The Kroger Company will stop selling guns to customers under the age of 21, the grocery
store chain said Thursday, joining two other major retailers who have raised age limits after last month's school shooting in Florida.
The department
store chain said it has acquired Story, a New York concept store known for its quirky merchandise and «experiences.»
The department
store chain said late Monday in a statement that...
The department
store chain said its net sales climbed 2.5 percent, while same - store sales rose 1.2 percent for the nine weeks ended Dec. 30, 2017, when compared with the same period a year ago.
The department
store chain said on Tuesday that comparable sales rose 1.3 % in the holiday quarter that ended on Feb. 1, their first quarterly increase by that metric since the end of 2014 and well above analysts» forecasts.
In October the department
store chain said it would no longer sell a broad range of home and bath products designed by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia but would continue to sell a smaller batch of Martha Stewart items, including window treatments, rugs and party supplies.
Not exact matches
Wal - Mart
Stores, the retailer's parent that also operates the Sam's Club
chain,
said it expects profit for fiscal year 2019 to increase about 5 % over the expected adjusted earnings of $ 4.30 to $ 4.40 per share for the current fiscal year.
Claire's
Stores Inc., another
chain that sells some toys, also is
said to be nearing bankruptcy — though it's not at the point of being shut down.
Capping off 2017, the company
say its stock jump 3.9 % when Metro Inc. began selling back the majority of its Couche - Tard shares — about $ 1.55 billion worth — to help fund its purchase of sister drug
store chain Jean Coutu Group Inc..
Guerra
said he thought the
chain could continue to open new locations «for the next 10 years» and «have a
store in every world capital.»
«My intent was to take that department -
store kiosk model and put it online,»
says founder Sam Hogg, who came up with the idea while taking a Sustainable Supply
Chain class at Michigan State University.
Unfortunately, 40 per cent of shoppers
said the Canadian
store experience didn't match the U.S. one and 89 per cent
said the
chain didn't live up to its tagline: «Expect More.
A SoapWorks customer herself, Davidson
says store managers at the 131 -
store chain reported such «huge demand» from customers that she decided to stock an expanded product line.
The company also admitted defeat in its effort to run a
chain of tea shops,
saying it will shutter its Teavana
stores, a move that will eliminate 3,300 jobs.
Department
store chain Sears Holding Corp and Delta Air Lines Inc
said on Wednesday some of their customer payment information may have been exposed in a cybersecurity breach.
«There is just less fear from people who feel like they might lose their jobs... Our shoppers seem more confident than they did a year ago,»
said Reed, 63, whose
chain of four
stores clocked a roughly 10 percent jump in sales from Thanksgiving to this week, compared to the year before.
Last year Dave's sold $ 54 million worth of organic, GMO - free products (the tagline: «Just
say no to bread on drugs») to 2,200
stores in the western U.S. and Guam, including the Safeway and Vons
chains, as well as to institutional clients.
Not only did weather affect
store traffic, it disrupted the supply
chain, slowing production and backing up trucking transportation around the country, the company
said.
Firstly, while the
chain has traded on a reputation for customer service, «the reality is, it doesn't exist in the
stores,» he
says.
The numbers, which put the department
store chain on track to post its first quarter of comparable sales growth in three years, are the start of an awaited payoff to years of investment in Macy's e-commerce firepower,
says Macy's departing executive chairman and former long - time CEO Terry Lundgren.
Fishing and hunting equipment
chain Cabela's
said it agreed to be bought by rival Bass Pro Shops in a deal valued at $ 5.5 billion that will help the privately held company nearly double its
store count in North America.
During a press conference earlier in the day, Bondi
said convenience
store chain 7 - Eleven has been called out for price gouging on water in more than 100 complaints.
The
chain's more than 1,000 dealer franchise
stores, its Mexican subsidiary and its Asian operations are not part of the bankruptcy, it
said.
A Reddit user who
said they had worked at McDonald's for five years broke down the
chain of command at the
store:
The
chain also
says it has beauty advisers at thousands of
stores.
Grocery
store chains will likely improve their loyalty programs to keep their customers coming back, Sakraida
said.
