Susan Chandler

Here's a little quiz: ESPN is (a) a cable channel that shows sports 24 hours a day; (b) the hottest brand for men since Playboy; (c) both. Sears, Roebuck and...

There weren't many retail angles to the scandal about President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky until The New York Times ran a color photo of "the tie" on page one....

A well-received Smithsonian Institution exhibit on sweatshops in America won't be traveling to Chicago or anywhere else outside the capital. That's because the show got a flat turndown or a...

It's a subtle transition but a symbolic one. Montgomery Ward & Co. is now referring to itself as simple, plain old Wards. The transformation, which began under Wards' new CEO,...

The chief financial officer of Sears, Roebuck and Co. has been wooed away by Monsanto Co., leaving another hole in the management team crafted by Chief Executive Arthur Martinez. Gary...

Where is Ald. Burton Natarus when you need him? The protector of public propriety among Magnificent Mile retailers should be aghast at a display of T-shirts in the window of...

Racism in retailing. It's not an issue that many retail companies want to acknowledge, let alone discuss. Yet lots of tony retailers choose to run their advertisements only in high-income...

The rest of Chicago may have been thanking El Nino for those 55-degree January days last winter, but not the executives at Evans Inc. The Chicago-based fur and apparel chain...

Buying a musical instrument for a child is an expensive proposition for many families. A drum set can run $1,500; a saxophone can set the family budget back $1,200. In...

Retirees of Sears, Roebuck and Co. haven't had much to cheer about recently in their fight to have life insurance benefits restored. While their lawsuit in Chicago against the Hoffman...