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A small shop owner is standing up against Amazon.com and its recent promotion urging customers shopping in brick-and-mortar stores to use its price check app. By scanning a barcode in the store, Amazon would give the customer a 5 percent discount, up to five dollars.

After a slew of online orders were cancelled in November and December when Best Buy couldn’t keep up with demand, the company issued the following statement: “What was wrong is that there was an unacceptable delay between order confirmations and cancellations, and for that we are very sorry,” said Susan Busch, senior director of Best Buy’s public relations.

When Kmart acquired Sears in 2005, Chairman Edward Lampert said the new company would have the geographic reach and scale to compete with Wal-Mart.

Last week, RIS News brought you the top 10 retailers to work for based on the Good Company Retail Index in which 52 of the nation's biggest retailers are ranked by how they treat employees, customers and the planet. This week we present the retailers that didn't quite make the grade — ranking 42 to 52 — or the bottom 10 retailers to work for.

The Mint empire, which includes StyleMint, Kate Bosworth's jewelry site JewelMint, and Rachel Bilson's venture ShoeMint, have announced shipping to Canada is officially in effect.

Perfume and fragrance retailer Perfumania announced Dec. 23 that it will acquire Parlux Fragrances Inc. in a deal valued at $170 million. Parlux, based in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., manufactures and distributes fragrances and beauty products, and is one of Perfumania's largest trading partners.

Consumers across the U.S. took advantage of discounts on the day after Christmas, which this year was a holiday and a potential boon to retailers aiming for a strong finish to the shopping season.

Minnesota's Mall of America erupted into a 200-person melee on Dec. 27. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that the ungainly "young people" started the brawl at "about 4:20 PM." What started as a single fight in the food court snowballed into an anarchic mob that ripped through the corridors of post-holiday sales.

Here’s psfk's annual look at the most creative, eye-catching, and artistic holiday window displays from retailers around New York City. Some of our examples successfully use strong visual presentation to grab attention. Bergdorf Goodman transformed paper, glass and metal into a series of animal themed displays. Saks constructed three-dimensional cartoon machinery which ‘made’ bubbles.

Between 100 and 120 Sears and Kmart stores will be closed, the retailer said this morning, after terrible holiday sales during what's the most crucial time of the year for retailers. Sears has yet to determine which stores will be closed, but there has been a clear shift in where the retailer will devote its resources.