The world's biggest retailer after Wal-Mart is finally tapping the property market to bring up some cash for its shareholders. On Thursday France's Carrefour announced it would sell a chunk of its enormous real estate portfolio through an initial...
Large grocery and discount stores across the country have been targeted by a caller who threatens to blow up shoppers and workers with a bomb if employees fail to wire money to an account overseas, authorities said. Frightened workers have wired...
China is tightening its grip once more on foreign investors in Chinese real estate, banning them from borrowing offshore in the latest effort to tame property prices and cool the economy. The new rule, set out in a circular from the State...
As we've documented before, an increasing number of U.S. mall owners are adopting curfews to control teen populations at their properties. But here's an interesting solution being tried in Canada. ...
For a closer look at China's sizzling economy, walk the marble floors of Beijing's latest luxury mall. From its Japanese-style food court selling $4 chocolate éclairs to its glittering floors of branded international fashion, Shin Kong Place is a...
Job postings on Wal-Mart Stores Inc. 's Web site are not necessarily a sign that the world's largest retailer is preparing a new, smaller-store format to respond to changing shopper patterns and the impending U. S. arrival of No. 1 British...
In a long post about the evolution of Dunkin Donuts--which is interesting in its own right--Caldor Rainbow has a neat tidbit: a photo of what it believes to be the new Dunkin Donuts concept. ...
