Category: Discount & Specialty

January 13, 2012

Discount and Specialty Store eUpdates

Personnel Updates: Best Buy announced last week that it promoted Laura Bishop, its Senior Director, Government Relations, to Vice President,...

By Arthur Rosenberg

December 22, 2011

Discount and Specialty Store eUpdates

Personnel Updates: Family Dollar has promoted Beth MacDonald to be the new VP, Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary. Office...

By Arthur Rosenberg

November 22, 2011

Discount Stores and Specialty Retailers Industry Updates

Personnel Updates: Barnes & Noble said its CFO Joseph Lombardi has resigned and the company is starting a search to...

By Arthur Rosenberg

November 15, 2011

Discount Stores and Specialty Retailers Industry eUpdates

Personnel Updates: Barnes & Noble said its CFO Joseph Lombardi has resigned and the company is starting a search to...

By Arthur Rosenberg

November 7, 2011

Amazon Targets Black Friday to Offer Best Buys?

It seems every year the competition for Black Friday retail sales intensifies.  Many retailers which once swore they would not...

By Arthur Rosenberg

October 17, 2011

Discount Stores and Specialty Retailers Industry Updates

Personnel Updates: Books-A-Million has appointed Tyler Novak as General Counsel. Family Dollar Stores announced that it has named Trey Johnson...

By Arthur Rosenberg

October 14, 2011

Company Snapshot: BJs Wholesale Club Inc.

Address: 25 Research Dr WESTBOROUGH, MA 01581 Telephone: 774 512-7400 Internet Homepage: http://www.bjs.com Total Current Stores: 191 Trading Areas: Connecticut,...

By Arthur Rosenberg

September 22, 2011

Does Netflix Miss Blockbuster?

Just this past March I wrote a piece focusing on the unlikely but similarly star-crossed paths of Blockbuster and Best...

By Arthur Rosenberg

September 13, 2011

How Walmart’s Scattered Merchandising Policies Helped Save Kmart

When Walmart news hits the New York Times, as it often does, it’s generally big news.  One of the latest...

By Arthur Rosenberg

August 23, 2011

Discount and Specialty Industry Updates

Personnel Updates: Barnes & Noble announced that Miwa Messer has been named Director of the Discover Great New Writers program....

By Arthur Rosenberg

August 15, 2011

Aggressive Expansions and Contractions Across the Discount/Specialty Database Files

Recently we have seen an unusual array of companies, representing distinct aspects of CSG’s seventeen market segment database of Discount...

By Arthur Rosenberg

July 21, 2011

Discount and Specialty Industry Updates | July 2011

Personnel Updates: Advance Auto Parts announced that Jim Durkin will join Autopart International as President.  Prior to joining Autopart International,...

By Arthur Rosenberg

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