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Like eBay, Etsy has a list of items that its third-party merchants are prohibited from selling. The company spent the past several months conducting extensive research to maintain Etsy as a safe marketplace for both shoppers and sellers, and it looked into such issues as those surrounding the sale of human bones and the corrosive and toxic properties of mercury. While items on its prohibited list may be subject to legal regulations, some aren't, and, "when it comes right down to it, some things just aren't in the spirit of Etsy," the company wrote.

American Apparel Inc. posted a second-quarter net loss of $15.3 million, or 14 cents a diluted share, for the three months ended June 30, compared with a net loss of $213,000 in the year-ago quarter....

Pittsburgh -- Dick's Sporting Goods reported Tuesday that net income for the quarter ended July 28 slid to $53.7 million, from $73.8 million in the same quarter a year ago. The sporting goods retailer blamed the lackluster profit performance partly on...

Home Depot Tuesday reported sales of $20.6 billion for the second quarter of 2012, a 1.7% increase from the second quarter of fiscal 2011. Comparable sales for U.S. stores were positive 2.6%, and overall same-store sales for the second quarter were...

New York -- Saks Inc. reported Tuesday a loss of $12.3 million for the second quarter, widened from a loss of $8.4 million in the year-ago period. Revenue climbed 5.1% to $704.1 million, widely missing the $762.6 million projected by Wall Street....

Best Buy sells consumer electronics and so does Target. That would make the two companies competitors, right? Maybe yes and maybe no, depending on whom you ask and when. It was just over two years ago that Target, among others, was upping its game with the intention of grabbing share of the consumer electronics market. So how is it that we now come across a report by The Denver Post that Target is bringing Geek Squad "agents" into its 28 stores in the Denver market?

LAS VEGAS — Respect Your Universe, a performance apparel company, has named retail industry executive David Campisi to chairman and CEO of RYU. Joining the RYU board of directors in March of 2012, Campisi was the former chairman, president and CEO of The...

Apple has been laying off some of its newly-hired retail employees, reports MacRumors . One report says that all employees at a United Kingdom store with less than six months of experience were laid off. Additionally, we can confirm that a...

Houston -- Stage Stores and Alliance Data Systems Corp. announced Monday they have forged private-label credit card renewal agreement. Alliance Data's Retail Services business will continue to provide a full suite of private-label credit card services...

City of Commerce, Calif. -- 99 Cents Only Stores said Monday it will convert 40 semi-trucks from diesel to clean-burning compressed natural gas (CNG). This new fleet, according to the discounter, is the largest private Class-8 CNG trucking fleet in...