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Mike Thrift

Marketing Manager

Dick's Sporting Goods FY2026 Q2 Earnings: The First Full Foot Locker Quarter After a $2.5B Deal

DICK'S Sporting Goods FY2026 Q2: net sales $5,587M (+53% on the first full Foot Locker quarter), net income $315M (−17%), diluted EPS $3.50 (−26%) on ~9.6M deal shares. DICK'S Business comps grew +4.9% with World Cup lift while Foot Locker pro forma comps fell −3.6%; goodwill of $837M, intangibles of $763M, and up to $750M of contemplated unproductive-asset charges track the $2.5B integration — all in a public Beancount ledger spanning FY2021–FY2026Q2.

Dollar General FY2026 Q2 Earnings: $550M Profit on a 127 bp Margin Bridge

Dollar General FY2026 Q2: net sales $11.29B (+5.2%), same-store sales +3.5% on traffic +2.0%, and net income $550M (+33.8%). Roughly 81 of the 127 basis points of gross-margin expansion to 32.6% came from tariff refunds after reinvestments, diluted EPS of $2.48 includes an estimated $0.25 refund benefit, and full-year net-sales growth guidance was raised to 4.0%–4.3% — all tracked in a public Beancount ledger spanning FY2021–FY2026Q2.

El Salvador Now Asks Just 90 Days a Year: A Freelancer's Guide to the New Residency Math

Since March 31, 2026, El Salvador's Decreto 531 requires temporary residents to spend only 90 calendar days a year in the country instead of roughly nine months. Here is how the three main residency routes compare, what territorial tax and the U.S. foreign earned income exclusion actually cover, and the ledger habits that keep presence days, income sourcing, and renewal files audit-ready.

FMCSA's Non-Domiciled CDL Crackdown and Dalilah's Law: The 2026 Driver-Verification Checklist for Carriers and Brokers

The March 16, 2026 FMCSA final rule limits non-domiciled CDLs to H-2A, H-2B, and E-2 drivers with SAVE verification, roadside English-proficiency failures are out-of-service violations, and penalties for permitting a disqualified driver to operate top $23,000 each — here are the five checks carriers and brokers should run before every dispatch.

When "Free" Isn't Free: What the FTC's $60 Million Instacart Settlement Means for Your Pricing, Guarantees, and Free Trials

The FTC's December 2025 Instacart settlement priced three common practices at $60 million in refunds — "free delivery" with a mandatory service fee, a satisfaction guarantee paid out in credits, and trials converting without express consent — and this checklist maps each allegation onto disclosure, guarantee, and ROSCA subscription rules small businesses must follow.