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Premier shopping website Catalogs.com is extending its leading library of retail catalogs to the tablet device that is redefining the way we interact with content – the Apple iPad.

Neiman Marcus has launched a holiday-themed app for Apple's iPod Touch and iPhone, which offers free shipping and gift-wrap services.

Topeka, Kan.-based Payless ShoeSource Inc., a division of Collective Brands Inc., has signed franchise deals with Grupo AXO and MAP ACTIVE to bring the retail chain to Mexico, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, according to Reuters.

Americans are still operating with the recession in the back of their minds and many have fundamentally changed their shopping habits, some findings from NRF’s first holiday survey imply.

NEW YORK -- Limited Brands Inc. , the parent of Victoria's Secret and Bath & Body Works, could double the size of its about $9 billion in U.S. sales over the next five years, Chief Executive Leslie Wexner said at a meeting with analysts and investors in New York on Wednesday. The Columbus, Ohio-based company, which only in recent years started to experiment with international expansion, also has the potential to reap another $20 billion in sales outside of North America, Wexner said. Limited Brands shares rose 1.6% in midday trading. They've risen more than half this year.

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Target has reconfigured its smaller stores to fit its P-fresh format, introduced earlier in the year. The new stores will feature 90 percent of the categories found at a SuperTarget, but with much less of a selection.

Department store chain Loehmann's has announced it will be closing up to 15 stores over the next 12 months.

Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) announced that Mark K. Comstock has joined the co-op in the newly created role of VP real estate and store development. Comstock most recently served as VP real estate and facilities for T-Mobile USA.Mark’s leadership responsibilities include new store site acquisition and development, management of REI’s growing companywide portfolio of real estate assets, and facilities management of the co-op’s headquarters in Kent, Wash. The company currently operates 113 stores nationwide. It will open a store in Columbia, Md., in November.