Evening links — October 7, 2026

McDonald’s pricing tool lands in an antitrust lawsuit <The Guardian>
A customer alleges the chain’s pricing tool coordinates supposedly independent franchisees; McDonald’s says stores set their own prices and the optional software does not fix them.

Bed Bath’s latest reinvention loses its finance chief <Retail Dive>
The CFO of the company now called Neighborhood Intelligence quit months after its Container Store deal, just as it announced $45.5 million in new financing and brought in an interim executive from its restructuring adviser.

Microsoft recruits Nvidia for its $2,600 MacBook rival <The Verge>
The Surface Laptop Ultra puts Nvidia’s first Arm-based PC chip inside a machine starting at $2,599.99—a bid to prove Windows laptops can compete at the expensive end of Apple’s market.