Strategy

Easton’s 16-acre, $500 million New District is now opening up and offering another inspired example of what gathering-dining-shopping-playing spaces can be in post-pandemic America. 

A new study suggests that when a big company increases wages, it causes companies in the same market to follow suit —and with no notable loss in jobs.

The Canadian subsidiary of Walmart is broadening its deployment of a project management platform across the organization.

The Honey Baked Ham Company has named a new chief executive.

Primark has opened its first store in the Midwest, on N. State Street in Chicago.

Walmart has brought on a well-known designer to help pump up its fashion credentials.

The chief executive of Tailored Brands is leaving after serving five years in the position and seeing the retailer through bankruptcy. 

Plentiful financing offered to retail chains stymied by the COVID-19 pandemic allowed many whose businesses had already been declining to hang on to life in 2020. But 2021 could be their downfall.