There were two more big announcements on the retailer bankruptcy and closure front in recent days. Ritz Camera will auction its 400 remaining stores and liquidation is a distinct possibility. ...

(Due to some blog maintenance, I couldn't get a roundup post up last Thursday. So here we'll play a bit of catch-up on important retail and retail real estate news from Thursday through Sunday.) ...

In a committee hearing in Congress that just ended, Joint Economic Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney said that commercial real estate is a "ticking time bomb." That comment alone has generated a Dow Jones story, an Associated Press story, a...

June same-store sales, as expected, came in negative. According to Retail Metrics, same-store sales fell 4.3 percent. Retail Forward's stats show a 4.2 percent decline. (Retail Forward's data includes 32 retailers and the results can be viewed in...