The fact that upscale grocery chain Whole Foods has long-term plans to operate up to 1,000 stores in the U.S. has been widely publicized recently. But it seems Whole Foods executives want to depart somewhat from their long-term site selection...
Does anyone remember going into a dedicated bricks-and-mortar music store? Those have have largely disappeared from the retail landscape a good five or six years ago. ...
Upscale grocery chain Whole Foods has some ambitious plans for new store openings in the next few years, especially considering how the supermarket segment overall is faring. ...
The Wall Street Journal revealed some of the details of Richard Schulze's plan to bring Best Buy back to relevance today. Apparently, Schulze's approach would involve lower prices in order to compete with Amazon.com and a great in-store experience...
Remember all those leveraged retail buyouts that took place in the mid-2000s? According to Fortune, they might be coming back, including in the just proposed Best Buy buyout. ...
It might be just a case of growing pains. But once more there are indications that Wal-Mart's new Express format isn't working out quite as planned. ...
Same-store sales posted by U.S. retailers this July beat analyst expectations with an increase of 4.6 percent, according to a report from Reuters. Thomson Reuters expected the increase to be a more modest 3.1 percent. ...
When we talk about retailers' international expansion, the idea of partnering with or acquiring local companies to gain instant market expertise is often cited as one of the best ways to enter new regions. It turns out that the locals might not be...
