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Cos Bar is a family-owned chain of 12 beauty boutiques that carry luxury brands in many of the United States' most exclusive destinations. Now it's collaborating with Target to bring its new collection of bath and body lotions, tools, and bags into the retailer's stores beginning May 6.

Bebe surprised more than a few people back in December when the brand announced that it would be doing a bridal line. There was a certain amount of speculation on just what Bebe bridal would look like.

eBay will sell Rent.com to Primedia, a resource for apartment and rental home information and listings. Rent.com launched nationally in October 2001, and eBay acquired the classified site in 2005 for approximately $415 million ($385 million in stock and $30 million in cash). eBay released a statement saying it was divesting itself of Rent.com "because it had limited synergies with our core businesses as we focus on enabling commerce for buyers and sellers globally through platforms, payments and technology."

The Container Store has installed Jennifer VoicePlus for voice picking in its Dallas distribution center. At the Modex trade show in Atlanta last month, Christy Parra, logistics systems director at The Container Store, described the company's employee-first approach to the selection, implementation and start up of the Jennifer VoicePlus System.

Online retail is big business. So big that online sales are expected to grow 10 percent each year until they reach nearly $280 billion in 2015. However, a great deal happens from the moment you confirm your order to the moment your package arrives on your doorstep. 

If you ever found yourself running around different malls looking for a boyfriend-fit blazer for professional occasions, your search may be over. Today, Quincy Apparel launched a new website that features tailored clothing for tall and curvy women, where size is measured by hip to waist ratios, height and bust–three parts of woman’s body said to cause the most frustration when trying to find the perfect fit. Focusing on shape rather than size, Quincy founders Alex Nelson and Christina Wallace dedicated their line of work to “bringing the chic back to the work world.” Although tall and curvy women

A new take on the conventional department store concept has been undergoing testing at Stockholm Central Station, with the aim of discovering how the new generation of mobile-connected "poster stores" will impact the future of retailing.

The mystery is how lululemon athletica has managed to turn yoga gear into a small empire, notching a market value of $10.4 billion with sales of just $712 million last year, and whether it can sustain the pace. After all, in the prior quarter it booked a record $1,800 in sales per square foot — more than three times luxury kingpin Neiman Marcus’ sales for its most recent full year.

Clothing from H&M, Adidas, Ralph Lauren and Nike, among others, discharges a significant amount of hazardous chemicals into water systems when washed, according to a Greenpeace report. Among the samples that Greenpeace tested, those companies' clothes emitted the highest percentage of nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs) on the first wash, according to Dirty Laundry: Reloaded: How big brands are making consumers unwitting accomplices in the toxic water cycle.

A tipster sent Jezebel a photo of the Ralph Lauren boutique on private-sale site Ruelala.com, where the model seems to have a strangely small right arm. It's subtle, and the use of a normal-sized hand is artful.