Beyond TikTok, Walmart Looks to Transform
Walmart’s planned investment in TikTok is being called “transformative.” Another analyst predicted the deal could “redefine retail” across the industry. “It is a bigger-picture opportunity,”...
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As School Begins, Mothers Working Retail Jobs Feel Extra Burden
The start of the virtual school year has been a struggle for Patricia Reveles, a pharmacy technician at a CVS in Los Angeles, whose daughter...
Small Businesses Need Rent Breaks. But Landlords Are in Crisis, Too.
After a laundromat in Manhattan said it could not pay its monthly rent in April and May, the manager of the property, Aaron Weber, asked...
Many Small Businesses Can’t Pay the Rent. A Deal With the Landlord Is Their Only Hope.
In March, when the Boston restaurateur Garrett Harker and his partners shut down their seven restaurants after Massachusetts issued lockdown orders, Mr. Harker assumed the...
America Waits in Lines, Even as the Stores Go Bankrupt
Some people gabbed, some groused; others stood silently, forming a line that snaked around the block, waiting for Century 21, the Lower Manhattan bargain hunters’...
North Korean Propaganda Gets a YouTube Makeover: Fewer Parades, More Pizza
SEOUL, South Korea — A well-dressed young woman toured a shiny, brightly lit grocery store in Pyongyang, where high-heeled women browsed shelves and refrigerators filled...
Terence Conran, Designer and Retail Magnate, Is Dead at 88
Terence Conran, a London designer and retailing magnate who eased the gloom of postwar British austerity with stylish home furnishings affordable on a teacher’s salary,...
Byron Lars Is Still Here
For the veteran fashion designer Byron Lars, who was named “rookie of the year” by Women’s Wear Daily in 1991, fashion moments never stop. Inside...
London Offices Aren’t Refilling Fast Enough for Shops Relying on Them
LONDON — Schroders, a big asset management firm, wants more of its workers to return to its office in the City of London. Over the...
Century 21, Fabled New York Bargain Destination, Is Closing
Century 21, the famous New York discount store chain, became the latest retailer felled during the pandemic, saying on Thursday that it had been forced...