While many department stores are closing, the family-owned Boscov's continues to open new locations. Boscov's employees attribute the chain's success to its focus on customer service. Unlike ...

Can department stores evolve enough to regain relevance? It might take more than the magic of Macy’s. The reason could be encapsulated in one sobering sentence by Macy’s CEO Tony Spring: The chain had ...

Department stores used to rule the retail world. Chains like Macy's, Filene's, and J.C. Penney anchored malls and drove ...

Back in February, American department store chain Macy’s announced it would be closing 150 stores as it plans on shifting its priority toward the marketing of its luxury items. It plans to close its ...

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Macy’s is entering A Bold New Chapter — at least that’s what it calls the strategy it announced on an earnings call Tuesday that was designed to reposition the company. To make that happen, the retail ...

Department stores chasing beauty sales are introducing some of the serve-yourself features of Sephora -- Nordstrom put in a ...

Before the nationwide influx of suburban malls and the convenience of online shopping, there was a golden age of American department stores. More than merely local shopping hubs, these ostentatious ...

PARIS, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Shein's move into the flagship BHV in Paris has added political heat to the troubles of department stores, which are facing an existential threat from shoppers' shift to ...

Macy’s announcement Tuesday that it will close 150 stores, or nearly a third of its total, is the result of a once-great department store industry in decades of decline. The gradual demise of the ...