The historic Saks department store chain has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy with a much lower level of debt and a smaller ...

As retail chases the next big trend, Dillard’s offers a reminder that consistency, profitability, and customer trust still ...

Imagine a shop where you can buy everything. OK, OK, yes we’ve heard of the Internet, but we were thinking of an actual real-life shop. Because there’s something about a physical store that online ...

Department stores and chain stores are two different concepts. Department stores have a long history of offering a wide variety of goods for retail sale, while chain stores are retail outlets in ...

Macy’s announcement Tuesday that it will close 150 stores, or nearly a third of its total, is the result of a once-great department store industry in decades of decline. The gradual demise of the ...

Every department store in America, from the low end to the high, has tried some way to drag the retail concept into the 21st century. It's a monumental task, considering the model was born in the ...

Author and historian Leslie Goddard’s fascination with department stores runs in the family. Her grandfather was a department store lifer, working first for Marshall Field’s then Carson Pirie Scott.

Department stores can structure their organizations in numerous ways, based on what they sell, if they have multiple locations and other factors. Some department stores may even use a combination of ...