Retail

Starbucks is ending its open-door policy, and will start requiring people to be paying customers to hang out in stores and use restrooms.

Walmart unveiled a new logo for the first time in nearly two decades, saying the redesign highlights its evolution while also serving as a nod to its past.

Amazon announced it is pulling the plug on its "Try Before You Buy" service launched in 2017, which allowed customers to order multiple items to try on before purchasing.

Walgreens will permanently shut the doors of 12 of its San Francisco locations. The closures are scheduled for late February, according to the company.

Twenty-seven "underperforming" Kohl¡¯s stores are set to shutter this spring. The company published a list of the locations late last week.

Amazon just joined Meta, Walmart and a host of other firms in trimming back its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives amid activist pressure to end the programs.

Macy¡¯s on Thursday named 66 stores it plans to shutter this year through its "Bold New Chapter" initiative. The locations are spread across 22 states.

The Labor Department released its jobs report for December, which showed the U.S. economy added 256,000 jobs last month, well above economists' expectations.

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon met with President-elect Trump this week at Mar-a-Lago before Trump's inauguration in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20.

Costco has begun removing its coffee grinding services at a number of warehouse stores, causing online outrage among many of their members.

The leases of nearly 700 Party City stores are poised to go under the hammer amid the party supplies retailer¡¯s ongoing bankruptcy.

Online spending throughout the 2024 holiday shopping season reached a record high and was driven, in part, by generative AI chatbots that funneled traffic to retail sites.

Despite a growing list of companies abandoning DEI, one Costco board member has called for "maximizing" it in the workplace as the wholesaler grapples with a shareholder dispute.

Costco's Kirkland Signature Severe Cold & Flu Plus Congestion has been recalled for the second time in less than a month, for a different reason.

Walmart CFO John David Rainey explains why a growing number of customers are turning to them for their grocery needs. Rainey noted the new store experience is part of the reason.

Egg prices in California have increased to nearly $9 per dozen in some areas due to the outbreak of bird flu across the state, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Some people may plan to hit the stores on New Year¡¯s Day for their first shopping trips of 2025. Here's which are open and closed on the first day of 2025.