Walmart's New Ad-vantage Over Best Buy
Walmart turned Best Buy's retreat into an advertising diss. Walmart has taken out full-page newspaper ads telling shoppers not to worry about the anno...
Walmart turned Best Buy's retreat into an advertising diss. Walmart has taken out full-page newspaper ads telling shoppers not to worry about the anno...
Time | CHRISTOPHER MATTHEWS | Posted 05.26.2012
Best Buy released its first-quarter 2012 earnings this week, and though the numbers beat Wall Street expectations, net income took a tumble — fallin...
Peter Mandel | Posted 03.28.2012
Prices may be low, but the Republic's economy is slow and there are hundreds of thousands who can't keep up. "Jobs exist," insist local experts. "But our workforce isn't trained." In fact, many high school graduates here have a hard time reading and doing basic math.
Posted 01.22.2012
From EarthTechling's Susan DeFreitas: Big-box stores may contribute to the evils of urban sprawl, but -- with all that rooftop real estate -- they ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 01.18.2012
Nearly a hundred warehouse workers in California who spoke up about alleged wage violations and unsafe working conditions fear they now may lose their...
John Backus | Posted 03.10.2012
We are in the middle of another battle between brick and mortar and e-commerce. Best Buy is dying. But it is not alone. Welcome to the new world of retailing, the death of retail 2.0. So who will pick up the pieces?
Dave Astor | Posted 02.07.2012
Nineteenth-century French novels have a lot to say about our 21st-century world. And I'm not just talking about Jules Verne books that predicted some of today's technological advances.
Faith Hope Consolo | Posted 01.31.2012
Whenever possible I look to smaller, one-of-a-kind shops for the little treasures that loved ones will cherish forever. And New York City is the capital of the unique boutique!
AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 01.15.2012
NEW YORK — Wal-Mart got an early Christmas gift: Its strategy of offering the lowest prices and shoppers' favorite goods is starting to bear fru...
Posted 01.08.2012
It's not just local non-profit credit unions that are benefiting from anger directed at big banks -- the world's largest retailer is also getting a bo...
Posted 01.06.2012
NEW YORK (Reuters) - It may not be a blood bath, but it will definitely be a dogfight. The television aisles of top U.S. retailers are poised f...
Posted 01.02.2012
WASHINGTON -- D.C.-based hip-hop artist Head-Roc does not want Walmart on Georgia Avenue or anywhere else in the District of Columbia. With Empower D...
Michelle Chen | Posted 10.15.2011
The retail giant Target is under fire from all sides, for union-busting at home and labor violations overseas. The reports that have come out in the past several weeks highlight a continuum of cruelty in the global supply chain.
latimes.com | Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Like many municipalities across the state and nation, Turlock, Calif., is struggling to plug a sizable budget hole. So city officials are looking to c...
Jeff Milchen | Posted 05.25.2011
Just as the U.S. government has subsidized the largest global banks at the expense of smaller competitors and taxpayers, the rise of the mega-retailers owes partial thanks to the invisible hand of Uncle Sam. Those government policies should be reversed.
Yolanda Reid Chassiakos | Posted 11.17.2011
Big box stores are in business to make money, not to subsidize your health care. Be aware of the research and study that have gone into making the attractive product displays.
Peter Gorman | Posted 11.17.2011
I live in tiny, bucolic Joshua, Texas. Horses abound on neighbors' property. The nearest supermarket, one I don't use often, is more than two miles aw...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011
MUNDELEIN, Ill.--Robert Brownson long believed that his proposed development here, with its 200,000-square-foot Wal-Mart Supercenter, was being held h...
Joe Moore | Posted 05.25.2011
I voted for the zoning change to allow for the Walmart because I wanted to honor the hard work of labor and community organizations. I cast my vote with great trepidation, however.
Chicago Reader | Posted 05.25.2011
The fight over a proposed new development in Pullman on the far south side has so far been focused on whether it should include a new Walmart store, a...
The A.V. Club Chicago | Posted 05.25.2011
Andrew: Well David, the city has postponed its big decision on whether Walmart should be allowed to set up a second store in city limits, this time on...
Alexandra Sinderbrand | Posted 05.25.2011
Now Target is just another place that enables designer deities to do what they do best: Rip us off.
AP | JAMES MacPHERSON | Posted 05.25.2011
BISMARCK, N.D. — Hundreds of anxious shoppers watched as city officials used power saws to cut 2-by-4s during Home Depot Inc.'s ribbon-cutting c...
Maria Rodale | Posted 11.17.2011
I'm not against China, or globalism. But right now, America needs all the money we can give it. And we need to reward the very few Americans who are still making things here.
Daily Herald | Larissa Chinwah | Posted 05.25.2011
An empty field surrounded by family homes, soccer fields, baseball diamonds and a shopping mall on West Dundee's northern border is the latest battleg...
The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 05.30.2012