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Amazon.com's treatment of workers at its distribution centers is making headlines yet again, both home and abroad, thanks to a lawsuit in the U.S. and a possible strike by workers in Germany. The Allentown Morning Call newspaper said workers in Amazon's Breinigsville, Pennsylvania distribution center are suing the company for more than $100 million.

Among the highlights of the first Sears Holdings shareholder meeting since Edward Lampert became chairman and CEO were details on the company's progress in combining its brick-and-mortar and online businesses. Sears, which operates the Kmart mass merchandise chain, uses the term "integrated retail" to refer to the integration of its businesses, noting half of its online business comes from customers buying online and picking up in-store or ordering in-store to have it shipped home.

You've seen the public apology video. But, the better story is how J.C. Penney is engaging with customers commenting on the mea culpa. It seems the company has clearly learned a valuable lesson: Listen to your customers. The company is letting commenters know their feedback is being passed on to internal teams such as the buying department. Two days after the video was posted it had attracted about 200,000 views and nearly 900 comments. J.C. Penney was commenting about 30 times an hour, mostly in reply to other comments - both positive and negative.

Deerfield, Ill. -- Walgreens reported April 2013 sales of $5.98 billion, up almost 4% from $5.76 billion in the same month a year earlier. Despite declines in front-end sales, comparable front-end sales and customer traffic, slightly larger basket...

Swedish furniture retailer IKEA has got the green signal to enter India, as the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs sanctioned its plans for a $2 billion investment in the country. This is going to be the biggest FDI in single-brand retail in India....

Adidas AG (OTCMKTS:ADDYY) (FRA:ADS) (ETR:ADS) posted its first quarter profit today that exceeded Wall Street estimates. Gross margin for the apparel company came in at a record high, pushing the stocks to their highest level ever. For the quarter,...

Working Conditions in Bangladesh

Online marketplaces are pushing their sellers to make their items available to international shoppers and are finding a number of ways to make it easier for them to do so. On Thursday, Amazon announced a new feature for its UK sellers to make such...

The National Retail Federation today issued the following statement from NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay on the April employment numbers: "The retail industry rebounded from a dismal March and added 29,000 jobs in April, indicating that retailers remain cautious but are seeing signs of an improving economy, and as a result, added to their payrolls heading into the summer," said Shay. "While the overall impact of the payroll tax increase and sequester remain a significant concern, unease over taxes and spending and the upcoming debate on the debt ceiling in Congress may once again stymie business investment and consumer spending."

A day after the disclosed that it was ending apparel production in Bangladesh, that countrys garment manufacturers expressed alarm that other Western corporations might follow Disneys lead. They feared that could bring about a potential mass exodus that...