Big Box Retailers News

The day after Thanksgiving, dubbed Black Friday, supposedly marks the start of the holiday shopping season - but more and more retailers seem unwilling to wait until then.

You don't need to line up at 4 a.m. to beat the bargain hunters on Black Friday.

Consumer confidence rebounded slightly this month, according to the Conference Board , which has the uncanny ability to take good news and make it bad.

Retailers are thinking beyond Cyber Monday -- a holiday marketing promotion many push for the Monday after Thanksgiving -- and trying to spin their discounts into into Cyber Weekends or even Cyber Weeks.

After months of working with the city plan commission on traffic and environmental studies, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

15 meeting. Al Pond moved to approve with conditions the Church of Scientologya s rezoning request for its building at 5395 Roswell Road, seconded by Wayne Thatcher.

Video Only customer Doug Niemi, center, talks Thursday with employee Victor Martinez about the Niemi's next purchase at the Tukwila store.

America on Trial, via Khalid Sheikh Moha... One of my favorite books is by a conservative.

The California Energy Commission voted unanimously Wednesday afternoon to pull the plug on some TVs that eat too much energy.

Patrons of a Wal Mart at Mountain Home will soon be able to buy beer and wine from the store.

My favorite day of the year is coming up. Noa not my birthday. Noa not Halloween.

Beer and wine are coming to Walmart's store shelves in Mountain Home. In a 5-0 vote, the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board today approved an application by Walmart Supercenter in Mountain Home for a permit to sell beer and "small-farm" wines, which come from wineries that produce 250,000 gallons or less of wine per year.

Member of the Glebe Business Improvement Association had their say at City Council Friday afternoon on the second day of public presentations on the Lansdowne Live development proposal.

World stock markets continued to trade higher Monday after figures showed U.S. retail sales rose strongly in October, but largely due to a big rebound in auto sales.

NOW that Kathmandu has floated successfully - as opposed to the lacklustre Myer performance and the failure of the Investa offering - private equity groups with retail assets are not likely to shy away from plans for forthcoming listings.

Straight ex-spouses speak up for marriage equality : "They are federal workers and professionals, men and women who share little except that their former spouses tried to live as heterosexuals but at some point realized they could not." British town mourns albino squirrel .

Dollar General Corp., the discount retailer controlled by private-equity firm KKR & Co., climbed in its first day of trading after selling shares at the low end of the range it sought in a $824 million initial public offering.

The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office is sponsoring a second 'Operation Medicine Cabinet' on Saturday, Nov.

Wal-Mart Stores In c. reported strong fiscal third-quarter earnings of 84 cents per share, which surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 81 cents.

Kosher salmon fillets are on display in Costco's new store in Manhattan, which opens today.