Target brings back design focus with Dwell collection

The collaboration with Dwell Magazine features more than 120 indoor and outdoor items with midcentury-influenced design aesthetics.

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 11, 2016

Macy's to launch e-commerce site for China market in 2017

The retailer began selling in China last year via Alibaba's Tmall Global storefront, offering products from brands including Tommy Hilfiger and Fossil.

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 10, 2016

Ralph Lauren taps founder's son to lead innovation

Analysts have long suspected David Lauren would be the heir to the fashion house.

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 10, 2016

JC Penney brings greeters to retail stores

Not all employees like the idea because it’s creating longer checkout lines and taking them away from other tasks, according to a report.

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 10, 2016

Trade groups call for US to blacklist Alibaba over fakes

Despite several efforts in the past to fight counterfeit sales, Alibaba has failed to mollify brands. 

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 10, 2016

Chico's names new president to turn around struggling brand

Layoffs and weak sales have plagued the apparel brand as it aims to regain traction among its core customer base of older women.

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 10, 2016

L Brands, Gap outpace September expectations

Gap is still depending on Old Navy for its salvation, while L Brands is turning to Bed Bath & Beyond to fill that role.

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 7, 2016

E-commerce darlings Warby Parker, Bonobos plot major brick-and-mortar expansion

Disruptive, data-driven web retailers are crunching the numbers and calculating that physical stores are instrumental to their success.

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 7, 2016

Target experiments with in-store vertical farms

A collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and design firm IDEO on urban farming may soon bear fruit for the retailer’s shelves.

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 7, 2016

Wal-Mart slows store openings as focus turns to e-commerce

“I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say we are going through a transformative period,” Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillon told investors and analysts Thursday.

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 7, 2016

Bed Bath & Beyond pilots premium membership program to replace coupons

For $29 a year, customers receive 20% discounts on all purchases and free shipping on online transactions.

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 6, 2016

Wal-Mart doubling e-commerce warehouses, stake in JD.com

The brick-and-mortar behemoth is doubling its web-focused warehouses to 10 by the end of this year and installing automated product sorting and item tracking technologies.

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 6, 2016

VF CEO stepping down, COO named successor

Steven Rendle will replace longtime CEO Eric C. Wiseman, who oversaw years of growth at the company, which runs apparel brands such as Timberland.

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 6, 2016

Reis: Upscale mall vacancies fall in Q3, offsetting strip mall struggles

Regional malls catering to wealthier shoppers continue to perform better than smaller strip malls, but signs of employment growth and rising incomes should help both categories.

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 6, 2016

Heading into holidays, Amazon and Google showdown plays out in ads

Google’s announcement of an AI-integrated home assistant yesterday followed Amazon’s launch of an enormous Alexa campaign.

By Peter Adams • Oct. 5, 2016

Sears shares soar on reports of Craftsman sale talks

Final bids, which could value the tools unit's brand at some $2 billion, are due at the end of the month.

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 5, 2016

Toys 'R' Us sells iconic toy unit FAO Schwarz

Buyer ThreeSixty Group designs, sources and distributes consumer products under a portfolio of owned and licensed brands including Sharper Image, Discovery Kids, Smithsonian and Animal Planet.

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 5, 2016

Criteo acquires e-commerce ad exhange HookLogic for $250M

HookLogic partners with retailers including Wal-Mart, Target, Costco and Best Buy to sell sponsored ads that appear in product search results on their web pages.

By Dan O'Shea • Oct. 4, 2016

Best Buy to pay $3.8M penalty over sales of recalled products

The electronics retailer knowingly sold some 600 recalled items from 2010 to 2015, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 4, 2016

Sears CEO insists Kmart is not closing

Edward Lampert published a letter Monday denying that Kmart is liquidating, the second time in 10 weeks the company has had to quash rumors of its demise.

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 4, 2016

Trump vs. Clinton: How the next US president could shape retail's future

The election's heated rhetoric is already distracting from holiday shopping. But the candidates' stances on three policy issues critical to retail — trade, tax reform and labor — could have a much bigger impact.

By Corinne Ruff • Oct. 3, 2016

Rent the Runway ends employee bonuses, raises salaries

Jenn Hyman, cofounder and CEO, said the decision comes after repeated feedback from employees that bonuses were "a distraction from learning."

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 3, 2016

Embattled Rue21 replaces CEO Fisch

Longtime CFO Keith McDonough will take over as interim CEO while the teen apparel retailer's board of directors searches for a permanent replacement.

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 3, 2016

UPDATE: Bass Pro Shops acquires Cabela's for $5.5B

The deal will likely invite antitrust scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission, considering the dominance of both retailers in the outdoor and sporting goods space. 

By Daphne Howland • Oct. 3, 2016

H&M warns disappointing sales could extend into Q4

The fast-fashion retailer blamed quarterly profit declines on the strong dollar and increased discounts forced by hotter-than-expected weather.

By Daphne Howland • Sept. 30, 2016