a boycott. In February, rumors spread on social media that Coke had reported undocumented workers to U.S. immigration authorities. Coke denied the accusations, but CEO James Quincey said last week that the "completely false" videos hurt traffic, particularly in Southern states. And Coke is seeing additional fallout south of the border from the tensions around the Trump administration's policies. "Some of the geopolitical tension and Hispanic pullback also affected the Mexican [market], particularly the border region, which is very connected to the U.S.," Quincey told analysts on the company's conference call. The pullback from Hispanic consumers didn't just hit the beverage aisle. Other parts of the grocery store are feeling the heat, too. Associated British Foods saw the pullback hit U.S. sales of its Mazola cooking oils, which is the country's top-selling oil brand. "It's a bit miserable at the moment because our key customer is Hispanic and is feeling nervous and fearful, and they're cutting back on expenditure. It feels really recessionary in parts of the U.S. market," CEO George Weston said on the company's conference call on Thursday. Colgate-Palmolive also saw lower traffic from Hispanic consumers all across the business, the company's chief investor relations officer, John Faucher, said at the UBS Global Consumer and Retail Conference in March. The company on April 25 reported a 2.3% decline in North American volume for the first quarter. Still, Walmart , the nation's largest grocer, said the Trump's administration's immigration policy hasn't resulted in anything worth sharing yet. "It's a nonevent for us so far," CEO Doug McMillon said on the company's earnings call in mid-February.
Business Insider
03-05-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
American shoppers love having lots of options. Trump's trade war could end that.
If the past half century of American consumer life has had one defining feature, it's that the average shopper has a vast number of different product choices available. Donald Trump's trade war could upend that. Nearly 36 years ago, when Russian politician Boris Yeltsin toured a Texas grocery store, he famously thought the display was some sort of setup. "When I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, cartons and goods of every possible sort, for the first time I felt quite frankly sick with despair for the Soviet people," he later wrote. Since then, American retail stores have only gotten larger and more varied, and major retailers often tout the breadth of their assortment — measured in stock-keeping units, or SKUs — as a key measure of ability to give US shoppers new and exciting reasons to buy. The typical Walmart Supercenter has some 120,000 SKUs, while Amazon boasts of its ability to deliver tens of millions of unique items in two days or less. The two giants represent only a fraction of US retail. Many of these products are already sourced domestically, but the variety consumers have come to expect relies on an extensive global supply chain that delivers food and merchandise around the globe at astonishingly low prices. Now, Trump's tariffs on goods from other countries are starting to squeeze America's once-endless supplies of stuff. "There's definitely a trend towards limiting the inventory, the SKUs, cutting things by half," said Ben Dean, head of network for Flexe, a flexible warehousing service that works with several top retailers. "At the client conference we were at last week, we've had multiple say that they had just canceled purchase orders," he added. "So that has a direct impact on the assortment, as well as the depth of what's available to the American consumer." As cargo volumes plummet, execs from major retailers have warned Trump that US shoppers could start to see empty shelves in the coming weeks if his policies continue. Trump acknowledged in a cabinet meeting Wednesday that his policies could lead to fewer choices for holiday shoppers. "Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30" he said. "Maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally." Michigan State University professor and supply chain researcher Jason Miller explained the conundrum that toy wholesalers and retailers are grappling with due to Trump's 145% tariffs on imports from China, a major supplier to the US. "I'm going to be very, very, very cautious. I'm only going to import my best-sellers. I'm only going to import the stuff where I feel comfortable I can charge that higher price," he told Business Insider. "You're going to get a lot less product variety, and you're going to get a lot lower imports as a result of this. And we're starting to see those effects." Like toys, the apparel industry has seen a shift in production from the US to overseas, driven by the pursuit of both price and variety. Bayard Winthrop, founder and CEO of California-based apparel maker American Giant, told BI that US households spend roughly the same annual clothing budget now as they did in the 1980's, but with one important change. "In 1980 it represented about 60 items total for that family. Today, it's about 160," he said. "So there has been a structural shift away from lower volume, higher quality, towards higher volume, cheaper." Low prices and expansive choices were key selling points of increased globalization back in the 1990s, but Winthrop says those benefits have come at the cost of US jobs. "My hope is that there is this shift towards better quality stuff, made closer to home, that provides good, viable work to people that need it," he said. "If the effect of that is that average Americans need to begin to be a bit more conscious of how they're consuming, I'll take that trade." It's not clear that all American-made products are necessarily higher quality than imported ones, and shoppers may continue to buy goods at tariff-inflated prices. Still, one strong likelihood is emerging: American shoppers will soon have noticeably fewer choices about what they can buy.
