Sandra M. Jones

With pundits forecasting the toughest holiday selling season in recent memory, odds are a swath of familiar store names are going to disappear. In past economic downturns, troubled retailers could...

The Dow has sunk below 10,000, Wall Street is in turmoil and big banks are disappearing. But that hasn't stopped Neiman Marcus from mailing its much-anticipated annual Christmas Book catalog...

General Growth Properties Inc. said Friday that Chief Financial Officer Bernard Freibaum, who has been obliged to sell millions of company shares to satisfy margin calls, has left the embattled...

Many retail chief executives were speaking at a Goldman Sachs conference as they released their August sales results. A few themes were repeated throughout the presentations: Consumers are making their...

Mayor Richard Daley has taken pains to try turning Chicago into a fashion town, hiring a fashion czar and setting up programs to keep fledgling designers from fleeing to the...

When it comes to the Fox River Valley, Batavia often is overshadowed by its flashier neighbors Geneva and St. Charles. I decided to spend the day exploring the charming, unpretentious...

The treacherous U.S. retail climate is prompting many retailers to turn their sights overseas. The latest gambit comes from Macy's, the department store operator struggling to turn around declining sales....

Consumers are trading down but not out. With the economy straining, shoppers are shying away from home decor, eating out less, switching to grocery store house brands and getting their...

At a Seattle gathering of CEOs in May, Crate & Barrel retail visionary Gordon Segal sat next to billionaire investor Edward Lampert and asked: Why did you buy Sears? He...

One of the biggest shopping days of the year got off to a record early start on Friday with stores such as Kohl's and J.C. Penney opening as early as...