Are Wal-Mart shares on sale?
The founding family of the retail giant seem to have a plan that could change the power balance in Bentonville and on Wall Street. By Andy Serwer, managing editor Have you heard that a low-profile...
View ArticleThe Revolutionists of Retailing (Fortune Classics, 1962)
Editor's note: Every week, Fortune.com publishes a favorite story from our magazine archives. This week, we take you back to 1962, when retailing was only beginning to change the way it worked with...
View ArticleRetailers pass on Google Express
Google is expanding its same-day delivery service, which brings customers everything from clothes to food within a few hours of ordering. But three retailers, American Eagle Outfitters, Office Depot,...
View ArticleEBay’s outlook signals slow holiday season
EBay Inc trimmed its full-year revenue forecast on Wednesday, signaling a weaker-than-expected holiday shopping season for the e-commerce company as it prepares to split from its fast-growing payments...
View ArticleMobile Payment App Backed by Target and Walmart Shuts Down
A mobile payment service called CurrentC shut down a small beta test this week and looks headed for the trash heap, despite being backed by Target, Walmart, and many other large retailers. The...
View ArticleBezos Sells Record $757 Million of Amazon Shares
Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos sold one million shares of his holdings in the company raising $757 million last week, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That is a...
View ArticleAmazon Executives Are ‘Pleased’ With Results of Retail Bookstores So Far
Amazon's nascent plan to open physical bookstores is an experiment going well so far, according to Andy Jassy, who heads the company's cloud unit, Amazon Web Services. "It's an experiment for us,...
View ArticleAmazon Charges Non-Prime Customers More In Bookstores
Amazon customers who sign up for the e-commerce giant’s $99-a-year Prime program receive a variety of online benefits ranging from free shipping to free cloud storage. Now Amazon is adding an offline...
View ArticleMobile Payments May Not Take Off For Decades
Since Apple introduced a mobile wallet on the iPhone in 2014, analysts have predicted that shoppers in bricks and mortar stores would soon routinely pay for jeans, groceries, and super-sized TVs with...
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