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  • L Brands on a roll

    Columbus, Ohio - L Brands Inc. continues its winning ways.

  • Build-A-Bear Workshop cuts loss

    St. Louis -- Build-A-Bear Workshop retains its come-back momentum.

    By limiting growth of costs and expenses and improving sales, Build-A-Bear Workshop reduced its net loss to better-than-expected $628,000 in the second quarter of fiscal 2015 from $4.3 million the same period a year earlier.

  • Sears takes the buyer's remorse out of back-to-school

    Sears Canada has come up with an innovative way to appeal to back-to-school shoppers -- especially those parents who have kids who don't wear uniforms to school.

    The retailer has launched the KidVantage Grow Out Guarantee, "created to take the stress and guesswork out of back-to-school shopping." The KidVantage Grow Out Guarantee promises that if your child grows out of an article of clothing purchased at Sears, you can exchange it for the next size up before the end of the current school year.

  • Build-A-Bear builds a better financial quarter

    Build-A-Bear's recent push to reinvigorate its fading brand seems to be working as the retailer reported a big increase in same store sales in the second quarter. 

  • L Brands keeps seducing shoppers

    The shopping public's appetite for sexy underwear is apparently unsatiable, if the results from L Brands are any indication.

  • City Sports leaps across channels with customer experience

    Boston - Shoppers are coming to retailers across a variety of channels and touch-points, and need to have a consistent and personalized experience wherever they are.

    Boston-based, 26-store specialty sporting goods chain City Sports is preparing to meet the needs of omnichannel shoppers with help from cloud-based digital marketing platform provider BlueConic,

  • Hhgregg off to not so solid start

    The CEO of hhgregg says his company is off to a “solid start” despite first quarter numbers that clearly show otherwise.

    The retailer reported that for the first quarter ended June 30, net sales decreased 6.6% to $441.1 million compared to prior year first quarter. Same store sales decreased 6.3% compared to the prior year first quarter. Revenue for the quarter came in at $441.1 million versus the consensus estimate of $445.99 million. And net loss per diluted share was $0.32 versus net loss per diluted share of $0.36 in the prior year first quarter. 

  • Dropped products affect Conn’s Q2

    The Woodlands, Texas – The decision to stop selling video game products, digital cameras, and certain tablets affected same-store sales at Conn’s Inc. during the second quarter and July fiscal 2016. However, Conn’s still reported total preliminary net retail sales of $325 million during the quarter, up 13% from the prior year period.

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