Before contemplating what new challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for retail in 2022, I thought a little reflection might be in order. In reflecting on my 2021 retail musings, I discovered a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chris Walton is a former Target executive turned retail journalist. It is that time of the year again. It is time to raise a glass ...

Potato sales in 2021 were up compared with pre-pandemic levels of 2019, but fell short of 2020 sales, according to a new report from potato farming marketing organization Potatoes USA. Compared with ...

Adobe and Salesforce's ongoing tracking of the retail sector provides insight into how the Holiday season rolled out in practice in 2021. With the Holidays behind us for another year, how did ...

Retail sectors that are hesitant or unsure of how to adopt digital consumer offerings must consider that consumers live in an Amazon-driven world. Instant, seamless and accessible shopping is the ...

It has been another whirlwind year for the retail industry. Although COVID-19 continued to create market volatility and cause customer sentiment to careen like a pinball, we saw brands and retailers ...

While 2020 proved to be a record year for retail bankruptcies, it continued to spill over into 2021 as many companies couldn’t hang on as shoppers disappeared and sales dwindled. The lingering ...

Retail traders made their mark on Wall Street in 2021, and final results are now in. It started in January, when millions banded together on social media sites like Reddit to drive massive gains in ...

Investors were a bit more confident in retail real estate in 2021, as pandemic restrictions started to ease for brick-and-mortar stores and visions turned to redevelopment plans that include housing.

The past two years haven’t been very kind to an already hurting brick-and-mortar retail industry. The retail apocalypse continues to hit big-box stores hard, and many have struggled throughout the ...

Retail sales declined 1.9% in December, much worse than the forecast for a 0.1% drop. Weak online sales were responsible for much of the slide along with a fall in spending at bars and restaurants.

Retailers have reported a busy holiday shopping season but it comes after two years of difficult times amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Big-box stores have been hit hard by shutdowns and inflation just as ...