Consumer Affairs & Relations

Report: Walmart moves into Apple’s orchard with tablet

Walmart’s latest reported effort to enter a new market appears aimed at stealing some iPad share from Apple.
Study: Online retail fraud attacks on the rise

Attempts to defraud online retailers have increased for the second year in a row, with food and beverages and online electronics seeing the biggest increases.
Watch out Warby Parker—VSP to open brick-and-mortar stores

The disruption in health care has reached the eyecare sector.
Dick’s Sporting Goods to phase out hunting departments in some stores

Dick’s Sporting Goods is feeling the sales fallout from its decision not to sell some guns, but it’s not backing down.
Lidl sued over disclosure of Aldi’s expansion plans

Two German supermarket chains are engaged in a legal battle over expansion plans in the U.S., according to a report in Chain Store Age’s sister publication Store Brands.
Ross Stores to open 100 stores in 2019

Ross Stores continues its aggressive expansion.
Amazon order cancelations may have been aimed at counterfeits

Amazon has reportedly reinstated some of the thousands of routine merchandise orders it had canceled in the past two weeks.
The first major U.S. city to ban cashless stores is…

Stores in Philadelphia that do not accept cash will be fined when a new law takes effect this summer.

Reuters: Pier I hires restructuring advisors