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…
I’m a big admirer of the sleek point-of-sale system that allows Apple Store employees to run credit card transactions on iPhones or iPod Touch devices. Now, Apple is going to offer its POS system to other retailers, a move that…
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…
In Asia Monday Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index gained 1.3% and Japan’s Nikkei 225 Index advanced 0.9%, buoyed by retail gains in the U.S. over the Thanksgiving weekend. But in China the Shanghai Composite Index slid 0.2% as investo…
Expect your T-shirts to get a little bit thinner next year — and maybe a little more expensive. Apparel retailers are looking high and low for ways to keep from passing on too much of their own rising costs to consumers. The t…