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Whole Foods Eyes Sears, Kmart Stores For Expansion
Amazon might be looking at taking over as many as 110 old Sears and Kmart stores in order to launch new Whole...
Retail
US Retail Vacancies Hold Steady At 10.2 Percent
In the fourth quarter, the regional and super regional mall vacancy rate fell slightly as overall retail vacancies in the U.S. stayed...
Retail
Retail Chains Find New Ways To Fight
It’s a good time to be a retail chain. Yeah, really. The second quarter earnings season has brought a flow of positive...
Retail
Retail Pulse: Sears To Close 46 Stores; Target Expands Curbside Pickup
Retailers are cutting back on their brick-and-mortar footprints as consumers opt to shop online and away from malls, and Sears has been...
Retail
Retail Pulse: More Closures And In-House Brand Sales For Sears
Things are not looking good for Sears as 63 more stores hit the chopping block — although, if one is looking for...
Security & Fraud
In Latest Hacking News, Best Buy Breached?
Hacking 24/7 when it comes to [24]7.ai? Seems that way. In a week that saw possible data breaches at Delta, Kmart and...
Retail
Sears Struggles Seem Stuck On Repeat
Sears has announced a new financing lifeline and will be scaling back costs as it attempts to return to profitability. The company...
Retail
Sears Announces Closures, JCP Says It’s ‘Going After’ Sears’ Appliances Business
It’s been a doubly rough week for Sears. The struggling chain announced even more brick-and-mortar store closures are coming — this time to...
Retail
Gap Announces 200 Brick-And-Mortar Store Closures
American clothing and accessory retailer Gap Inc. announced news on Wednesday (Sept. 6) that it would close approximately 200 brick-and-mortar Gap and Banana...
Retail
Sears Holdings To Shutter 28 Kmart Stores
Sears Holdings will close 28 more Kmart stores as the firm looks to further cut costs. The upcoming closures will come in...
Retail
Local Retailers, Surviving or Dying in Retail’s Evolution?
At the basic level of retail industry chatter online, much of the focus is on the battle between brick-and-mortar versus eCommerce. While...
Retail
Sears To Close 8 Namesake, 35 Kmart Stores
Sears, the embattled retailer, is gearing up to close eight of its brick-and-mortar department stores and 35 Kmart stores in an effort...
News
Another Kmart Breach Strikes PoS Systems
Kmart has been having a rough time. Over the years, the retailer has seen its ups and downs, and late last year we...
Today In Data
Today in Data: Retail Bankruptcies in 2017
Bankruptcy is never a fun process and the retail industry has been feeling the full brunt of it over the past year....
Retail
Grocery Tracker: Automation, Integration
In this week’s Grocery Tracker, Panasonic shows off its automatic grocery-bagging robot, two new smart fridges come to market and Sprouts sprouts...
Retail
More Kmarts Closing Down
More Kmart stores in at least 13 states will be closed by mid-December, according to a Business Insider report. The closings come...
Retail
Retail’s Hottest Spring Trend? Store Closures
What is arguably among the hottest “trends” in retail right now is far from a positive one for the brick-and-mortar area of...
Retail
Target’s Standing Dead Monster
Target has created a zombie — an unoccupied store looming partially constructed over Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. While its completion has been...
News
Sears And Kmart Closing Locations
The trend of retail chain store closures in the U.S. continues, with Sears and Kmart part of the latest such news. Earlier...
In Depth
Getting Away With Layaway
Who says paying in installments is only for physical items? This new year, a rise in vacation layaway programs -- whose roots...
Apple Pay
Who Says “No Way” To Apple Pay And Why
With a requirement of being able to accept NFC at all stores right away, it’s not surprising that the list of retailers...
News
Cyberthieves Attack K-Mart, Dairy Queen
Both Kmart and Dairy Queen have reported potentially major payment card data breaches, with Kmart reporting on Oct. 9 that it discovered...