Labor & Employment

Lowe’s Companies appointed a veteran marketer who worked with a fast-food giant and several beauty powerhouses to a new role in its senior leadership team. 

Fairway, the New York City grocer whose single store on the Upper West Side of Manhattan became a supermarket legend, may finally be being weighed down by its ambitious expansion program.

Macy’s is closing a store in its hometown.

Store associates are key to providing one of the few components that online retailers cannot match: the human touch.

The battle to take Hudson’s Bay, whose banners include Saks Fifth Avenue, is apparently over.

Pier 1 Imports is significantly reducing the size of its store portfolio and corporate headcount as it seeks to cut costs and turnaround its ailing operations.

The year 2019 saw the highest number of job cuts in the U.S. in four years even as the nation maintained a low unemployment rate. 

As the new year settles in, so do new leaders at many of the nation’s leading chains. 

The answer to the headline — probably not.

An e-tail giant continues developing fulfillment centers across the country.