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Loveland, Colo. -- Bass Pro Shops has signed a letter of intent with Loveland, Colo.-based shopping center developer McWhinney to anchor a new northern Colorado development at Centerra. The approximately 117,000-sq.-ft. Bass Pro Shops is intended to...

New York -- A Thursday report by Wall Street Journal said that Restoration Hardware Holdings Inc. has filed plans for an initial public offering of up to $150 million in common stock. The retailer, which this week unveiled its new RH branding, is...

Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has opened five Neighborhood Market stores in California’s Central Valley, according to The Sacramento Bee. The new small-format grocery stores are located on Marconi Avenue. in Sacramento; Douglas Boulevard....

As merchants sift through their back-to-school receipts, it looks like the season's two best-sellers were social and mobile sales. IBM's Benchmark reports that social sales, or online sales that happen as a result of a referral from a social media site, accounted for 1.6% of July sales, a jump of 25% from the prior year, and 2.2% of all August sales, a 69.7% increase. M-commerce increased by 15.7% in July, and 15.4% in August. Overall, online sales gained 11% in July, then slowed to a 3.9% advance in August.

Camp Hill, Pa. — Rite Aid narrowed its second-quarter loss to $41.4 million in the second quarter from a $94.7 million loss in the year-ago period. Revenue slipped to $6.23 billion from $6.27 billion last year, missing Wall Street’s projected $6.25...

UNION, N.J. — Bed Bath and Beyond's earnings per diluted share for its second quarter rose 5.4% from 98 cents ($224.3 million) from 93 cents ($229.4 million) last year. The company reported net sales of approximately $2.6 billion, an increase of...

Alessandro Benetton is on a mission to find a cure for the ailing global economy and he's asking 100 million or so jobless young people to chip in with ideas. The 48-year-old chairman of Benetton launched the family business's latest "UNHATE" advertising campaign on Tuesday, highlighting the plight of unemployed people under 30 who are striving to find meaningful work every day. Benetton believes the generation appearing in a market-place where the old economic models are not providing them with the kinds of opportunities that kept their fathers in work for decades need to be tapped for ideas.

At Design Within Reach, we make authentic modern design accessible. Rob Forbes founded the company in 1999 when he tried to furnish his apartment with the clean, simple classics he'd come to appreciate while living in London, but found that many of his favorite designers weren't accessible in the United States. Design Within Reach quickly took off and today has 44 retail locations across the U.S. and Canada.

In the past year, several major online-only boutiques have announced plans to open brick-and-mortar stores of one kind or another. Amazon.com has announced a forthcoming boutique in Seattle; menswear e-tailer Bonobos has inked a partnership with Nordstrom; and eyewear brand Warby Parker is currently at work on a flagship in Manhattan. One of the biggest e-tailers to make the jump, Gap's designer emporium Piperlime, is also the first to actually open its doors.

SUFFERN, N.Y. - Ascena Retail's net income tumbled 94 percent in its fiscal fourth quarter, dragged down by costs related to its acquisition of Charming Shoppes Inc. Its adjusted earnings topped Wall Street's view, but its earnings forecast for fiscal...