Retail workers, too often shuffled to the bottom of the deck when considering powerful occupations in this country, have been revealed to, perhaps, have the most power of all.

Steve Howard, a Swedish businessman who holds the extraordinary rank of “chief sustainability officer” at Ikea, wants to build a better world — one Allen key at a time.

Toronto ranks 17th in an annual survey of the world's most desirable retail markets in the 2013 edition of "How Global is the Business of Retail?",

Once considered the domain of the marketing department alone, in-store data collection is increasingly emerging as an important tool for enhancing the day-to-day operation of a brick-and-mortar store.

The April 24 collapse of the clothing factory complex in Bangladesh that killed at least 427 people (and left a further 149 still unaccounted for) has shaken the retail industry to its foundations. The number of western retailers — typically mum about their relationships with the Bangladeshi garment factories that are the source of their cheap clothes — have come …

American drugstore goliath Walgreens grabbed the headlines recently with an announcement of a plan to build what it claims will be the first “net-zero” retail store on the continent. That this massive, hydra-headed operation — the largest drug retailer in the US — whose 8,100 retail outlets together consume massive gulps of energy in servicing their 6.3 million daily customers, …

Very little on the retail landscape has sparked more anticipation than the long-ballyhooed arrival of American general merchandise giant Target inside these Canadian borders. The first trio of the little darlings (in Milton, Fergus and Guelph, Ont.) flung open their doors a few weeks ago to throngs of expectant shoppers, fresh off a feeding frenzy of American hype over the …

What do you do when you want to confirm a rumour about the possibility of Google opening its own string of name-brand proprietary retail stores? Easy: Google it.

See a penny, pick it up, the singsong expression goes, all day long you’ll have good luck.

Retailers, jack your prices! The number-one reason we choose to shop where we do is convenience, it turns out, and not price.