McDonald’s cannot be stopped with an elephant gun. The huge food chain announced November same store sales rose 6.2%. Premium coffee and promotional games seemed to be big contributors. US sales were up 5.1%.…
Newsweek has come up with the most intelligent explanantion of Wal-Mart’s problems published recently in the popular press. With 4,000 US stores, almost every US resident is within 25 miles of one. The stores…
Wal-Mart has retained PR operation Edelman in another sign that the retailer is focusing on form over substance. The public relations firm is using employees who have helped in political campaigns to run something…
Stocks: (TGT)(WMT) Research firms are wonderful. They can grab headlines with all sorts of predictions.Consulting firm Retail Forward says that Target will double its revenue between now and 2010. That would put it at…