J.C. Penney is sorry and it wants your business back. That's the gist of its latest ad, a public "mea culpa" which the mid-priced department-store put on its YouTube and Facebook pages.
According to a preliminary tally of 15 retailers by the International Council of Shopping Centers, revenue in stores open at least a year rose 1.4 percent, or 2.2 percent excluding drugstores. ...
The retailers said Wednesday they have agreed to combine in an all-stock deal worth about $1.2 billion that would transform the office-supply retail sector by helping the No. 2 and No. 3 chains ...
While the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens battled on the field, marketers from Best Buy to M&M to Toyota competed on advertising's biggest stage. And they're doing so by pulling ...
It used to be enough for stores to promise discounts of up to 70 percent off to lure shoppers during the busy holiday shopping season. But the ease of ordering online and the sluggish economy has ...
Consumer products giant Procter & Gamble Co. said Thursday it plans to cut more jobs and increase share repurchases as it works on its turnaround plan.
NEW YORK -- Struggling consumer electronics chain Best Buy said Monday that a former Williams-Sonoma executive will become its new chief financial officer beginning Dec. 10.
Nike forgave Tiger Woods and Michael Vick. But the company dropped Lance Armstrong faster than the famed cycler could do a lap around the block. What's the difference? A marketer's prerogative.
Toys R Us has come out with its annual "hot toy" list that includes tablets for kids, fashion dolls in the likeness of boy-band sensation One Direction, and even retro hits Teenage Mutant Ninja ...
NEW YORK - So you love your iPad but you wish you could work on Microsoft Office software, watch Flash video and have more of a PC-like experience? OnLive Desktop is one way you can.
NEW YORK - Americans grew much gloomier about the economy in May, causing a critical measure of consumer confidence to suffer its biggest decline in eight months.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — I’m one of the millions of smartphone owners addicted to Instagram. While it’s wildly popular, Instagram isn’t the only camera app worth having.
Struggling cosmetics seller Avon Products Inc. on Monday rejected a $10 billion buyout offer from Coty Inc., a smaller beauty products maker looking to capitalize on Avon's business woes.
During the past five years, while sheriff's deputies were summoned to 27 downtown clubs 227 times, officers responded to 312 other incidents - including three homicides - at 26 clubs in south Augusta.
