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SAN FRANCISCO — Lawyers representing former and current female workers of Wal-Mart Inc.' s California stores on Thursday filed the first of a planned "armada" of class-action lawsuits accusing the retailer of gender bias.
NEW YORK — Wal-Mart Stores, the nation's largest private employer, is scaling back the eligibility of health care coverage offered to future part-timers and raising premiums for many of its full-time workers.
NEW YORK — McDonald's Corp.' s third-quarter net income rose by 9 percent as it kept defying a tough economy and attracting more customers.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. —Lowe's Inc. is closing 20 stores and opening fewer than half of the new stores it had planned in the coming years, the company said Monday.
WASHINGTON — U.S. consumers stepped up their spending on retail goods in September, a hopeful sign for the sluggish economy.
NEW YORK — The International Council of Shopping Centers said it expects holiday sales to increase 3 percent this year.
LOS ANGELES — As retailers head toward the all-important holiday season, they have reason to be optimistic: Months of solid sales are widely expected to carry through to the end of the year, when shoppers are most likely to open their wallets.
The first of five Walmart Neighborhood Markets opens today on Wichita’s west side.
NEW YORK — Retailers' slowest earnings growth since the last recession has them bracing for a weakened second half as the economy leaves consumers confronting the prospect of losing their jobs and a volatile stock market.
LOS ANGELES — Fitness shoes that wobbled into major-league popularity last year with names like Shape-ups, EasyTone and TrueBalance are getting a tough workout these days.
A QuikTrip spokesman says the convenience store chain is surprised and disappointed by the sudden failure of the company's one-year dip into the debit card business.
Trader Joe's, the specialty grocery chain, might not have the cheapest toilet paper or the most varieties of ketchup, but it hooks customers with mango butter, chocolate-covered pomegranate seeds and cilantro-and- jalapeno hummus.
Hutchinson native David Dillon, who now runs Kroger, spoke to a packed Wichita Rotary Club luncheon Monday.
LOS ANGELES — Wal-Mart wants to extract more green out of greening.
Dillons officials are rolling out in Newton the company's newest idea in its partnership with Kwik Shop, the Kroger convenience store chain.
After watching a big part of his customer base wilt away, the owner of Wichita Wholesale Florists figured he had to do something.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. —Office Depot admits it hasn't been taking care of business when it comes to its retail store customers.
Hobby Lobby officials have raised the store's minimum wage for full-time employees to $12, the third $1 hourly increase in the past three years.
The Golf Warehouse is consolidating operations, expanding into a warehouse across the street and hiring more workers. The company — founded in Wichita in 1998, but owned by Redcats USA since 2006 — is seeing strong growth in the sale of golf, baseball, softball and soccer merchandise.
NEW YORK — Wal-Mart Stores is hammering home its low-price message with a new ad campaign in a bid to bring back customers who no longer trust it to save them money.
