Wikimedia CommonsOnce a month, research firm Comscore releases a list of the 50 largest websites in the United States by traffic. Month after month, even year after year, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) tops the…
courtesy Best Buy Co. Inc.A new Gallup poll revealed two unexpected characteristics of Black Friday. One is that the portion of the population that shops on Black Friday is fairly small. The other is…
ThinkstockDaily deals website GreenDeals.org and its founder, Jonah Myrto, have launched an effort to designate an “annual shopping occasion” the company has dubbed “Green Tuesday.” This year the occasion falls on Tuesday, November 27th,…
ThinkstockThrough the first 18 days of the 2012 holiday shopping season, online sales have risen 16%, from $8.77 billion last year to $10.14 billion this year according to the latest data from comScore Inc.…
ThinkstockAs research firms, retail associations and large retailers set expectations for the results of the holiday shopping season, those expectations rarely match one another. Perhaps wildly different views of fiscal cliff effects cause the…
courtesy Best Buy Co. Inc.Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) reported third-quarter 2013 adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.03 and $10.75 billion in revenues before markets opened this morning. In the same period…
courtesy Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc.Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) has had its share of troubles in the past year or so. Today, though, the company has announced that it has found…
courtesy of Hostess Brands Inc.Some Americans hoarded all the Hostess Twinkies they could find after the company announced plans for a liquidation that would destroy 18,000 jobs. Now, the liquidation has been put on…
courtesy of Groupon Inc.An SEC filing shows that Tiger Global has taken a 65 million share position (9.9%) in Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN). That certainly will press its shares higher, at least temporarily. Tiger is…
courtesy of Sony Corp.Some stocks become so badly beaten down that they become improbable bets for rebounds. Right now, in retail, several are so battered that modestly improved results in Black Friday weekend sales…
courtesy of Wal-Mart StoresWal-mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) announced this morning that its board of directors has approved a change to the payment date for the company’s fourth-quarter dividend. The new date is December…
ThinkstockIt’s make or break time for U.S. retailers as the Thanksgiving holiday rolls in this week and the shopping phenomena known as Black Friday and Cyber Monday follow along. Expectations for this holiday shopping…
Is there something to worry about in this acquisition of Teavana Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TEA) by Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX)? The deal is expected to close since the votes for it are effectively in…
ThinkstockRadioShack Inc. (NYSE: RSH) is going after the Holiday gimmick just like it is any other company. The problem is that, on the surface, RadioShack cannot afford its promotion this year. The company has announced…
ThinkstockTyson Foods Inc. (NYSE: TSN) reported fiscal fourth-quarter 2012 adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.55 and $8.37 billion in revenues before markets opened this morning. In the same period a year ago,…