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Best Buy is hoping to do in the electronics market what other retailers and manufacturers have done in the appliances market — promote energy efficiency. In fact, Best Buy believes this will give it competitive edge against the likes of Wal-Mart and Amazon.

Groupon nearly killed Amy Kunkle's Philadelphia business, Food for All, when an ill-advised offer selling a $30 coupon for $15 drove her thousands of dollars into a hole. But this week, the internet helped to save it.

The Borders near me closed the other month. Wasn't surprising. Ditto for Circuit City. Gone. A few years prior to that it was Hollywood Video that rolled its end credits. The problem is, none of them had to go. They each died of self-inflicted wounds.

eBay seller Custom LED filed a lawsuit against eBay on Monday over the marketplace's Featured Plus listing upgrade, which cost the seller up to $39.95 per listing. Readers may remember that eBay removed Featured Plus from eBay.com in 2009, but the feature is still available to sellers on eBay Motors for $24.95. According to the description of the Featured Plus listing upgrade found on the eBay Motors website today, "Your item appears in the Featured Items section at the top of the search results page (for Motors site searches)." But the plaintiff claims eBay added that parenthetical phrase "only

A number of online sellers who use Fulfillment by Amazon learned about the company's ban on hazardous materials the hard way. Citing its HazMat policy, Amazon destroyed their inventory, including such items as Glade plug-ins, first aid kits, hair coloring kits, perfume, nail polish and hair spray. Certain kinds of batteries are also banned, including when they're packaged with other products.

A Mickey Mouse T-shirt on sale at the Disney Store has started an uproar in the music community. The Disney Store has since pulled the shirt described as, "Inspired by the iconic sleeve of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album, this Waves Mickey Mouse Tee incorporates Mickey's image within the graphic of the pulse of a star."

Back in December, Amazon lured consumers to its site using its Price Check mobile app, which lets users compare prices on merchandise at offline retailers, with the intention of finding that Amazon's prices — sweetened by a $15 credit — were generally the least expensive and most convenient choice.

The first-ever comprehensive study on how consumers embrace video in a retail context, reveals that many of the common perceptions about how video is used in shopping are actually incorrect. Research shows consumers care more about the quality and content of the video than the actual length of the clip.

The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) has released the first industrywide Retail Sustainability Report. The 2012 report highlights sustainability leadership in the retail industry and discusses retail's environmental, social and community impacts — those impacts within a company's four walls, in the products they sell, and in the broader communities they touch.

Love them or hate them, two football titans will fight it out on Super Bowl Sunday, and more Americans than ever will join them to celebrate the big game. According to a new survey from the National Retail Federation 173 million people will watch the game and consumer spending for the Super Bowl will reach an all-time high, too, with the average game-watcher expected to shell out $63.87 on related merchandise, apparel and snacks, up from $59.33 last year.