Retail News

Nov. 27 -- Brian Dunn, chief executive officer at Best Buy Co. Inc., talks with Bloomberg's Betty Liu about the outlook for the holiday shopping season.

Canada's top court has ruled in favour of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in a dispute over union organizing efforts at a store in Quebec.

Retailers are beefing up security for today's rush of bargain-hunting customers, pledging better control of waiting lines, more in-store assistance and longer hours.

Chesapeake, Va. Dollar Tree again raised its fiscal-year forecast as its third-quarter earnings rose a much stronger-than-expected 58% on increased customer traffic and sales.

Wal-Mart Stores' demand for rock-bottom prices from suppliers in the mainland means some of these companies are forcing their employees to work in sweatshop-like conditions, a new report said on Wednesday.

When the biggest shopping day of the year arrives at 12 a.m. Friday, the crowds are predicted to be as robust as ever.

Put the turkey on autopilot. With holiday retail sales projected to be anemic, some familiar chains will open their doors on Thanksgiving Day - several nationally for the first time.

Actor Zac Efron attends a screening of 'Me And Orson Welles' hosted by the Cinema Society, Screenvision and Brooks Brothers at Clearview Chelsea Cinemas on November 23, 2009 in New York City.

After six months of negotiations, unionized Colorado grocery workers at Safeway and Kroger Co.'s King Soopers and City Market chains are going to start voting on the companies' last, best and final contract offers.

The market's gains were modest on light trading volume ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.

So that's why no one on Twitter likes Microsoft. To remind holiday shoppers about their new OS Windows 7, Microsoft recently bought a display window in legendary New York department store Saks Fifth Avenue.

The nation's largest traditional grocery chain is getting into the Black Friday shopping game.

In November 2008, Nassau County police examine the front of the Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, N.Y., where a temporary store worker died after a throng of shoppers broke down the doors on Black Friday.

Strong overseas sales and cost-cutting kept a decline in Tiffany & Co.'s third-quarter profit to a bare minimum, causing the luxury jeweler to raise its full-year profit outlook heading into the crucial holiday season.

Windstream Corporation announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Iowa Telecommunications Services, Inc.

The post-Thanksgiving shopping weekend will be important for American Eagle Outfitters, which this morning reported sales in established stores fell 5 percent in the first three weeks of November.

J. Crew Group Inc., seller of clothes, shoes and accessories, said Tuesday its profit more than doubled in the third quarter as sales rose by a double-digit percentage.

The Penn Traffic Co. has told New York officials it will close dozens of supermarkets in upstate New York and lay off more than 4,000 employees.

George Weston Ltd. says its third-quarter net earnings dropped 52 per cent from year ago levels largely because of the negative impact of foreign exchange losses.

Barnes & Noble on Tuesday posted a loss in the fiscal second quarter and lowered its guidance due to expected weak holiday sales and higher-than-expected costs to ramp up production of its electronic book reader, the Nook.