Growth and Business Development

Target hit the trifecta in the fourth quarter with increased customer traffic, e-commerce fueled same store sales growth and better than expected profits.

Walmart and social food network Tasty just launched a licensed cookware line that marks a new development in a strategic partnership begun last year.

​​​​​​​The dollar and convenience store channels expanded in 2017 while the drug and supermarket channels contracted slightly.

Dollar General’s 4.3% third quarter same store sales increase handily exceeded analysts’ estimates and the company disclosed a massive, even by Dollar General standards, 2018 real estate plan involving new and remodeled stores.

The nation’s leading retail and consumer goods trade organizations quickly praised passage of tax reform legislation Wednesday afternoon as a holiday gift for retailers and Americans.

​​​​​​​During a year in which the retail industry saw record store closings, value retailer Five Below bucked the trend with more than 100 store openings with even more on tap for next year.

Investor affinity for grocery-anchored shopping centers has endured through market cycles and the continually evolving landscape of retail, itself.

Everything that could go right did go right for Dollar Tree in the third quarter leading President and CEO Gary Philbin to increase the company’s full year outlook.

Alibaba recorded an eye-popping $25.3 billion in sales during its one day 11.11 Global Shopping Festival and brands such as Mondelez, Mattel, Gap, Gerber and L’Oreal were part of the action. The massive sales figure during the 24-hour November 11 period was a 39% increase from the prior yea

Living the jerky lifestyle is now a lot easier in Minnesota where leading meat snack supplier Jack Link’s has opened its first Wild Side store, an exercise in brand building that doubles as a product testing lab. Inspired by the brand’s Wild Side ad campaign featuring the mythical creature Sasqu

Dollar General made a second key hire as the operator of 14,000 stores shows it is taking digital a lot more seriously.

New Wegmans in N.C. approved