Sears will discontinue sales of Maytag, KitchenAid, and Jenn-Air branded appliances made by Whirlpool as soon as existing inventory is sold. A dispute over pricing ended a 100-year-old partnership.
J.C. Penney's shrinking market valuation is a sign that experts believe that holiday sales may be poor enough that the struggling retailer will have to sharply cut its store count and employee…
Sears saw its shares take a step back early on Monday after it was announced that there would be a big change in its board of directors.
Chris Lange As department stores struggle to overcome low profits and shrinking sales, customer service can't help but suffer. Here are how nine stores did in our recent customer survey.
U.S. retailers have closed nearly three times as many stores so far this year as were closed in all of last year. Will all these closures really help them stay in business?
A large number of investors believe that J.C. Penney will continue to have trouble surviving in an extremely crowded retail market in which it has been eaten alive by competition.
Short interest in Macy's rose by nearly a third in the two week period that ended August 15 and about 12% of retailer's float was short.
Sears said Thursday it plans to close 28 Kmart locations, in another sign the venerable retailer's financial condition is deteriorating.
John Harrington Sears posted a narrower-than-expected loss Thursday morning and announced the closing of more Kmart stores. Investors have reacted coolly to the results.
Paul Ausick U.S. department stores have been struggling, but some are doing better than others at driving traffic to their online websites. Here's a list of the top five.
For the past month Amazon Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has been taking names as it has moved across multiple industries. The Whole Foods acquisition may have been the biggest story out of the…
Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) stock is making an incredible gain on Thursday after the firm announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Amazon Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) to integrate…
Sears stock is getting a boost Monday following the announcement that the company has received a short-term loan of $200 million from funds controlled by the Sears CEO Eddie Lampert.
Paul Ausick Of all the retailer shares that dropped yesterday, deeply troubled Macy's fell the most, a sign of how fragile Wall Street thinks the company is, and raising questions about its possibly terrible…
The owner of Kmart and Sears has become famous for a relentless incidence of store closings. Yet, like some other retailers, it has adopted the tactic of exploring whether niche locations will…
Douglas A. McIntyre 