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.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. —Even as the economy shows signs of recovering, retailers are expanding their selection of store brands and working to persuade more customers to try — and stick with — their products.
LOS ANGELES — Automation — long a force in agriculture and manufacturing — is accelerating in the retail sector, a trend that could hamper efforts to bring down the nation's stubbornly high jobless rate.
The final obstacle to a northeast Wichita Cabela's was removed Tuesday.
The Wichita City Council said no on Tuesday to a community improvement district at Kellogg and Rock Road.
West Wichita shoppers can now get a gallon of milk and a two-by-four under the same roof.
HACKENSACK, N.J. —Price surges in cotton and other fabrics have retailers and manufacturers feeling stretched and facing a tough choice: Pass higher costs along to their customers or absorb them, thus cutting into profit margins.
Sasnak Management, the Wichita-based parent for Carlos O'Kelly's and an Applebee's franchisee, reshuffled its management Tuesday, naming Jon Rolph president.
Wichita is among the 46 Ultimate Electronics stores that will close as part of the Colorado retailer's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, a store employee confirmed Monday.
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