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Macy’s has taken steps to improve customers’ shopping experience in-store and on the go via enhanced mobile offerings.

Sports Authority has added a second location-based service to its apparently successful experiment with Foursquare, launched in May.

The department store industry, coming off its worst year in three decades of market share decline, is mounting an all-out battle for the next generation of shoppers. After years of looking the other way as H&M, Forever 21, Zara and an ever-expanding array of online retailers captured the under-25 market, department stores are pouring money and effort into winning them back.

Online jewelry retailer Blue Nile has found success with a model that offers lower-priced luxury pieces by spending little on marketing and avoiding the operating overhead of brick-and-mortar competitors.

Cincinnati-based Macy's Inc. plans to expand its Tennessee warehouse in order to accommodate its growing online sales, according to Businessweek.com.

Wal-Mart has been candid about its mistakes in the way it pared back assortment in recent months. In a presentation for investors, Bill Simon, CEO of its U.S. division, shed some light on how the retailer is hoping to win back the shoppers it sent away.

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A Betsey Johnson store in California and a novelties e-tailer will each launch Facebook Places campaigns today. The location-based efforts represent the first-ever Places initiatives, marking the beginning of what promises to be a growing trend among Facebook marketers.

PHOENIX, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Leslie's Poolmart, Inc., the nation's leading retailer of swimming pool supplies and related products is excited to announce the acquisition of seven retail stores in the heart of Texas.

Gary Friedman, Restoration Hardware's chairman and co-CEO, says the brand has destroyed the previous iteration of itself, clearing the way to express itself in a never-before-seen fashion. A statement about the relaunch is in a 56-page direct mail piece that went out in late August and is also on the company's redesigned website, which proclaims the retailer to be "reinvented, remodeled, reborn."