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Bemused motorists took photographs of the huge J.C. Penney billboard advertising a tea kettle as they drove past it on the 405 Interstate highway near Culver City in California, one of America's busiest stretches of roads. "That Hitler looks like a kettle," commented one user of Reddit, one of several websites where the image was posted over the weekend.

Bentonville, Ark. – Wal-Mart has launched an initiative to hire any honorably discharged US military veteran...

Alan Cohen is President of ecomElectronics.com, which generates $18 million in annual revenue selling general electronics and other items such as house wares and pet supplies on Amazon, eBay, Google,...

A store in Australia made headlines earlier this year for charging consumers $5 to just walk through the door. The decision was made following the growth of "showrooming," a familiar concept when a person heads into a physical store to check out merchandise before finding the same product at a cheaper price online. Thanks to free shipping and returns, as well as low or no taxes — hello, Amazon — it makes sense for consumers to do online price comparisons before making a purchase.

Life is going swimmingly for Karl-Johan Persson, H&M's young, handsome CEO. Despite the global recession, the cheap-chic retail chain is doing well. But the recent factory collapse in Bangladesh has put H&M in the focus, even though it, as Persson points out, didn't use the factory. In an exclusive interview with Metro at H&M's headquarters in Stockholm, Persson proposes a new solution: a tag added to every piece of clothing informing the customer whether it was made in a safe factory.

New York -- J.C. Penney on Tuesday turned to social media to deny that a tea kettle being advertised on a billboard on the 405 Interstate near Culver City,...

When Urban Outfitters CEO Richard Hayne nominated his wife Margaret to its all-male board, it set off a firestorm of controversy. The state treasurer of Connecticut may have put it best, calling it "cynical," an "insult" and "bogus," according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. A company that caters much of its products to women should probably have more women making top-level decisions.