Retail

Merchants could use a strong finish after last year’s holiday season, when retailers wound up with their worst sales drop for December since 2008, according to U.S. Census Bureau data analyzed by FTI.

Consumer purchases rose by 0.3 percent in November.

After regulators delayed the vote on Hudson’s Bay buyout, Richard Baker and his investors’ group might terminate the deal.

Shorter leases, smaller store formats and new types of tenants were the topics of discussion on day three of the annual conference.

The ski slope at the American Dream mall opened on December 5. It’s the first indoor ski slope in North America.

The retailer won approval for liquidation even though a federal bankruptcy watchdog claimed that a previous sale attempt was “tainted.”

There were more retail CEO exits in 2019 than in any year since 2010.

Banks, debt funds and life insurance companies are willing to lend on retail projects, but the projects needs all the “bells and whistles.”