Contrary to popular belief, mergers are usually really good for consumers. So what’s wrong with a little beer marriage?

Good, moderately priced Bordeaux is out there, wines that convey if not the grandeur of the region’s best wines at least a sense of what’s so good about them.

Restaurants are betting that consumers accustomed to paying extra for holiday-weekend flights or V.I.P. seats at the theater will also pay more for a Saturday night dinner at 8.

Exciting wines that tell stories of places and people and cultures are available for relatively little money, from good reds and whites to sparklers and rosés.

Fresh or frozen? Dead and limp or alive and gobbling? For most of us, the price we pay for our turkey bears little relation to what it costs to raise it.

The Commerce Ministry said that it planned to release part of the central government’s 200,000-metric-ton stash of frozen pork onto the market.

Famine, war and the world’s other problems are served up on a plate — yours. Dinner is more expensive.

In downturns, companies reduce the size of some products, disguising price rises and avoiding comparisons on same-size packages.

The state’s fishermen brought 93 million pounds to shore last year, average prices rose to $3.31 a pound and a population boom continued.

A sharp increase in the price of the fiery national dish, caused in part by rising cabbage prices, has led the South Korean government to take action.