All the headlines from our Retail Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 13 2012 // A University of California patent licensee which has sued some of the biggest U.S. companies is taking on three more — Facebook Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and the Walt Disney Co.Eolas Technologies Inc. and the...
Sep 10 2012 // If a store sells ammunition to an underage person who uses the bullets to kill someone, is the retailer responsible?Not necessarily, according to the Mississippi Supreme Court. The court ruled 5-4 this week in favor of...
Jul 25 2012 // Investigators say a man and three bystanders have been slightly hurt when his gun accidentally fired at a Walmart store in Dallas.Police say 23-year-old Todd Canady of Waco was booked on an evading arrest charge. Police...
Jul 10 2012 // Kentucky regulators have released a new license application that will allow retailers for the first time to sell insurance to cover the portable electronic devices they sell.State lawmakers earlier this year a law that...
Jul 5 2012 // Walmart and Target Corporation will pay $232,000 to cities and towns across Massachusetts to settle allegations that the companies allegedly overcharged public agencies for prescription drugs through the workers’...
Jun 12 2012 // New York City’s pension funds on Monday became the latest group to file a derivative lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. based on reported allegations of bribery in Mexico and a possible cover-up by Wal-Mart...
Jun 11 2012 // A U.S. judge on Friday said he was “seriously concerned” about whether women suing Wal-Mart Stores Inc. had enough evidence to move forward with their refiled gender discrimination lawsuit.Plaintiffs alleging...
Jun 8 2012 // Wal-Mart and independent agencies seemingly have little in common. Not so. There are many helpful ideas to cull from Mr. Walton’s amazing odyssey from one store to the largest retailer in the world — as revealed in...
Jun 4 2012 // An Idaho-based general contractor is suing Fred Meyer Inc. and its parent, Kroger Co., claiming the retail chain improperly dumped the contractor over the renovation of a Fairbanks, Alaska store.The Fairbanks Daily...
May 22 2012 // An Idaho-based general contractor is suing Fred Meyer Inc. and its parent, Kroger Co., claiming the retail chain improperly dumped the contractor over the renovation of a Fairbanks, Alaska store.The Fairbanks Daily...
May 21 2012 // Wal-Mart and independent agencies seemingly have little in common. Not so. There are many helpful ideas to cull from Mr. Walton’s amazing odyssey from one store to the largest retailer in the world — as revealed in...
Apr 25 2012 // The former head of Wal-Mart’s Mexico operations is stepping down from his current board positions at MetLife, effective immediately.The insurance giant announced Tuesday afternoon that Eduardo Castro-Wright had...
Apr 25 2012 // A shareholder sued the board and several officers of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Wednesday over allegations that the company’s Mexican affiliate paid bribes to local officials. The lawsuit seeks to recover damage to the...
Apr 20 2012 // The death of a 9-year-old Pomeranian from eating a dog treat is hardly “what nature intended,” according to a lawsuit filed this week.An Illinois man has sued Nestle Purina Petcare Co. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc.,...
Mar 23 2012 // Insurance direct marketer, GEICO, has announced that it is lowering commercial auto insurance rates for business owners in Texas.Commercial insurance packages cover the cars, trucks and vans used in conducting business,...
Mar 8 2012 // USI Insurance Services (USI), headquartered in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., has acquired the Euclid Insurance retail property/casualty and employee benefits division (Euclid Retail Business) from Euclid Insurance Services...
Mar 1 2012 // It hasn’t been the best of times for America’s Main Street businesses. Often facing overwhelming competition from big box stores, many small businesses face an uphill battle from the outset and more than a few...
Feb 6 2012 // It hasn’t been the best of times for America’s Main Street businesses. Often facing overwhelming competition from big box stores, many small businesses face an uphill battle from the outset and more than a few...
Jan 26 2012 // Insurance distribution is changing and agents and brokers—retailers and wholesalers—have to define the value they offer and what type of relationships they will have with carriers and customers in the years ahead,...
Jan 23 2012 // Retail and wholesale brokers face the challenge — and opportunity — of redefining their relationships and value proposition in today’s changing insurance distribution world, according to Glenn Hargrove,...