Retail

H&M has been fined more than $41 million for allegedly tracking hundreds of employees’ personal lives on a company database.

Black Friday has long been the unofficial start to the U.S. holiday season, though retailers have been pushing holiday shopping earlier for the last decade or so. This year there’s more urgency.

The pop star shared a photo of a pair of Crocs floating in a swimming pool with the caption “Soon” on Thursday.

The Honest Company is said to be seeking a valuation of more than $1 billion.

Clothing giant H&M plans to close hundreds of stores next year as the COVID-19 pandemic drives more shoppers online. 

The largest mall in the United States is opening a dedicated retail space to businesses encumbered by the pandemic and unprecedented civil unrest in the wake of George Floyd’s death.

A key measure of demand for big warehouses soared 51% in the first half of 2020 as the pandemic-driven surge in online sales sent companies scrambling for space to store and deliver goods to locked-down consumers.

Global digital sales this upcoming holiday season will increase by 30% and reach all-time highs as consumers who have been staying away from brick-and-mortar stores because of the coronavirus pandemic increasingly turn to the Internet to make their purchases, Salesforce is predicting. 

Luxury coat company Canada Goose is riding the tailwinds of the pandemic-driven push toward outdoor activities.

The upscale department store’s announcement comes a year after Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s said they will no longer sell fur, although it goes a bit further.

Walmart is redesigning stores to mirror its online shopping experience, encouraging customers to download its app.

Forget the partridge in a pear tree, Sam’s Club just released a much more practical gift for celebrating “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”

The spread was reportedly released just before Neiman Marcus Group disclosed that it expects to emerge from Chapter 11 by the end of September after filing for relief in bankruptcy court in May. 

Two Confederate-themed Halloween costumes are being pulled from the shelves of Party City after a White Virginia woman who adopted two Black children slammed the outfits as racist. 

LVMH announced earlier in September it was backing out of what was expected to be a historic $16.2 billion deal.

Instead of using a credit card or smartphone to pay for your goods, Amazon wants you to use your hands.

Target has finally announced the date for its big annual shopping event — and it just so happens to coincide with Amazon’s Prime Day. Target’s Deal Days event will take place on October 13 and 14 and “will feature digital deals on hundreds of thousands of items, more than double last year,” the company said in a statement on Monday.

It turns out that pepper-spraying each other for a discounted flat-screen TV was never really a necessary part of the holiday shopping experience after all.

Grocers are looking to beef up their inventory ahead of the upcoming holiday shopping season and in preparation for a potential second wave of COVID-19.