St. Charles, MO - November 2, 2022 - The St. Charles Regional Chamber is proud to announce the new ShopSt.C Digital Gift Card, a community-based gift card that makes it fun and easy to keep local spending local. To purchase ShopSt.C Digital Gift Cards and view a growing list of our participatin...

Have you found yourself in a new scenario, whether it be from your childhood or time in school, where you learned something you didn't expect? Maybe you had stretches of free time over the summer where you explored and discovered something new.

The US economy grew much faster than expected in the third quarter, according to the latest gross domestic product report, which showed GDP rose by an annualized rate of 2.9%. That's an improvement from the initial government reading in October that showed 2.6% growth in economic activity, and better than the Refinitiv forecast of 2.7%.

Little-known fact: Neapolitan pizza isn't technically Neapolitan unless it's certified by Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana (AVPN) in Italy. About three weeks ago, Noto Italian Restaurant officially joined the ranks, making it the first and only restaurant in St. Louis to achieve the prestigious certification, which has only been awarded to around 100 other restaurants throughout North and South America.

It might seem as if having a transparent system of core values is only crucial in "big business," but that is not the case. The development of any company highly depends on how correctly these values are set and whether the team's actions follow them.

There's a reason it's called "accepting" a compliment-it's a true undertaking to receive praise. You want to do so in a way that feels humble, confident, and gracious all at the same time. But how? I have to consciously work to avoid deflecting or flat out rejecting compliments, but this makes everyone involved feel worse from the interaction.

ST. CHARLES, Mo. - Customers took advantage of holiday deals and shopped at local mom-and-pop shops on Main Street in St. Charles as "Christmas Traditions" kicked off. Many tourists flocked to Main Street in St. Charles to do their shopping. Customers showed up to show their support regardless of the gift of choice.

Whether it's a busy season or an unexpected event, life can be busy and stressful. It's easy to say leave your problems at the door, but sometime common life stressors can affect employees' personal lives so much that it creeps into their professional life.

An auto parts distributor will occupy most of the space in a warehouse building under construction in St. Charles County. Reaction Auto Parts Inc. signed a lease to move its distribution space, taking 265,393 square feet in the newest warehouse built at Premier 370 Business Park in St.

Money is tight these days. Holiday shopping, ballooning inflation, and a looming recession have forced people to more carefully consider their finances. Those factors might help explain the explosion of "buy now, pay later" services.

Why do people hate performance reviews? Maybe because, according to surveys, most of us don't think they're fair. A team of researchers set out to examine this in more detail. In four studies based on the data collected from 1,024 American and Dutch employees, they compared two types of reference points: employees who were compared against each other, and employees whose current performance was compared against their own past performance.