Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) last month dropped the price of its Shipping Pass program by $1 a year, to $49, and improved the basic level of service from 3-day shipping to 2-day shipping…
Pier 1 Imports, Inc. (NYSE: PIR) is scheduled to report fiscal first-quarter financial results after the markets close on Wednesday. The consensus estimates are calling for a net loss of $0.05 per share on…
In 2015, appliances accounted for 8% of Best Buy Co. Inc.’s (NYSE: BBY) revenue mix. Year-over-year comparable sales grew 15.4%, the best of any merchandise category. Perhaps, then, we shouldn’t be surprised that appliance…
That The Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) is struggling is not exactly headline news. When the clothing retailer reported first-quarter last month, same-store sales were down 5% and total sales were down 6%. Last Thursday’s…
Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) plans to make home delivery via drone put it at the vanguard of retail distribution, once again. It has also become what may be the largest source of drones for consumers.…
Of the 30 blue-chip stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, only Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is showing a gain in Friday trading, up about 0.5% in the noon hour. Other blue-chippers are…
Finish Line Inc. (NASDAQ: FINL) reported fiscal first-quarter financial results before the markets opened on Friday. The company said that it had $0.23 in earnings per share (EPS) on $453.5 million in revenue. There…
Finish Line Inc. (NASDAQ: FINL) is scheduled to release fiscal first-quarter financial results before the markets open on Friday. The consensus estimates from Thomson Reuters are calling for $0.22 in earnings per share (EPS)…
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) reported its fiscal first-quarter financial results after the markets closed on Wednesday. The company said that it had $0.80 in earnings per share (EPS) on $2.7 billion…
Bed Bath & Beyond is scheduled to release its fiscal first-quarter financial results after the markets close on Wednesday.
A group billing itself as a community of 30 million people standing together for good has launched a petition urging Wal-Mart to cease its current practices of selling live fish.
Wal-Mart has had a pretty good 2016 so far. The share price has risen by nearly 15.5% and the company's market cap has grown by about $30 billion.
On Monday The Wall Street Journal reported that Wal-Mart is looking to sell Yihaodian to the second-largest e-commerce company in China, JD.com.
Wal-Mart's count of both store number and size continue to grow slightly in a period during which most large retailers have cut their number of locations. Why?
The Starbucks loyalty program is, by any measure, a huge success, and the company's latest high-tech innovation, a Starbucks for Outlook add-in, could be the next big thing.
