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February 14, 2019

Breaking: Huge Retail Sales Drop, CSG Polling Proves Out

This morning, the Commerce Department released its retail sales report for December, and the news was not good. The decline...

By Mike Baker

February 14, 2019

Changes at Fred’s

Fred’s made a handful of executive moves that it hopes will help turn things around this month. Joseph Anto shed...

By Mike Baker

February 13, 2019

Amazon Goes Live with New Shopping Channel

Call it the QVC of the Amazon era, call it Twitch for infomercials, call it what you want, but the...

By Mike Baker

February 13, 2019

Lidl Brings In Ex-Aldi Exec to Head US Efforts

Lidl has slowed its roll and scaled back the projected pace of expansion since the heady days of summer 2017...

By Mike Baker

February 12, 2019

Exec Moves as Punch Bowl Social Readies to Expand

On trend eatertainment enterprise, Punch Bowl Social, a company that has garnered significant buzz in the last year, has switched...

By Mike Baker

February 12, 2019

Chipotle’s Back: 2,500 Stores and Growing

SoCal life is agreeing with the Chipotle. Last week was a big one at the company’s new Newport Beach HQ,...

By Mike Baker

February 7, 2019

Mall-Based Retailer Closing Almost 20% of Stores

Charlotte Russe became the latest mall-based apparel retailer to file for Chapter 11 last week. In the process, the company...

By Mike Baker

January 30, 2019

Lowe’s Partners with the NFL

In the lead up to this weekend’s Super Bowl, the National Football League and Lowe’s announced last week that the...

By Mike Baker

January 30, 2019

Loads of Leadership Changes in the Last 10 Days

Executive-suite activity levels have ramped up at a number of major chains recently, as the past 10 days have seen...

By Mike Baker

January 30, 2019

Breaking Down the Buyers: ShopKo Pharmacy Auction

As part of its efforts to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, ShopKo placed the assets of 120 of its pharmacies...

By Mike Baker

January 29, 2019

Two Upstart Coffee Concepts with Big Expansion Plans

Starbucks execs backed off 2016 projections this month that the company would open 1,000 higher end Reserve coffee bars, and...

By Mike Baker

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