Carson’s to close after parent company fails to find buyer
Carson's will shut down its department stores by late summer after more than 160 years in operation. After parent company Bon-Ton Stores failed to find a bidder willing to keep...
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Starbucks to close all U.S. stores afternoon of May 29 for anti-racial bias training
Starbucks has announced plans to close all U.S. stores and corporate offices on the afternoon of May 29 to train employees against racial bias after the arrest last week of...
Supreme Court could decide fate of online shoppers’ sales tax free ride
In Illinois, shopping on Amazon used to feel like it came with a discount: no sales tax charged at checkout. That ended three years ago, when the Seattle e-commerce behemoth...
Sears to close last store in Chicago, the city that helped launch its growth into a major retail presence
Sears opened its first-ever store in Chicago 93 years ago. This summer, it will close its last department store in the city. The embattled retailer informed employees at the Six...
First blowback, then feedback: United won’t implement employee bonus lottery program
United Airlines won't be making any changes to its employee bonus program this year after halting plans for an unpopular lottery-style system. United told workers last month that it would...
United’s quality rating improves, but still ranks low among big carriers
Despite a handful of high-profile incidents that dominated headlines last year, United Airlines was one of only three carriers to improve on every measure tracked by an annual airline rating....
A year after a passenger was dragged off a United flight, everyday indignities remain
It started with a passenger refusing to give up his seat aboard a Sunday evening United Express flight from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to Louisville, Ky., last April to make...
‘Small-format’ Target to open at former site of Logan Square Discount Mega Mall
Target plans to open another of its smaller stores in the Logan Square neighborhood, just a little more than a mile and a half from an existing store in Avondale....
10,000 Sister Jean bobbleheads and counting: Loyola racking up merchandise sales ahead of Final Four
With a little more than 48 hours remaining before the Loyola Ramblers face off against the Michigan Wolverines in the NCAA Tournament’s Final Four, sales of maroon and gold scarves...
At Amazon’s Monee warehouse, robot co-workers are the new normal
While President Donald Trump was tweeting his “concerns” about Amazon on Thursday morning, accusing the company of “putting many thousands of retailers out of business,” the Seattle-based e-commerce giant was...