Consumer spending increased by 3.7% in June, the highest 12-month smoothed monthly increase in almost two years, according to data released last week by the ...

Last week the US Department of Commerce released its most recent monthly sales and inventory figures for the retail industry. Total sales rose to almost ...

There’s a new way to grow profits and hit it out of the park with consumers, employees and shareholders. It’s “Moneyball for Retail” – finding ...

On a recent afternoon I was stopped in the mall by a foreign tourist looking for American gifts to take back home. All the clothing ...

While Stephen Elop was describing the culture of a Finnish telecom company he could easily have been referring to many western retail organizations today, specifically ...

The closer you get to the Equator, the more dawn and dusk become switches rather than transitions. It’s dark, it’s light. I’ve learned as a ...

There’s a growing disparity in the way some economic data have moved since the recession. On the one hand we have employment and income figures, ...

Consumers love celebrities and are more than willing to fork over billions of dollars for things they endorse. But do you want them to land ...