Wikimedia CommonsWhile J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT) have run ads in newspapers and online around the country to get shoppers through their doors in a desperate attempt to take market…
courtesy of Apple Inc.The deals are good enough and promotions aggressive enough that the millions of Americans who are supposed to shop on Thanksgiving and Black Friday will. However, retailers face the same…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockIn the Thanksgiving holiday edition of its Weekend Warrior newsletter, Sterne Agee offers a couple of stock picks, one outstanding holiday pricing ad, and a weather forecast. That should about cover the…
By Steve Jurvetson CC-BY-2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsGerman workers are not happy with Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) — again. In May 500 warehouse workers affiliated with the Ver.di union walked off the job…
courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Perhaps the only thing that could have made the timing weirder than Monday’s announcement that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) will get a new CEO in February is…
Paul Ausick ThinkstockIf anyone wants to understand the advantage Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has over rivals who sell merchandise online, he only has to look at traffic data. Amazon has more than twice the number of…
courtesy Making Change at Walmart and UFCWIn the second year of labor protests against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT), organizers are saying they expect protests and strikes at more 1,500 U.S. Walmart…
Courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.; photo by Chris RupertInvestors cannot seem to get enough J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) stock Wednesday morning. The company reported what can only be called awful…
courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) decided to hammer its competition by matching some Black Friday prices one week before Black Friday. The move could drive down Walmart’s margins on…
courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JPC) and the Kmart and Sears divisions of Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) are supposes to be the losers among large U.S. retailers.…
courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.This summer, thousands of fast-food workers in the United States went on strike in cities across the country, demanding their wages be increased to $15 an hour and…
White House Photo by Pete SouzaBerkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have released the conglomerate’s full stock holdings as of September 30, 2013. This 13F filing with the SEC shows…
ThinkstockLast year consumers spent an average of $786 on holiday gifts, but if the latest poll from Gallup is correct they’ll be sitting on the wallets this year. Americans say they plan…
courtesy Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) reported third-quarter fiscal 2014 results before markets opened Thursday morning. The retailing giant posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.14 on revenues of…
courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has started to run a series of ads in media such as The New York Times. The theme of the marketing messages is…
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