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Leveraging the industry’s keen interest in retail innovation, Chain Store Age’s 2018 SPECS conference, held at the Gaylord Texan in Dallas, included a first: the SPECS Tank Innovator of the Year award.

RH (Restoration Hardware) reported better-than-expected quarter earnings for its fourth quarter and said it will return to an expansion strategy in 2019.

Chain Store Age honored five dynamic retail and restaurant brands at its annual Breakout Retailers Awards presentation, held at CSA’s annual SPECS Conference in Dallas.

Innovation is crucial in today’s competitive marketplace — retailers cannot hope to compete, much less succeed, by staying in place. Chain Store Age profiles five forward-thinking brands that are blazing new paths, redefining and reinventing their industry segments in the process.

Upscale Italian marketplace Eataly has opened its largest location to date and first on the West Coast.

Weekly update on wage, paid leave, scheduling and trade bills and other legislative developments.

Grocery and restaurant chains build their reputations on their ability to consistently deliver the fresh, premium quality foods that consumers demand.

Starbucks Corp. on Wednesday said it has reached gender and race pay equality among all U.S. employees in similar roles.