Tag: Retail and wholesale

Starbucks turns to a celebrity CEO as it struggles to define itself for an era of mobile orders

To Howard Schultz, the chaos he observed at a Starbucks in Chicago one recent morning summed up the troubles of the company he...

LL Flooring, formerly Lumber Liquidators, is going out of business and closing all of its stores

NEW YORK -- LL Flooring, the hardwood flooring retailer formerly known as Lumber Liquidators, is going out of business.Less than a month after...

The century-old Nordstrom department store chain gets a $3.76 billion bid from the Nordstrom family

NEW YORK -- Members of the Nordstrom family with the help of a Mexican retail group are offering to take the century-old department...

The CEOs of Kroger and Albertsons are in court to defend plans for a huge supermarket merger

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The chief executive officers of Kroger and Albertsons were set to testify in federal court Wednesday, midway through a three-week...

2 women charged in Lululemon shoplifting scheme in Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS -- Two Minnesota women are charged with organizing thefts of several thousand dollars' worth of merchandise from a Lululemon store in Minneapolis...