Meeting Of The Minds
Nov 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
A budding relationship between electronics big-box retailer Best Buy and Apple, Inc. will expand a line of Apple stores-within-stores at Best Buy locations...
Holding Back on Luxe
Nov 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
One of the defining trends of the retail industry in the past decade has been a great hollowing out of the middle. Mid-tier chains have struggled or disappeared...
Pop Go the Toys
Nov 1, 2007
Toys'R'Us is going the pop-up shop route with a temporary store in New York City. What's odd about that is pop-up shops are usually used when retailers...
Doctoring Sales
Nov 1, 2007, By Riccardo A. Davis
The doctor will see you now. Don't be surprised to hear that phrase the next time you visit your neighborhood pharmacy. Drugstore chains have joined the...
Holiday Forecast Calls for Mild Slowdown in Luxury Sales
Oct 3, 2007
To date in 2007, luxury chains have remained retail stars. Luxury department store chains have averaged same-store sales gains of 8.6 percent per month this year--higher than either 2005 or 2006. With the exception of June--when sales grew just 1.8 percent--the sector has soared....
Back-to-School Jitters
Oct 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
Looking for a sign that this year's holiday shopping season will be slow? Check the back-to-school numbers. As the eight-week-long season (the second...
Scalding-Hot Coffee Wars
Oct 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
The coffee wars scorch on. Retail wunderkind Starbucks Corp. has come up with a few new tricks in recent months in its attempts to widen the lead it has...
Back-to-School Sales Jitters For Retailers
Sep 6, 2007
Looking for a sign that this year's holiday shopping season will be slow? Check the back-to-school numbers. With about two weeks to go in the eight-week long season (the second most important of the year for retailers), all indications are that sales will be down from the past two years. ...
Net Connection
Sep 1, 2007, Elaine Misonzhnik
In a bid to provide a more convenient shopping experience for its customers (and lift its sagging sales), electronics retailer Circuit City Stores, Inc....
For Here or to Go?
Sep 1, 2007, Riccardo A. Davis
Some grocers are taking the rise in the popularity of prepared foods really seriously by opening their own sit-down restaurants independent from stores....
