Wal-Mart Reveals 2004 Expansion Plans
Oct 1, 2003
Developers, start your engines. The leading market-share-gaining retailer is gearing up for even more growth in 2004. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will add 50...
Dinner And A Movie
Sep 1, 2003
Quick-service pizza chain Sbarro will open 19 restaurants in National Amusements Inc.'s upscale cinemas by the end of the year. Sales exceeded expectations...
The European Invasion
Sep 1, 2003, Howard Riell
A fashion war is brewing, with European firms increasingly battling it out in the United States for trendy young Americans' business. The latest entry...
Watch Out For No. 3
Sep 1, 2003
Anna's Linens is known for the discount prices at its grand openings. So even before it unlocked the doors of its 100th store, bargain-hunters began lining...
RETAIL FACE OFF: Drug Wars
Aug 1, 2003
Insurance providers are cutting prescription drug benefits, triggering a slowdown in retail pharmacy sales. So chains have to boost front-end sales of...
Milk, Bread, EggsShoes?
Aug 1, 2003
Payless is opening its first store-within-a-store, called Payless ShoeSource Express, inside an HEB supermarket in Laredo, Texas. The 700-square-foot...
Quick Change
Aug 1, 2003
Toasted-sub franchiser Quiznos is spending its own dough this year to pull a fast one on its customers. The Denver-based quick-service chain is rolling...
RETAIL FACE OFF: SANDBOX SCUFFLE
May 1, 2003
More than ever, penny-pinching parents are picking up kids clothes at discount stores and mass merchants. That leaves pricier children's specialty apparel...
Bauer Bows Out Of the Heat
Apr 30, 2003, —staff & wire reports
Yesterday, the Spiegel Group announced plans to close 13 percent of its Eddie Bauer stores as part of the company’s Chapter 11 restructuring efforts....
PacSun to Open 75 New Stores
Mar 5, 2003, —staff & wire reports
Newport Beach, Calif.-based specialty apparel chain Pacific Sunwear announced plans to increase its store base by 75 units in 2003, including at least...
