Retailers are in for a mixed holiday season this year, marked by watchful consumers keeping big spending on a tight leash and vigilantly comparing prices on their mobile phones.
Target reported earnings Wednesday that came in well below Wall Street’s expectations, which the big retail chain blamed on slower than expected demand.
Following complaints of an inappropriate, “accidental” misspelling on their new doll packaging directed young consumers to a pornographic website, toy manufacturer Mattel has apologized for the misprint on its packaging, which was inspired by the 2024 “Wicked” movie.
Amazon is developing smart eyeglasses for its delivery drivers to smooth the final stretch of an order’s journey to a customer’s home.
A 19-year-old Walmart employee was found dead inside the store’s walk-in bakery oven.
Target is slashing prices on over 2,000 items across different categories in a bid to offer more discounts to cash-strapped customers as the holiday season approaches.
One of Amazon’s top executives defended the new, controversial 5-day-per-week in-office policy on Thursday.
U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast ports were reopened on Friday after dockworkers and port operators reached a wage deal to settle the industry’s biggest work stoppage in nearly half a century.
Dockworkers stretching all the way from the East and Gulf coasts went on strike after midnight on Tuesday, which could greatly cause an increase to inflation and cause production shortages for the start of the holiday season.