The Daily Money

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Fri Dec 27 2024

Daniel de Visé | Personal Finance Reporter

Good morning! It's Daniel de Visé with your Daily Money. For our last consumer edition of 2024, we'll look back at a few popular and quirky consumer stories from the past year.

•	Bath & Body Works pulled a seasonal candle from its shelves this fall after complaints the snowflake design on its label resembled Ku Klux Klan hoods.
•	Amid a fall port strike, we briefly returned to hoarding toilet paper.
•	Last summer, McDonald's trotted out a fast-food combo you didn't know you needed: a Happy Meal for adults.
•	Costco expanded into weight-loss management.
•	Matthew and Camila McConaughey went without pants -- something they evidently had done before -- to promote a tequila brand.
•	In the latest cybersecurity scare, over the summer, someone leaked 10 billion passwords to a hacking site.
•	And, for the holidays, we met the voices behind some of our favorite talking toys.

Happy reading.

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About The Daily Money

Each weekday, The Daily Money delivers the best consumer and financial news from USA TODAY, breaking down complex events, providing the TLDR version, and explaining how everything from Fed rate changes to bankruptcies impacts you.

Daniel de Visé covers personal finance for USA TODAY.