Retail Stores

Spice and flavoring company McCormick and Co. will open its first-ever retail location, McCormick World of Flavors, at Harborplace in Baltimore. The store will display McCormick's full lineup of products along with interactive and educational displays.

Chris Bolte, vice president of Wal-Mart Labs, let us know exactly why brick-and-mortar stores aren't yet a thing of the past at the Business Insider's Social Commerce Summit.

Consumer Reports recently conducted a survey of more than 26,000 of its readers about which are the top retail stores. Some stores were big-name disappointments while one store stood out above the rest.

A mall in Cleveland, like many malls across the country, is suffering. Closed on weekends because there are so few visitors, it's down to eight retail stores, eight food-court vendors and a couple of businesses. So part of the glass-covered mall is being converted into a vegetable garden.

Some people insist that Best Buy is dying a slow death. Meanwhile, its CEO, Brian Dunn, maintains that 80 percent of consumer electronics sales still come from brick-and-mortar stores.

Blogger Ginger Harris hauled herself out of bed at 6:45 on Feb. 5 and headed to Target for the new Jason Wu collection. But after waiting in line for the store to open, all that remained were larger-size dresses and tops. So, where did everything go?

The department store sector is remaking itself for the new era of retailing, continuing the resurgence it experienced over the past two years with the return of the mall.

Poor Chris Petrovich, an Eagles fan and Modell's manager from Philadelphia, called to a Woodbridge, N.J. store Monday to help manage the onslaught of Giants fans clamoring for championship gear. The company brought 300 out-of-state workers to New Jersey and New York stores as the confetti blasted skyward in Indianapolis.

A good idea is a good idea. Banana Republic is going to revive its "Mad Men" capsule collection for sale on March 1, just in time for the show's long anticipated comeback on March 25 on AMC. Call it an "encore installment" of both.

Multichannel retailer HSN and food lifestyle brand Bon Appetit partnered on Jan. 31 for the highly successful launch of the Bon Appetit Collection. One of the most successful culinary launches in the retailer's history, the debut of the new line of cookware, small appliances and kitchen tools resulted in more than 20,000 units being sold in one day.