Department stores are the hot new thing”—said no one in the last 20 years. Yet despite decades of closure headlines, plenty ...

The retail landscape is experiencing a significant shift as online shopping options increasingly pressure traditional brick-and-mortar stores. This ongoing transformation is reshaping consumer habits ...

Digital experiences have come a long way, but technology can’t replace in-store shopping, especially for specialty retail stores. “Stores are valuable assets,” Jon Copestake, EY Global consumer senior ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Pam Danziger reports on retail, focused on the luxury consumer market. Despite headlines of major store closures and bankruptcies ...

If retailers want their multichannel strategy to work, the mall supply chain cannot remain reactive. It has to become ...

Even as higher-end department stores struggle, off-price retail is thriving, showing that Americans are still spending, just more selectively. TJX Companies – which owns TJ Maxx, Marshalls and ...

Retail isn’t dying—it’s shifting. More than 900 stores are set to open in 2026, even as weaker locations close. Discount ...

Gen Z is rewriting the rules of holiday shopping. Deloitte projected that Gen Z’s 2025 holiday spending would drop 34% from the previous year, with an emphasis on budgeting and deal-hunting. And while ...