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Best Buy Price-Match Gaurantee: A Smart, But Very Late Salvo Against Showrooming

Best Buy's decision to make its price-match guarantee permanent seems an intelligent move. A decision, though, that should've been made quite before now.

 

Office Depot, OfficeMax in advanced merger talks

Office Depot & OfficeMax Merge

Office Depot Inc , the No.2 U.S. office supply retailer, is in advanced talks to merge with smaller rival OfficeMax Inc and a deal could come as early as this week, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday.

 

Retailers' sales beat forecasts, but worries remain

Retail

Many top retailers reported strong January sales on Thursday after offering merchandise and deals that drew in shoppers in spite of higher payroll taxes.

 

Sears CEO Must Again Fix Kmart

As Eddie Lampert takes over as Sears Holdings CEO, he again faces the task of fixing Kmart.

 

Wal-Mart testing tiny on-campus format

Wal-Mart is synonymous with the term “big-
box store,” but it’s scaling down to a miniscule
2,500 square feet for a new store coming to
the Georgia Institute of Technology next
quarter. The second in a test format the company is
calling Walmart on Campus, the Georgia Tech
store will be the smallest in the country,
according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The single Walmart on Campus store currently
in operation is at the University of Arkansas in
Fayetteville, Ark., less than an hour’s drive from
the company’s Bentonville headquarters.
There’s a company tie to the new location, too;
Wal-Mart president and CEO Mike Duke is a
Georgia Tech alum.

 

Wal-Mart pledges to hire 100,000-plus veterans

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer and the nation's largest private employer, is making a pledge to hire every veteran who wants a job....

 

Best Buy's U.S. Holiday Sales Come in Flat

Best Buy

Best Buy's holiday sales fell despite a surprisingly resilient showing in the U.S., and the consumer-electronics retailer said its cash flow continues to weaken.

 

Amazon Has Best Holiday Season Ever, Selling 306 Items Per Second

2012 was a good year for Amazon. Not only has the company announced that the Kindle Fire HD was the #1 best-selling, most gifted, and most wished for product on Amazon, but for the eighth consecutive year, the company ranks #1 in customer satisfaction during the holiday shopping season...

 

Amazon most satisfying website to shop: survey

Amazon

Amazon.com Inc remained the best website for shopping online while JC Penney Co Inc suffered the largest drop in customer satisfaction of any major online retailer this holiday season, according to a survey released on Thursday.

 

Retailers pull stocks lower on poor holiday sales

New York Stock Exchange

Stocks are closing lower after a weak holiday shopping report sent shares of major retailers lower. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 24 points to close at 13,114 Wednesday. It was the third straight loss for the Dow.

 

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