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ThinkstockSwedish do-it-yourself furniture store IKEA will begin selling home solar panel kits in the U.K. over the next 10 months. The kit will cost about $9,200 and generate 3,360 watts of...
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TwitterIn among the major and minor celebrities, news media outlets, the Pope and President Obama, there are no huge corporations with substantial followings on Twitter. As a matter of fact, among...
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courtesy Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Update: This story edited to include Walmart’s denial of a report of a cut in orders. Mega-retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has denied as “blatantly false”...
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courtesy Making Change at Walmart and UFCWWal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is the king of retailing, with the largest presence of all retailers with more than 2 million workers and with what may be...
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ThinkstockMajor U.S. retailers are announcing their hiring plans for the coming holiday shopping season, and the first two announcements have come in below last year’s totals. Kohl’s Corp. (NYSE:...
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ThinkstockRetail sales during the 2013 holiday shopping season are forecast to rise by 2.4%, but store traffic is expected to decline by 1.4% from year-ago levels. Compared with last year’s sales...
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Wikimedia Commons/creative commonsThe announcement must have sent shudders down the backs of fast-food chain and big-box retail chief executive officers. Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., Senate...
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courtesy of Apple Inc.In what might be an unprecedented move by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), the company apparently has agreed to permit Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) to sell the iPhone 5C and...
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ThinkstockHowever rich some portion of America has become, there is another slice that cannot afford to buy food. If 1% of people in the United States control an extraordinary amount of the wealth,...
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JoeInQueens, via Wikimedia CommonsElvis Costello is musical guest, how sad Apple iPhone 5S price points 16 GB for $199, and 32 GB for $299, and 64 GB for $399. Does not seem like much of a change....
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courtesy Wal-Mart Stores Inc.As the protests about wages paid to workers at retail and fast-food giants like Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) and McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) grow, protesters...
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ThinkstockRetailers are announcing August same-store sales figures today. Research firm Retail Metrics projected an overall gain of 3.2% year-over-year, compared with a 4.2% gain in July and a 4.3%...
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ThinkstockThe last, and largest, of the discount variety stores reports second quarter earnings tomorrow. Dollar General Corp. (NYSE: DG) is expected to post earnings per share (EPS) of $0.74 on...
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ThinkstockAs retail and fast-food workers strike across 60 cities as a means to get their employers to raise wages as high as $15 an hour, most Americans support the labor union system, a fact that...
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ThinkstockLabor Day is always an interesting holiday, and it has serious ramifications on consumer spending and on the economy. The 2013 back-to-school spending has been down after a record 2012, and...
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