Walmart Inc. WMT 1.26% threw in the towel on Japan after 18 years, selling most of its stake in a local supermarket chain and continuing its retreat from slow-growing global …
Visitors to Shenzhen’s Burberry flagship store can use Tencent’s WeChat app to interact with the window display and play their own music in fitting rooms. The British fashion brand and China’s largest social media company …
Last fall, walking down Mission Street, in San Francisco, I noticed a new addition to an otherwise unremarkable parking lot at the base of Bernal Heights Hill: a large, white …
The ‘future’ – a word that perhaps doesn’t sit too comfortably in retail at the moment. For so many retail brands, the future looks extremely uncertain, and for many others, …
Retail is evolving — and not just because of the coronavirus. Over the past few years, the sector has been transformed by the growth of e-commerce and shifting customer expectations. …
The last couple months have seemingly changed everything about stores. Social distancing. Employees behind shields. Customers wearing masks. And how about these stories exemplifying how quickly things have changed: Walmart’s …
The parent company of Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic and Athleta said it aimed to be “responsibly aggressive” as it returned to business. Gap Inc., the mall stalwart that owns …
Under the COVID-19 situation, the U.S. online grocery market tripled in both sales and volumes during March through April compared with the same period last year, as reported by Rakuten …
Owner of J.Crew files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the first US retailer to do so during coronavirus crisis J.Crew had sought help from creditors to stay afloat during the …
Story by Derek Thompson The big will get bigger as mom-and-pops perish and shopping goes virtual. In the short term, our cities will become more boring. In the long term, …