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Menomonee Falls, Wis. -- Kohl’s Department Stores on Tuesday announced activation of the company’s largest solar project at its 1 million-sq.-ft. e-commerce fulfillment center in Edgewood, Md. The center opened in 2011 and recently earned LEED...

Seattle-based Nordstrom Inc. plans to open Nordstrom Rack stores in Columbia, Md., and Washington, D.C. The new 40,750-sq.-ft. Columbia store will be located at Columbia Crossing shopping center. Slated to open in spring 2013, it will mark the company’s...

There's been a powerful shift in consumer behavior over the past few years, and there's no single thing that's changing how people shop and spend. Instead, it's a combination of things, all conspiring to move customer dollars from the big-box stores and neighborhood retail to the web. Here's my sense of why the changes are now hardwired, and likely to increase rapidly over the next few selling seasons.

New York -- Dick's Sporting Goods said it has removed all guns from its store nearest to Newtown, Conn., and is suspending the sale of certain kinds of semi-automatic rifles from its chains nationwide. In a statement, the retailer said the move was made...

FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service provide many easy-to-use online tools and resources to help small businesses meet their shipping needs. In addition to shipping management tools, the carriers also provide educational resources and helpful advice from small business specialists. Here's a list of shipping resources from USPS, UPS, DHL and FedEx. There are small business and e-commerce solutions, shipping software tools and many more resources to help.

BEAVERTON, Ore. — Nike has named Roger Wyett as its new VP of Action Sports. Wyett will oversee Nike brand’s skateboarding and snow businesses, as well as Hurley International LLC. Sandy Bodecker, the current VP of Action Sports at Nike, will now work...

Lane Bryant, the women’s plus-size apparel retailer, has launched "Just for You" to enhance its online shopping experience, as well as an optimization of its mobile browsing capabilities...

Monday was Free Shipping Day. So is Tuesday. And the day after that will be Free Shipping Day, too. OK, not exactly. Free Shipping Day is officially Dec. 17, and for good reason: that's the last day many online retailers can guarantee Christmas Eve...

There's one week left to wrap up your holiday shopping. From Abercrombie & Fitch to Costco, Roxanne Meyer, UBS retail analyst, and Joe Feldman, Telsey Advisory Group, discuss which retailer is set to see top sales this holiday season.

Retailers continue to ride the technology wave with the recent news of Home Depot's acquisition of BlackLocus. The Austin-based startup builds data-driven pricing solutions for retailers. The deal was announced yesterday, according to techcrunch.com,...