Category: Discount & Specialty

December 9, 2013

Redbox: The Final Nail for Blockbuster, Even After Blockbuster Declined to Buy Netflix… Several Times

Recently a story was authenticated indicating that several times during the early 2000’s, the then CEO of Blockbuster turned down...

By Arthur Rosenberg

November 26, 2013

Company Snapshot: Netflix

Address: 100 Winchester Circle Los Gatos, California 95032 Phone: (408) 540-3700 Year Founded: 1997 Total Annual Sales: $3,609,282,000 Senior Executives:...

By Arthur Rosenberg

November 18, 2013

Industry Updates: Discount and Specialty Stores – November 2013

Personnel Updates: Big Lots has appointed former Kmart executive Andrew Stein as the company’s Senior VP and Chief Customer Officer,...

By Arthur Rosenberg

November 11, 2013

After The Bubble Burst

The decade of the Nineties left us with a rough economic impression which reflected consequences brought on by the newest...

By Arthur Rosenberg

October 21, 2013

Company Snapshot: HSN

Address: 2501 118th Ave N ST. PETERSBURG, FL 33716-1920 Phone: 727 872-1000 Year Founded: 1982 Total Stores: 4- HSN Outlets...

By Arthur Rosenberg

October 14, 2013

Industry Updates: Discount and Specialty Stores – October 2013

Personnel Updates: Dollar General Corporation announced that Susan Lanigan, Exec VP and General Counsel, has retired from the company.  Ms....

By Arthur Rosenberg

October 9, 2013

Target Follows Best Buy to Embrace Showrooming

Over the past couple of years the term showrooming has become pretty much ubiquitous as the phenomenon developed and naturally...

By Arthur Rosenberg

October 2, 2013

Industry Updates: Discount and Specialty Stores – September 2013

Personnel Updates: Advance Auto Parts Inc., announced that VP Real Estate, Randall A. Young has left the company to join The...

By Arthur Rosenberg

September 16, 2013

Company Snapshot: Costco Wholesale Corp.

In 1976 Costco came into being under the Price Club name. Its initial location was in a converted airplane hangar...

By Arthur Rosenberg

August 29, 2013

Company Snapshot: Best Buy Co. Inc.

In 1968 the concept for Best Buy emerged from the confines of an audio specialty shop, called Sound of Music,...

By Arthur Rosenberg

August 27, 2013

Is Tuesday Morning Mourning Internet Sales?

Tuesday Morning sells home furnishings mostly through the purchase of closeouts and odd-lots. Retailers featuring this type of merchandising often...

By Arthur Rosenberg

August 19, 2013

Industry Updates: Discount and Specialty Stores – August 2013

Personnel Updates: 99 Cents Only Stores has hired Stephane Gonthier, COO of Canadian dollar store chain Dollarama Inc., to become...

By Arthur Rosenberg

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