Wal-Mart is the top choice for consumer purchases of personal care products like shampoo and toothpaste. The retail giant gets nearly 20% of the $40 billion market for personal care items.
DryShips, Target, J.C. Penney, and Aevi Genomic Medicine all posted new 52-week lows Monday.
Paul Ausick Exxon, Target, Rite Aid, and Frontier Communications all posted new 52-week lows Thursday.
Target, Valeant, DryShips, and SeaDrill posted new 52-week lows on Friday.
Target posted perhaps the single largest loss over the past year, and things don’t seem to be getting better. Analysts seem to agree.
Chris Lange Best Buy's rough quarter and rougher outlook underscore the impact of Amazon on traditional retailers. Will any big retailer be able to take on Amazon and remain standing?
Target, Signet Jewelers, Frontier Communications, and QVC all set new 52-week lows on Tuesday.
CEO Brian Cornell has been turning around Target since mid-2014. The turnaround is in tatters, particularly based on Target's most recent earnings report.
Target came up a little short on both earnings and revenues in the fourth quarter, but the outlook is hammering the shares Tuesday morning.
Paul Ausick The first round of retail earnings has come and gone. Now we are seeing more major retailers getting ready to report.
Friday's analyst calls were dominated by the retail sector. Perhaps this is due to the proposed border adjustment tax looking dead on arrival.
Since 2014 point-of-sale cyberattacks have declined by 93%. The bad news is a concomitant 333% increase in the number of new point-of-sale malware countermeasures developed and deployed.
Federal court orders review of $10 million Target settlement related to 2013 data breach.
Paul Ausick Almost all large retailers make very little money in the current environment. Amazon makes almost nothing on retail sales.
Pessimism about brick-and-mortar retail likely caused an 8 million share short interest surge in J.C. Penney for the two-week period that ended on January 13.
Douglas A. McIntyre 