For retailers, this Christmas season is expected to be brighter than last year, even as continuing economic anxiety puts a damper on spending. Clothes, toys and video games are expected to do well in 2010.
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Nothing in the layout of a retail store is random, from the baskets of enticing new products near the entrance to the packs of gum around the cash register. Retailers have come up with at least a half-dozen tricky tactics to am…
Retailer Kohl’s said on Wednesday that it plans to hire 40,000 temporary workers during this year’s holiday season at stores, distribution centers and credit operations nationwide — 7,000 more than last year. The shopping sea…
Women’s clothing retailer Talbots’ also cut its revenue forecast for the third quarter and full fiscal year 2010. Despite CEO Trudy Sullivan’s best effort to explain, investors aren’t pleased.
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In 1999, Priceline saw its stock surge to absurd heights before it had earned a cent in profit, and after the bubble burst, it lost more than 99% of its value. But from that low, the discount travel site began a hard journey to…