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San Francisco-based Williams-Sonoma Inc., a specialty home furnishings and gourmet cookware...

Retail Success Still Depends on Core Principles The 2013 Achieving Excellence in Retail Operations study The retail market is changing, but the 2013 AERO study shows that the priorities remain the same. "Increasingly, where one shops will be...

Stitch Tone Garments Ltd garment factory has resumed operations in its six-story factory building in Chittagong, Bangladesh, against requests by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) that all production stop. Wal-Mart said on Monday that its inspectors had...

American Eagle Outfitters is opening an office in San Francisco and reshuffling operations in New York City. That's part of the news in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article about American Eagle's moves toward melding the retailer's online and brick and...

Wal-Mart yesterday warned consumers of a bogus phishing email purporting to come from the retailer. The fraudulent email looks like a confirmation of a purchase made on Walmart.com, but is actually an attempt to gather personal information from the recipients, the retailer said in a statement. "This email is not from Walmart.com, and it is important that recipients do not click on any links in the email or respond in any way," the company said. "We are investigating the source of the email and working with appropriate authorities."

After days of silence during which long-held resentment toward Abercrombie & Fitch began to boil over, Chief Executive Michael S. Jeffries tried to stem a backlash against the teen-focused retailer. Jeffries, in a statement Thursday, discussed criticism that the company lacks women's XL and XXL sizes in favor of catering toward young, good-looking customers.

New York -- Bloomingdale’s plans to open a 167,000-sq.-ft., three-level store at the Ala Moana Center in Honolulu in fall 2015. It will be the retailer’s first location in the state of Hawaii. The new store will be part of a redevelopment of a portion...

Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has completed eight new solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays in Massachusetts. With almost 10,000 panels, the solar PV arrays throughout the state will provide 2.8 million kilowatt-hours annually, saving...

Houston -- Stage Stores reported a loss of $6.9 million for the first quarter, compared with a loss of $418,000 for the year-ago period, as the retailer dealt with cool weather that put a damper on sales of spring apparel. "The unseasonably cool...