Specialty Retailing

Pharmacy Giant Walgreens Taps Tim Wentworth to Be CEO

The incoming chief executive faces a tough challenge, with a core business under pressure due to pharmacy-benefit managers such as…

9 months ago

U.S. Car Sales Expected to Increase Again in the Third Quarter

The car market has yet to see an impact from UAW strike-related factory shutdowns. Source link

9 months ago

Meal-Kit Maker Blue Apron to Be Sold

The sale to food-delivery startup Wonder would end a disastrous six-year experiment with public ownership. Source link

9 months ago

Instacart Prices IPO at $30 a Share, at Top End of Expectations

The grocery-delivery company is valued at nearly $10 billion ahead of its long-anticipated public-trading debut Tuesday. Source link

10 months ago

Amazon Searches for Its Next Big Hit

Listen to article(1 minute)The team atop Amazon.com has been pushing for years to find what they call a “fourth pillar,”…

10 months ago

Walgreens Chief Executive Steps Down

Rosalind Brewer has stepped down less than three years after taking the helm of the pharmacy operator. Source link

10 months ago

Consumers Are Spending Like It's 2019

Shoppers have shifted their spending habits in a postpandemic world, leaving retailers in the lurch. Source link

10 months ago

Dick's Sporting Goods Blames Theft for Profit Woes

The retailer’s second-quarter earnings fell short of expectations and it incurred a fresh round of severance expenses from recent job…

11 months ago

Retailers Are Fleeing Downtown San Francisco. IKEA Is Moving In.

Listen to article(1 minute)IKEA thinks it can succeed where a string of other retailers have given up—in San Francisco’s beleaguered…

11 months ago