Retail Businesses
Retail Sales
You Need to Stop Making These 5 Customer Service Mistakes
It's time to update your customer service training manual.
Shark Tank
Lori Greiner's 4 Questions to Know Whether Your Idea Is a Hero or a Zero
The serial inventor, Shark Tank star and 'Queen of QVC' shares how to figure out if you're creating a must-have product.
Growth Strategies
Hyper-Growing Fashion Brand Herschel Supply Has Turned Away 500 Investors
This year, its founders expect to sell 6 million units -- up from 8,000 in 2011.
Entrepreneur Network
Paris' Madeleine & Gustave Is the Epitome of a Calm, Cool and Collected Retail Space
Bolanile Maté of Be Better Paris explains how this French home furnishings store combines ambiance and interaction to make customers stay.
Innovation
Birchbox Is Redefining the Future of Retail in More Ways Than One
This innovative subscription service demonstrates a different mode of company-building and leadership with an inventive female CEO at the helm.
100 Brilliant Companies
How One Swimsuit Designer Hopes to Fix Fit
Jude Al-Khalil is making waves in the swimwear market with Bikyni.
Retail Businesses
Are Retail Brands Ready to Compete in the New Normal?
As consumers continue to drift from brick and mortar shops to online markets, retailers are surprisingly optimistic.
Retail Businesses
Gap to Close 75 Old Navy, Banana Republic Stores Outside North America
The struggling apparel retailer is focusing on its North American market to revive its fortunes.
Sears
Sears Eyes Quick Rollout of Small Stores if Test Is Successful
The move comes as Sears tries to bounce back from a five-year stretch during which it lost more than $8 billion as it closed hundreds of stores and sales dropped sharply.
Digital Marketing Strategy
Are Digital Retail Models Taking Over Brick and Mortar?
Start-up consumer brands are gaining noteworthy market share.
Aeropostale
Teen Apparel Chain Aeropostale Files for Bankruptcy Protection
After years of losses, the company said in March it was exploring strategic alternatives, including a sale.
Retail Businesses
Here's a Great Way to Wake up Your Stagnating Retail Brand
Compete directly with consumer-direct manufacturers. Like it or not, it's the brave new economy that will shape our industry.
Retail Businesses
Pure Physical Retail May Be Doomed
Smartphones and mobile apps are brick-and-mortar's wrecking ball, but they can also be what saves it.
Sears
Sears Closes 78 More Stores
The company, which had 1,672 stores as of the end of January, said it would close 10 Sears department stores and 68 Kmart discount stores, with nearly all of the closings occurring in late July.
fashion startup
8 Startups Behind a Trio of Online's Newest Fashion-Industry Trends
Having trouble finding that something special online? Not anymore.