April 17 - Bankrupt department
store chain Bon - Ton
Stores Inc
said on Tuesday it received a winning bid from a joint venture, including Great American Group and Tiger Capital Group, to wind down the its operations.
DAMAC Properties had initially
said it would stand by Trump, even as another of the billionaire's Middle East partners, the Lifestyle
chain of department
stores, halted sales of his «Trump Home» line on Wednesday in protest at his comments.
«It's a very good way for small publishers to be seen by buyers and gain credibility,»
says Gary Kusin, president of Babbage's, a Dallas - based
chain of 247 software
stores.
The Nordstrom family is moving ahead with finding a private equity buyer for the Seattle - based department
store chain, sources
said.
Weston
said customers will soon be able to buy Joe Fresh accessories and cosmetics inside the drugstore
chain, but it has no plans to add clothing
stores, like the ones found in Loblaw locations.
Baker
said HBC will keep the
stores under separate banners, and plans on renovating the Saks
stores and working with more vendors to make the
chain «as luxurious as possible.»
People stick their money under the mattress, they don't put it to work,»
says Leo Piccioli, who used to work at Officenet, a stationery and supplies start - up bought in 2004 by Staples, the US office supply
chain store, and is now that company's Argentina country manager.
The company, which also operates convenience
store chain Speedway,
said total revenue jumped 16 percent to $ 18.98 billion.
Winegard
said customers aren't likely to notice many of the immediate changes at the
stores since those may involve merging logistics and supply
chain infrastructure, or developing joint corporate strategies.
The U.S. confectionery
chain says it now has a
store in Terminal 1 at Toronto's Pearson International Airport and in the coming months will bring its products to the shelves of 81 Hudson's Bay locations and open at least eight outposts at luxury retailer Holt Renfrew.
Kroger, which also owns supermarket
chains such as Ralphs and Harris Teeter in addition to its namesake
stores recently lowered its annual profit forecast, with McMullen
saying.»
«If you are a city or state with a rising concentration» of
chain stores, or branches of existing businesses, «you see a faster decline in your startup rate,»
says Litan.
Companies that have made such agreements, like the world's No. 1 retailer Wal - Mart
Stores Inc and convenience
store chain Kwik Trip,
say they expect to uphold the commitments they have made regardless of any policy changes in Washington.
Wal - Mart
Stores said on Monday it will offer Hudson's Bay Co - owned department
store chain Lord & Taylor dedicated space on its website, as it looks to make deeper inroads into the fast - growing online fashion business.
Rite Aid CEO John Standley has criticized what he
says is a drawn - out regulatory process but has also admitted that the uncertainty around the deal is taking a hit on the pharmacy and drug
store chain's business.
«Consider the case of Nordstrom,... the swanky department
store chain I like so much with a story that's reaching soap opera levels of melodrama,» Cramer
said on Wednesday.
Even though the iPhone maker has
said nothing about what is ahead, its vast supply
chain in China has leaked enough details over the past few months that seasoned observers feel sure about what Apple has in
store.
Bankrupt department
store chain Bon - Ton
Stores Inc
said on Tuesday it received a winning bid from a joint venture, including Great American Group and Tiger Capital Group, to wind down its operations.
Stronger sales from established
stores helped Walgreen trump first - quarter expectations, and the nation's largest drugstore
chain said Tuesday that a major acquisition expected to stoke its global reach and buying clout should close next week.
The Mueller H - E-B, set to open this summer, will be one of the
chain's most eco-friendly
stores, spokeswoman Leslie Sweet
said.
Such managers bring skills «that you don't get in retail,»
says Bill Gillispie, a supermarket veteran who has run
store brand programs at Supervalu's Save - A-Lot
chain.
The coffee - and - donut
chain also announced that a franchisee planned to close 100 self - service
stores over the next 15 months, but
said the
stores only represented a very small portion of overall sales.
One source
said on Thursday that TPG - which in the UK has owned businesses including the department
store chain Debenhams - was now among the frontrunners to clinch a deal with Vice.
The company
said its executives and their advisers have been reviewing the supermarket
chain's
stores for several months, looking at their profitability and their impact on their individual markets.