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Ulta peppers suburban America with its beauty emporiums, offering a wide array of cosmetics and fragrances, from Urban Decay eye palettes to tiny bottles of Versace perfume. It’s the country’s biggest specialty beauty retailer by sales. Despite its aggressive national expansion in recent years, though, many women still have no idea what Ulta is ... and…

Knuckling down on fundamentals, Target Corp. has hired Anu Gupta, a retail industry veteran, to the new position of senior vice president of operational excellence. Gupta, whose hiring was announced Thursday, will help the Minneapolis-based retailer as it works to improve its operations, such as keeping shelves stocked and simplifying its processes. Company executives have been…

It's almost Halloween, which means it's time for retailers to roll out their offensive Halloween costumes. This year, Wal-Mart's "Little Amigo," noticed by Complex, is kicking things off. It's everything you'd expect. The costume includes a serape shirt, sombrero and mustache that you can put on your probably-not-Hispanic kindergartner. The costume was taken off Wal-Mart's website…

Like something out of a horror tale, an abandoned store in Paramus, N.J. has come back to life as a Halloween retailer. Spirit Halloween, a chain of more than 1,150 pop-up shops across the country, has reincarnated a former Staples store and filled it with 4,000 costumes and accessories, with themes ranging from zombies to superheroes…

In the months after Patrick Campbell lost his job, the one thing that kept him from losing hope was crafting wooden crosses. He made his first for his wife, a simple one, with their nine children helping. It was her birthday and he had nothing else to give. Her tears upon seeing the gift inspired him to…

Every now and then in corporate America, a person gets to mentor her successor and watch him grow into the job. That’s what just happened at J.C. Penney. John Tighe, 46, has been named executive vice president and chief merchant at J.C. Penney, following his mentor, Liz Sweney, into the top merchandising role at the Plano,…

Nearly a year after its opening, Rebecca Minkoff’s flagship store in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood is a hotbed of consumer data. The “connected store,” which is the first of three to open in the U.S., has given the designer brand some key takeaways: the team can find out which items are taken into the…

Amazon.com is always looking for ways to boost its number of Amazon Prime customers, whether that’s by holding a Black Friday-like “Prime Day” sales event or bundling in subscriptions alongside Amazon hardware, as it attempted with the launch of its own Fire Phone devices. The online retailer has a new gimmick — it's dropping the…

When Apple  last week released a new operating system that permits ad-blocking extensions, all sorts of media publishers protested. But a much larger outcry may soon come from retailers and those who use their iPhones to make online purchases. A Fortune investigation shows that an iPhone enabled with Crystal — the top paid iOS app right…

Stein Mart Inc. will be paying an $800,000 penalty related to Securities and Exchange Commission charges that the Jacksonville, Fla.-based retailer improperly valued its inventory. When it would permanently reduce the prices it charged customers on some items, the retailer never reduced the value it reported for those items in inventory, the SEC said in a…