Now and Next Retail: Experimenting to winRetailers need to get better at anticipating consumer behavior and making provocative bets on what they will be buying tomorrow, write Accenture’s Dave Allan and Jill Standish. Former Starbucks CEO suspends presidential campaign — at least for nowHoward Schultz has put the pause button on his run for the presidency, citing a bad back. Retail sales increase in May; April sales revised higher Shoppers ramped up their spending in May. And April sales were better than previously indicated. Bernie Sanders blasts Amazon — again Sen. Bernie Sanders is no fan of Amazon’s new proposed credit card offering. President of Lord & Taylor leaves Troubled department store chain Lord & Taylor has lost a key executive. It’s raining cats and dogs on Wall Street as Chewy makes public debut Chewy.com has yet to turn a profit, but that’s not scaring off investors. Upscale home furnishings brand names CEO Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams has ended its year-long search for a chief executive. RH Q1 beat Street; raises some prices to mitigate tariffs RH got off to a strong start in its first quarter, with earnings that crushed analysts’ estimates. Walmart in big overhaul of Jet.com Walmart is making some big changes at the online retail startup it bought for $3.3 billion in 2016. 661 companies, including Walmart, Costco and Target, warn Trump about tariffs America’s retailers, manufacturers, tech companies and industry associations joined together to warn that tariffs on China will damage the U.S. economy. First Previous 1135 1136 1137 1138 1139 Next Last
