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ThinkstockRetailers do not appear to be headed for uniformly upbeat sales increases in December. Research firm Retail Metrics has dropped…
ThinkstockThe holiday shopping season got off to a fast start, but concluded with a whimper and not the anticipated bang.…
ThinkstockCustomer satisfaction research firm ForeSee released its Holiday E-Retail Satisfaction Index for this year, and the overall score for online…
courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.What happened to bricks-and-mortar and e-commerce sales this holiday season? If Wall St.’s opinion has validity,…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning after the weekly report on new claims for U.S. unemployment benefits came in…
The stock market is up Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.30%, the Nasdaq up 0.62% and the…
ThinkstockIf you have ever heard of retailers getting more and more desperate to capture your Christmas and holiday spending dollars,…
U.S. equity markets opened slightly higher this morning, but by the end of the first hour stocks had turned south…
ThinkstockApparently many executives decided to sell shares right before the presidential election. This is not an assumption that anything is…
thinkstockKohl’s Corp. (NYSE: KSS) reported third-quarter 2012 earnings this morning. For the quarter, the department store chain posted diluted earnings…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning as traders and investors tried to sort out their reactions to the re-election…
thinkstockAs third quarter earnings results continue to pour in, overall earnings have been decidedly weaker. According to research firm Retail…
Package delivery giant United Parcel Service Inc. (NYSE: UPS) said yesterday that it plans to hire 55,000 seasonal workers to…
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) will hire more than 50,000 seasonal workers to staff up its 40 U.S. fulfillment centers for…
Despite the many economic headwinds still facing the U.S., much of the retail industry is anticipating a sharply improved holiday…
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