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Target Corp. has issued 1.4 million Visa smart cards since rolling out its chip card program in September, says a spokesperson for the Minneapolis-based retailer. Target first offered the Visa [...]

As Christmas approaches, online and catalog retailers are scurrying to deliver their merchandise to consumers on time. But what about after the holidays, when about one-fourth of all orders are […]

ACTIVITY: Launches www.itrust.com, an online store for financial products and services that the retailer will market to employees, customers and the general public. E-VANGELIST: Federated's Web initiative is a natural […]

The Association of Fundraising Professionals, Central Ohio Chapter will award the following at its National Philanthropy Day on Nov. 20: Outstanding Philanthropist, R. David and I. Lorraine Thomas, Wendy's International [...]

GUCCI'S BONUS: Payments of Gucci Group's special $7-a-share dividend will commence following the Dec. 14 transfer of funds to two payment agents, Kas Associatie NV and Bank of New York, [...]

'No more checks, no more stamps!' is the rallying cry Sears, Roebuck and Co. uses to attract consumers to its e-billing service. But it's retailers that have the most to [...]

Some retailers try cross-marketing gift cards Nordstrom isn't trying to be on the cutting edge of the stored-value-card movement. But the department store retailer is earning that reputation anyway. Case [...]

Federated Department Stores has debuted its 'store-of-the-future' format in Easton Town Center, Columbus, Ohio. The 240,000-sq.-ft. Lazarus store includes a number of new concepts, some of which Federated has tested [...]

Bloomingdale's is considering opening a store in [...]

J.C. Penney Co. is spending $100 million to add 14 stores by the end of the year. The planned stores will have a number of new features, including wider aisles [...]

Kohl's Department Stores will enter the Houston market next year as part of the 70 stores it plans to open in [...]

The Sears at Washington Crown Center in Washington County has added 8,000 square feet of selling space. The 32-year-old store also installed new lighting, fixtures and floor coverings. The home [...]

Neiman Marcus Vice President for public relations Kenneth Downing puts a quick quash on rumors the luxury department store may delay its Mall at Millenia opening by a year. 'We'll [...]

The time employees of Dillard's Corp. once spent looking for parking spots at local restaurants is now used to decide which toppings to put on their pizza. Dillard's unveiled its [...]

NEW YORK -- It's not just your garden variety Lazarus store opening in Easton, Ohio, on Thursday. Executives from Federated Department Stores call it 'the store of the future' and [...]

Hoffman Estates, III.--Sears, Roebuck and Co. is officially a jewelry e-tailer. Sears added the e-commerce category of 'Jewelry & Watches' to its Sears.com Web site this fall. The move to [...]

SEARS CANADA MOVES: Sears Canada Inc. has announced a deal with Canada's national passenger rail service, VIA Rail Canada, to offer its 9.1 million Sears cardholders another payment option for [...]

NEW YORK -- Sears, Roebuck & Co. is returning to its roots -- in cyberspace. Sears.com, whose corporate parent has downplayed fashion goods offline and since the exit of former [...]

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. -- Sears, Roebuck and Co. has decided to exit the color cosmetics and skin care businesses, including its proprietary Circle of Beauty Brand. 'As work on improving [...]

Eight years ago, business associates of Limited Inc. chief Les Wexner traveled to Nordstrom Inc. in Seattle, where they told the company's real estate executives about a planned Columbus-area retail-and-entertainment [...]

Behind a set of discreet French doors on the second level of Saks Fifth Avenue at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center is a shopping service that few consumers will ever [...]

Tool Territory, the new hardware department concept by Sears, has opened in 12 Central Florida Sears stores. In addition to locations at Fashion Square and Florida Mall in Orlando, Tool [...]

Though the Nordstrom department store is getting most of the attention, it won't be the only high-end retailer to open at Easton Town Center come Sept. 7. Germain Lexus also [...]

Target's new Bullseye website, launched last week, hopes to be the destination of teens everywhere, covering what's new in fashion, beauty, music and events, as well as offering advice and [...]

NEW YORK -- Advancing its strategy of wholesaling private labels, Federated Department Stores will begin supplying department stores in Australia, Chile and Peru with its private brand merchandise. The private [...]

Landmark London department store Liberty will offer customers a wider selection of women's shoes and beauty, fragrance and cosmetic products when its refurbishment is complete. A cafe bar will be [...]

Nordstrom Inc. launched a new online beauty store, [...]

Tupperware 'parties' will move inside all 62 SuperTarget stores in October, when the retailer begins stocking Tupperware products. The move parallels another recent retail first: Avon cosmetics becoming available at [...]

New York-Federated Department Stores is relaunching its two biggest shopping sites and merging its direct mail and Web infrastructures in an effort to ramp up online sales this holiday season […]

Marks & Spencer claims it is set to become the first food retailer to completely remove battery eggs from its food range. The chain, which has been bolstering flagging fortunes [...]

First Banks Inc. plans to acquire Swansea, Ill.-based Union Financial Group Ltd. for about $26.8 million. Union Financial Group operates two wholly owned bank subsidiaries, State Bank of Jerseyville and [...]

NEW YORK -- Saks Inc. said Tuesday it will close its White Plains, N.Y., Saks Fifth Avenue department store 'due to weak financial performance.' The Birmingham, Ala.-based retailer said it [...]

* The chain has eschewed mainstream moneyspinners for its first c-store format and is sticking to what many say it does best. Marks and Spencer is clinging to a few [...]

NEW YORK -- Federated Direct, striving to turn its Internet operations profitable in 2003, officially relaunches macys.com today. It's been rebuilt with a bolder designer and gift-oriented presentation, quicker registration [...]

NEW YORK -- While most e-commerce survivors in the click-and-mortar crowd are in cost-cutting mode -- and some are curtailing efforts to sell fashion on the Internet -- bloomingdales.com is [...]

Hey, Austin. We've hit the big time. After much speculation, we're going to be home to a Nordstrom department store. But don't whip out your charge cards just yet. The [...]

Sears, Roebuck and Co. will launch an on-line program this summer that will allow customers to pick up Web purchases at local stores on the same day, as early as [...]

Following a successful three-market test, Target will roll out its Target Visa card nationwide. The result of a partnership with Visa U.S.A., the Target smart Visa cards are powered by [...]

Ailing retailer chooses south London for convenience format trials Marks and Spencer's first convenience format store opens in Surbiton High Street on July 10. A second will follow in Twickenham [...]

A new take-out bar at JCPenney HQ in Plano, TX, is capturing more business by offering more variety and quality. A large salad bar island in South Cafe was converted [...]

Selfridges is running a `Tokyo Life' promotion in its London and Manchester stores throughout May. The shops have been transformed into mini-versions of the city of Tokyo, with Japanese fashion, [...]

Saks Fifth Avenue is making sure customers stay connected. The Galleria store recently struck a deal with CompUSA and opened Technology@Saks on the first floor of the store between the [...]

Marks & Spencer hopes to redress the problem of 90 per cent of British women wearing the wrong bra size by introducing a new in-store bra-fitting sensor to its lingerie [...]

In an effort to consolidate its loyalty programs, Hudson's Bay Co. launched HBC Rewards. The program unites the company's family of stores--Zellers, The Bay, Home Outfitters and hbc. com--and will [...]

Japanese retail group Ito-Yokado has launched its own banking operation, known as IYBank. The new bank started deposits on May 7, followed by other services later in the month. Customers [...]

* RSVP Soiree in Preston Center has added a bridal registry offering glasswear, linens and other items. The store, which offers luxury party rentals, is owned by Kimberly [...]