Jennifer Duell Popovec

The most wonderful time of the year wasn’t all that wonderful for Macy’s Inc. The department store chain saw its same-store sales fall 4.7 percent in November and December...

Activist investor Carl Icahn has won the bidding war for Pep Boys, beating out Bridgestone Corp. to claim the Philadelphia-based automotive aftermarket chain. The deal is valued at roughly $1 billion—a...

Big-box stores have been more vulnerable to online shopping than other retailers because they usually sell commodity-type products, yet experts say that e-commerce can actually strengthen these big boxes. As long as...

The Federal Trade Commission intends to challenge Staples’ $6.3 billion acquisition of Office Depot, the two remaining big-box office supply retailers. The companies, which announced the merger in...

The fourth quarter always brings a flurry of investment sales activity market players try to close deals before year end and retail REITs will probably close a few deals. But their acquisition activity this year is...

Now that most retail REITs have reported their third quarter results and provided an outlook for 2016, one thing has become very clear—tenant issues are accelerating, creating a more challenging environment for...

Department store chain Kohl’s is aggressively pursuing new distribution channels, including smaller format stores, outlet stores and the expansion of Off-Aisle, its pilot concept that is stocked exclusively with...

Many countries are known for their sophisticated palates—France, Italy, Spain—but the United States has never been one of them… until now. Finally, the food culture in America has evolved to the...