Dollar General announced Monday morning that its 2011 expansion plan to open 625 new stores will allow it to hire 6,000 workers this year. The discount retailer plans to add stores in markets across its existing 35-state operat…
While news that Groupon has rebuffed Google’s $6 billion offer has stolen the limelight, Amazon’s $175 million investment in LivingSocial could end up shaking up the daily-deal business and helping the No. 2 e-coupon company ga…
Thrifty shoppers looking for low prices on basics are frequently passing up the big boxes of Walmart for the tighter aisles of their local dollar stores. The cheaper upstarts have replaced no-name products with nationally known…
Thrifty shoppers looking for low prices on basics are frequently passing up the big boxes of Walmart for the tighter aisles of their local dollar stores, which have replaced no-name products with nationally known brands and rev…
Borders Group Inc. is offering discounts on electronic readers throught the rest of the month as the retailer battles Amazon.com Inc. and Barnes & Noble Inc. for share of the rapidly growing e-reader market in advance of the ho…