ThinkstockE-commerce has come of age, and is no longer the little brother of bricks and mortar retail. What proponents of Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) have known all along, research released today supported–online holiday…
ThinkstockA survey for the National Retail Federation (NRF) estimated that more than 141 million different shoppers hit the stores over the four-day Thanksgiving holiday. That is slightly more than the 139 million…
courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) has to have a spectacular record for the 2013 holiday shopping season. So do the Sears and Kmart divisions of Sears Holdings…
ThinkstockThe worst fears of the retail industry were realized as holiday retail sales fell below expectations. Research firm ShopperTrak reported that Thanksgiving and Black Friday only produced $12.3 billion dollars for the…
courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Thanksgiving online sales may have gone above $1 billion for the first time. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) may have had record-breaking Black Friday sales. But the big…
ThinkstockResults for the shopping extravaganza known as Black Friday have begun to come in and by all accounts, Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday shoppers held up their end of the bargain. Retailers’…
ThinkstockWhat has become the largest day for online sales in any given year is nearly upon us again. Cyber Monday, the first Monday after the long Thanksgiving weekend, is right around the…
ThinkstockRetailers are well into their Black Friday shopping day by now and we thought we’d take a look at how the stocks at ten leading retailers are reacting to early news of…
courtesy Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) said this Black Friday morning, that it processed more than 10 million register transactions between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Thanksgiving day and…
courtesy Making Change at Walmart and UFCWIf discounts are the stuff of Black Friday’s allure, then Walmart (NYSE: WMT) has set enough products which sell for $10 or less to draw nearly…
Douglas A. McIntyre 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 