November’s same-store sales were released yesterday, and retailer’s results were far from overwhelming. The International Council of Shopping Centers says sales overall were actually down 0.8% year over year for the month. Dow Jones has a pretty...

The map below (courtesy of current) is a sobering, time-elapsed look at how counties were impacted by the unemployment picture. We wonder if the largest number of store closings are in the black areas on the map. Click below and see what you think. c

Men’s Health just released its list of the 20 worst restaurant foods in America, and it’s kind of shocking. A 1,700-calorie chicken wrap at T.G.I. Friday’s? A California Pizza Kitchen chicken salad with 2,200 calories? Of course, not so surprising is...

Black Friday weekend has come and gone, and most reports make it sound like retail sales were marginal at best. The National Retail Federation says that more people shopped but spent less money.The average amount each customer spent, it says dropped...

A recent Fitch Ratings report predicts a holiday season that’s better than some worst-case scenarios out there. It also says that due to liquidity improvements, we’re not likely to see retailers file the same number of bankruptcies that we did in...