White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Thursday that "in a lot of communities" the pandemic is a root cause of the smash-and-grab robberies occurring across the country. “So when a huge group of criminals organizes themselves and they...
NEW YORK (AP) — Target will no longer open its stores on Thanksgiving Day, making permanent a shift to the unofficial start of the holiday season that was suspended during the pandemic. To limit crowds in stores, retailers last year...
NEW YORK (AP) — Retail sales fell for a third straight month as a surge in virus cases kept people away from stores during the critical holiday shopping season. The report released Friday is yet another sign that the pandemic...
NEW YORK (AP) — Neiman Marcus has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the first department store chain and second major retailer to be toppled by the coronavirus pandemic. The move by the 112-year-old storied luxury department store chain was...
NEW YORK (AP) — Macy's, Kohl's and Gap Inc. all said Monday they will stop paying tens of thousands of employees who were thrown out of work when the chains temporarily closed their stores and sales collapsed as a result...
SEATTLE (KOMO) – Seattle-based Nordstrom says it will have its alteration teams in several states sew more hundreds of thousands of medical masks for healthcare workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus crisis. The store's alterations teams in Washington, Oregon,...
Less than three months ago came the first reports of cases of pneumonia related to a virus first detected in Wuhan, China. The outbreak of the virus that causes COVID-19 has caused unprecedented disruptions that have brought an unparalleled shock...
