Whole Foods In-Depth
Aug 10, 2012
Upscale grocery chain Whole Foods has some ambitious plans for new store openings in the next few years, especially considering how the supermarket segment overall is faring. ...
Update on Best Buy Plan
Aug 08, 2012
The Wall Street Journal revealed some of the details of Richard Schulze's plan to bring Best Buy back to relevance today. Apparently, Schulze's approach would involve lower prices in order to compete with Amazon.com and a great in-store experience...
LBOs Are Back. For Better or for Worse?
Aug 07, 2012
Remember all those leveraged retail buyouts that took place in the mid-2000s? According to Fortune, they might be coming back, including in the just proposed Best Buy buyout. ...
Wal-Mart Not Quite Happy with Express Format
Aug 07, 2012
It might be just a case of growing pains. But once more there are indications that Wal-Mart's new Express format isn't working out quite as planned. ...
Best Buy Founder Makes an Offer
Aug 06, 2012
In a move that's been expected for some time, Best Buy's founder Richard Schulze made an $8.8 billion buyout offer to the chain...
Quebec Says No to Lowe's
Aug 02, 2012
When we talk about retailers' international expansion, the idea of partnering with or acquiring local companies to gain instant...
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