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Wal-Mart Offering Low-Cost Caskets, Urns On Its Website

AP | EMILY FREDRIX | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business


MILWAUKEE — The world's largest retailer wants to keep its customers even after they die. Wal-Mart has started selling caskets on its Web site ...

Big Box Store, Boutique Price: Target's Designer Collaborations

Alexandra Sinderbrand | Posted 09.19.2009 | Style


Alexandra Sinderbrand

Now Target is just another place that enables designer deities to do what they do best: Rip us off.

Black Friday: Shoppers Flock To Discount Outlets

New York Times | MICHAEL BARBARO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


American consumers flooded stores yesterday on the traditional first day of the holiday shopping season, but the irrational exuberance of the Black Fr...

Weak IT Systems Weaken Wal-Mart's Worth

Wall Street Journal | Ben Worthen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Lack of high-end brands and poor customer service aren't the only reasons that the Wal-Mart era is coming to a close. The retailer's once legendary in...

Payless: The New High Fashion Hotspot

The Los Angeles Times | Melissa Magsaysay | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


Karl Lagerfeld at H&M? Check. Proenza Schouler at Target? Check. Lela Rose at Payless Shoesource? Now, there's a head scratcher. Designers collaborat...