New Balance’s new Hyde Park store emphasizes classics
A new New Balance store that opened Tuesday in Hyde Park plans to carry the brand's largest selection of heritage-style classic sneakers in the Chicago area in hopes of tapping...
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Online Gap subsidiary bans sale of animal fur
Gap said it will no longer allow the sale of real fur on its online marketplace Piperlime after receiving pressure from animal rights activists and a teacher's Change.org petition that...
Wicker Park’s final frontier?
Even as Wicker Park transformed from a tough gangland into one of the hottest neighborhoods in Chicago, a stretch of Milwaukee Avenue just north of the Division Blue Line station...
Gap campaign includes ‘dressing normal’ in Chicago
As Gap's latest campaign exhorts the world to "dress normal" — which, despite the word choice, is not intended to celebrate conformity, but rather, individual style — the brand is...
Sears lets customers make returns, exchanges from their cars
Sears has expanded its in-vehicle pick-up service to include exchanges and returns, giving shoppers an added convenience — and, less optimistically, another reason not to leave their cars and walk...
Sears negotiates, Tie Bar opens, Benetton shuts Chicago store
Shoppers who linger long enough on a product page at searsoutlet.com may be nudged into buying with an age-old tactic: an offer to negotiate. Or, in the Internet age, to...
Claire’s opening branded shops inside Toys R Us
Claire's plans to open shops inside of 12 Toys R Us stores in the U.S. by the end of the year, part of the teen accessory retailer's strategy to sell...
Sears shares tumble on loan news
Sears Holdings Co. stock tumbled 9.4 percent Tuesday as investors reacted to news that the company received a $400 million loan from its own chairman and CEO. Shares were trading...
Cover Girl ‘Game Face’ ad becomes part of NFL scandal
Cover Girl has landed in the unflattering spotlight of the NFL domestic abuse scandal as activists pressuring sponsors to boycott the league circulate a doctored ad of a female football...
Survival 101
Sometime before midnight in the absolute blackness of the Vermont forest, my fellow survival campers and I snuffed out the fire we had built (OK, they had built) to kill...