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[ad_1] Warren Buffett said he's happiest when eating dessert and drinking Coke — and would give up a year of his life to keep doing so. "I always tell people: I found everything I like to eat by the time I was six," Buffett said Wednesday in an interview with Becky Quick on CNBC's " Squawk Box" in Tokyo. "I mean, why should I fool around with all these other foods?" The 92-year-old, with a diet that famously consists of junk food and sugary beverages , said it would hypothetically be better to lose a year of his life than to eat foods considered healthier. The Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO is known for, among other habits, stopping at McDonald's each day on the way to work for breakfast. And Buffett said he had Hershey's Kisses before the interview. "I know all these people eat all these green things and everything," he said. "But if somebody told me I would live an extra year if I ate nothing but broccoli and ...

[ad_1] A shopper in the seasonal aisle of a Target store on Black Friday in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022. US retailers are bracing for a slower-than-normal Black Friday as high inflation and sagging consumer sentiment erode Americans demand for material goods. Photographer: Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images As holiday shopping season begins, lack of big orders from retailers is the rule amid fears that consumer spending will be weak, according to a new CNBC Supply Chain Survey. At C.H. Robinson , which serves 7,500 retailers, customers are generally being cautious, said Noah Hoffman, vice president for North American Surface Transportation, with inflation still an issue and ongoing uncertainty about the U.S. economy and risk of recession. "The largest retailers are past working through their excess inventories, but careful not to over-order," Hoffman said, while some of the small- to medium-sized retailer...