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  • Specialty retailer mobilizes social efforts

    Bag, Borrow or Steal, a specialty online retailer that allows consumers to buy, rent and sell luxury handbags and accessories, is all about creating a sense of community.

  • CVS Health targets youth in new anti-smoking efforts

    CVS Health on Thursday announced the launch of "Be The First," a five-year $50 million initiative to help deliver the nation's first tobacco-free generation.

  • Strong e-commerce sales not enough to save Stein Mart in Q4

    Fourth quarter profits at Stein Mart were cut in half as the company relied on heavy promotional activity to clear inventory and eke out a 1% same-store sales increase.

  • Exclusive: Deliv CEO dishes on crowdsourced delivery

    Chain Store Age recently spoke with Daphne Carmeli, CEO of Deliv, to get her perspective on what’s going on in the rapidly growing online delivery space.

    What is driving growing consumer interest in online delivery?
    We’ve got a bunch of players in the industry who are aggregating inventory in a simple, flexible and cost-effective way for last-mile fulfillment. Companies like Amazon and Google are resetting customer expectations of what’s possible.

  • Whole Foods Market and Instacart – the start of a beautiful friendship

    The rumors are true – Whole Foods Market and Instacart are taking their relationship to a new level.

    The organic grocer and online delivery service officially announced a deepening of their partnership, which had been reported in the media for the past few weeks.

  • Toys 'R' Us makes progress on turnaround

    The CEO of Toys “R” Us sounded an upbeat note on Thursday amid results that showed the chain cut its full-year net loss by more than half in fiscal 2015, and improved its adjusted earnings by 25%.

  • Toys"R"Us makes progress on turnaround

    The CEO of Toys"R"Us says increases in same store sales and profit show that the company is on the right path toward strategic growth.

    For the fourth quarter ended Jan. 30, the company earned $276 million, up from $265 million a year earlier. Revenue fell 2.6% to $4.9 billion. Same store sales increased 2.3%.

  • Surging Dollar General to open record number of stores in 2016

    Dollar General reported record sales and profits last year and plans to extend the streak in 2016 with 900 stores and an even greater number in subsequent years, according to the company’s new financial targets.

    In 2015, Dollar General opened 730 new stores and remodeled or relocated 881 stores which combined with a 2.8% same store sales increase allowed it to grow total sales 7.7% to $20.4 billion. The company ended its fiscal year on Jan. 29, with 12,483 stores.

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