The Dollar Store category is seeing some serious new developments as the largest player gets challenged by the investment community while the entire channel faces
Anchors Away
If you really want to see where physical retailing is most vulnerable, look no further than the B, C and D level malls out there.
Flip of the Penney Coin
Time continues to run out for JCPenney. Sooner or later — probably sooner — the company will need to decide how it’s going to save
Tears for Sears…
What better way to end the year than with yet another chapter in the ongoing soap opera that is Sears. Spoiler alert: the end is
Gassed
Forget about Wall Street, tax legislation, unemployment rates and government shutdowns. What really impacts the mood of the American shopper more than any other single
Sending Out an SOS
Pier 1 is sinking…fast. Yesterday, it fired its CEO, trashed his slow-moving turnaround plan, secured what could be some last-ditch financing and, most tellingly, hired