All the headlines from our Retail Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 26 2015 // The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Wednesday it is investigating Lumber Liquidators Chinese-made laminate flooring following a national TV broadcast raised concerns over levels of formaldehyde.Chairman Elliot...
Mar 16 2015 // Retailer Lumber Liquidators said on March 12 that it stands by its products and will pay for the safety testing of laminate floors for customers to help ease concerns.The Toano, Virginia, company addressed concerns raised...
Feb 23 2015 // In mid-November 2014, Texas’ largest association of independent retail insurance agents took the unprecedented step of acquiring a managing general agency as a way of providing its members greater access to...
Feb 20 2015 // A Wal-Mart driver involved in a highway crash that killed a comic and severely injured actor-comedian Tracy Morgan has asked a judge to reconsider her decision not to delay Morgan’s lawsuit against the company.Truck...
Feb 17 2015 // The end of Target’s Canadian operations is having a financial impact on businesses in Minnesota that supplied the retailer.Target’s Canadian division filed for bankruptcy protection last month and owes nearly...
Feb 9 2015 // In mid-November 2014, Texas’ largest association of independent retail insurance agents took the unprecedented step of acquiring a managing general agency as a way of providing its members greater access to...
Feb 9 2015 // A Coos County, Ore., man badly burned when he poured gasoline on a fire is suing Walmart, claiming the gas can he bought there was defective.Daniel Rowlett is seeking $13 million. He says Walmart sold him a plastic can...
Feb 4 2015 // The Wal-Mart Stores Inc. driver whose truck crashed into a van carrying actor-comedian Tracy Morgan lost a legal bid to halt a lawsuit against the company while criminal charges are pending against him. Kevin Roper, who is...
Jan 27 2015 // A Coos County, Ore. man badly burned when he poured gasoline on a fire is suing Walmart, claiming the gas can he bought there was defective.The Register-Guard reported Daniel Rowlett is seeking $13 million. He says Walmart...
Jan 23 2015 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reached a confidential legal settlement with the family of comedian James McNair, who died in a June 7 accident on the New Jersey Turnpike that also seriously injured actor-comedian Tracy Morgan.The...
Jan 8 2015 // A southeast Kansas woman who says she was trampled at a Wal-Mart store on Black Friday in 2013 is suing the retail giant, claiming it did not do enough to protect her or make it clear to customers that so-called doorbuster...
Dec 5 2014 // Fire officials say they believe a recent blaze at a metro Atlanta Wal-Mart was set intentionally. Gwinnett County fire spokesman Tommy Rutledge said in a statement that the fire at the department store in unincorporated...
Nov 23 2014 // A Target Corp. lawyer told a judge that the company had no legal obligation to banks that claim to have lost tens of millions of dollars after a hack last year on the retailer’s payment processing systems.Target...
Oct 9 2014 // Three of the biggest insurance firms for Sears Holdings Corp.’s suppliers are seeking to reduce coverage, prompting at least one medium-sized vendor to halt shipments to the department-store chain, people with...
Oct 1 2014 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it wants to settle a negligence lawsuit by actor-comedian Tracy Morgan, a day after blaming the celebrity for injuries he sustained when his limousine bus was struck by a speeding company...
Sep 29 2014 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said actor-comedian Tracy Morgan is to blame for injuries he sustained in June highway crash because he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.Morgan, who was critically injured when the limousine bus he was...
Sep 19 2014 // Home Depot Inc. Thursday said some 56 million payment cards were likely compromised in a cyberattack at its stores, suggesting the hacking attack at the home improvement chain was larger than last year’s...
Sep 8 2014 // More than 1,000 U.S. retailers could be infected with malicious software lurking in their cash register computers, allowing hackers to steal customer financial data, the Homeland Security Department said recently.The...
Aug 25 2014 // More than 1,000 U.S. retailers could be infected with malicious software lurking in their cash register computers, allowing hackers to steal customer financial data, the Homeland Security Department said Friday.The...
Aug 22 2014 // A Chinese retailer is offering insurance to customers who buy infant milk powder, highlighting the lengths to which companies are going to address concerns about food safety in China.Suning Commerce Group Ltd, which owns...