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Indianapolis -- The Finish Line said its fourth-quarter profit dropped 18% as gross margins fell and overall sales declined more than analysts expected. The chain’s adjusted earnings and same-store sales growth, however, were in-line with its...

Amazon.com and omnichannel are sexy topics that grab a lot of retail press. But at the end of the day, Wal-Mart is the largest retailer on the planet, and the second largest company in terms of revenue. To continue to grow and remain profitable is a remarkable feat given the size of its worldwide operation. And Wal-Mart is never one to rest on its laurels! I've posted previously about Wal-Mart's Lab, ventures in social media and its own initiatives in "long tail" e-commerce.

Tags: Gift Registry, Online Retailing, Specialty Stores Babies"R"Us and Heidi Murkoff's pregnancy and parenting website today announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership to offer expectant moms access to their combined content and...

Grapevine, Texas -- GameStop Corp reported a nearly 50% increase rise in fourth-quarter profit fueled by gains in its mobile and digital businesses. Profit rose to $261.1 million from $174.7 million. Revenue for the quarter ended Feb. 2, 2013, totaled...

Philadelphia -- Destination Maternity Corp. on Thursday opened the first Destination Maternity superstore location in Canada. The 5,000-sq.-ft. store is in Langley, a suburb of Vancouver, B.C. Along with maternity apparel from Destination Maternity’s...

Wanelo, the social shopping site that resembles a well-designed window display, is quickly gaining fans online, despite being largely under the mainstream radar. On Wednesday, the company revealed it had 6 million registered users through its website and application, 70 percent of them visiting the site at least once a month. In November 2012, the site had 1 million members. The service also said that it had a catalog of 5 million products, including items like printed tennis shoes and jeweled in-ear headphones, from 200,000 different online retailers and shops.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (BRAIN) — Google Shopping Express, which launched Thursday, is a local delivery service the company hopes will make it possible for shoppers to get the items they order online a few hours later, and at a low cost.   It’s not quite,...

There was a 79 percent drop in shopping integrations showing retailers’ products within universal or "blended" search results on Google last year, according to new research from search and social analytics provider Searchmetrics. The drop coincides with Google starting to charge retailers to use its Google Shopping service. The previously free service, which gave retailers the opportunity to have their products displayed in shopping integrations for shopping-related Google searches, switched to a pay-for-inclusion model in the U.S. in October 2012.

Amazon has agreed to acquire Goodreads , the popular book review and recommendation platform for an undisclosed sum. The San Francisco-based Goodreads, which launched in 2007, currently has 16 million members who have added a total of 525 million...

Consumers are generally protected from fraudulent use of their credit cards, but on the flip side, online merchants assume some risk when processing payments through credit card merchant accounts. ID Analytics introduced a suite of fraud detection...