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Recent numbers from the U.S. retail industry may reveal less about retail recovery and more about retailers’ willingness to believe in recovery. While the 2010 domestic and global expansion lists are growing longer, the 2010 Store Closings list is not as insignificant this year as the store openings list was ...
When the stars strutted down the red carpet of the 82nd annual Academy Awards event, the fashion police were eager to identify all the worsts that make the best dish, but the U.S. retail industry was rooting for the good taste of this year’s stylists and designers. The longer the ...
Beyond the focus on numbers and forecasts in the earnings reporting season, the U.S. retail industry has also been focused on the business of retailing, which, by necessity, includes strategies that are both green and healthy. Consumers are expecting a greater commitment to green and healthy practices from major retail ...
Beyond the focus on numbers and forecasts in the earnings reporting season, the U.S. retail industry has also been focused on the business of retailing, which, by necessity, includes strategies that are both green and healthy. Consumers are expecting a greater commitment to green and healthy practices from major retail ...
This is a busy reporting week for the U.S. retail industry. Sears (SHLD), Macy’s (M), RadioShack (RSH), Nordstrom (JWN), TJ Maxx (TJX), Limited Brands (LTD), Target (TGT), Dollar Tree (DLTR), Gap (GPS), Kohl’s (KSS), Lowe’s (LOW), Safeway (SWY), Office Depot (ODP), Saks (SKS), America’s Car Mart (CRMT), and Caribou Coffee ...
This is a busy reporting week for the U.S. retail industry. Sears (SHLD), Macy’s (M), RadioShack (RSH), Nordstrom (JWN), TJ Maxx (TJX), Limited Brands (LTD), Target (TGT), Dollar Tree (DLTR), Gap (GPS), Kohl’s (KSS), Lowe’s (LOW), Safeway (SWY), Office Depot (ODP), Saks (SKS), America’s Car Mart (CRMT), and Caribou Coffee ...
The U.S. retail industry has the unique ability to transform just about any minor occasion into a major consuming opportunity. As creative as they can be, retailers are always happy to see holiday celebrations, major sporting events, and long weekends roll around on the retail calendar because these are the ...
If Super Bowl XLIII was dubbed the Recession Bowl, then Super Bowl XLIV can rightfully claim to be the Recovery Bowl, as some consumer stats rose and advertisers placed big multi-million dollar bets. The world’s most popular advertising commercial showcase was dominated by the incompatible combination of beer and autos, ...
Fifteen members of the U.S. retail industry were designated to be 2010 “Best Companies to Work For” on Fortune Magazine’s most recently released ranking list. A look at a five-year comparison of Fortune’s best retail employers reveals that these same fifteen companies are denizens of this particular ranking list. EBay ...
There may not have been a lot of sales in the U.S. retail industry in the first two weeks of 2010, but there were plenty of numbers. Unlike this time last year, 2010 store closings are in the hundreds, instead of the thousands, job cuts are in the thousands instead ...
The easiest way to summarize the value of an entire year is to cherry-pick the most dramatic happenings and highlight them on one neat and tidy best and worst list. It’s a traditional New Year exercise and the compulsion to do it this year seems to be particularly strong. That’s ...
American shoppers are working the last nerve of the U.S. retail industry this holiday shopping season with last-minute shopping activity that has forced many retail chains to increase their own last-minute activities. Many major retail chains have unexpectedly extended their store hours this week in order to increase the number ...