Retail Stores

For the first time, Total Retail has calculated the ranking of the top 75 retailers by growth in year-over-year net earnings. This research is a supplement to our Top 100 Fastest-Growing Retailers list, which we published for the sixth year in a row in our Spring print issue. All of the companies featured on this list are publicly traded. We hope you enjoy this inside look into the brands that led the way in growing profits for the 2015 fiscal year.

Digital technology is being put to use in brick-and-mortar stores to create a more seamless experience for customers and improve a company’s ability to effectively market to them.

Amazon.com plans to open new brick-and-mortar stores, CEO Jeff Bezos said this week, though he didn't say where or when they will open. As The Wall Street Journal reports, Bezos made the comments at the company's annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday, where he also outlined broad plans to expand the Amazon Prime service to include…

Macy's is emerging from a four-year, $400 million renovation of its Manhattan flagship store, adding 100,000 square feet of new retail space, a sixth-floor Italian restaurant and a floor just for millennials. (If only more of them had visited before.) The department store is struggling to figure out how to make its physical stores more…

American Girl is considered a pioneer of experiential retail thanks to its iconic stores that were among the first to combine shopping with eating, playing and all sorts of other -ings. Now, nearly two decades after it opened its first location, American Girl is developing the "store of the future." In fall 2017, American Girl's New…

E-commerce is a money-losing business and hiking up the minimum wage is “bull***.” So said retail’s “merchant prince” Allen Questrom, to a standing-room crowd of former colleagues and current acolytes where he was greeted like a retail rock star. The 50-year retail veteran and turnaround CEO of chains ranging from J.C. Penney and Macy’s (then Federated) to…

U.S. retail sales in April recorded their biggest increase in a year as Americans stepped up purchases of automobiles and a range of other goods, suggesting the economy was regaining momentum after growth almost stalled in the first quarter. The Commerce Department said on Friday retail sales jumped 1.3 percent last month, the largest gain since…

In an industry that saw a 15 percent drop in physical retail sales in 2015, one brand continues to grow profits. For the third year in a row, GameStop profits per store increased. The electronics retailer reported profits of $176,000 per store, on average, or nearly 15 percent for each of its more than 6,600…

Donald Trump may have reason to gloat on Twitter again about the latest troubles facing Macy's, the iconic retailer that dumped Trump's clothing line last year. Macy's reported sales for the first quarter on Wednesday that fell more than 7 percent from a year ago and missed forecasts. The company also lowered its sales and earnings…

Microsoft's stores have a warm decor, plenty of helpful staffers and an array of PCs, phones and devices. They could use a few more customers, though. It's hard to know exactly how the stores are doing since Microsoft won't comment on either sales or traffic figures. It is fair to say, though, that it's not uncommon…