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Rite Aid is closing even more stores in 2024. See if yours is on the list.

Thu, 06/20/2024 - 16:03

Rite Aid — Rite Aid is planning to close more stores in 2024.
Reuters/Noah Berger

Retail, rite-aid, drug-stores, Retail, Stores, store-closures, Bankruptcy

Amazon Fresh is trying to remind customers it's not just a fancy returns point

Wed, 06/12/2024 - 14:30

People lining up outside an Amazon Fresh store in Pasadena, CA — Some Amazon Fresh patrons are using the stores to return things they bought on Amazon.com.
MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images

Retail, amazon, amazon-fresh, Shopping, Grocery, Stores, Returns

Dollar General has shut down self-checkout at a whooping 12,000 stores in the last few months. Here's why.

Fri, 06/07/2024 - 12:09

dollar general storefront people — Dollar General has cut thousands of self-checkout locations to fight theft.
AP Photo/Eric Gay

Retail, dollar-general, dollar-store, Self-Checkout, Stores, Retail

T.J. Maxx is making some employees wear cameras to catch shoplifters

Wed, 06/05/2024 - 12:39

tj maxx in manhattan — Some store employees at T.J. Maxx have to wear body cameras.
Gabbi Shaw/Business Insider

Retail, Stores, Theft, tj-maxx, Shopping, Retails, Shoplifting

Amazon Fresh is the latest retailer to cut prices to win over inflation-weary shoppers

Mon, 05/27/2024 - 11:02

The front of an Amazon Fresh store in Chevy Chase, Maryland. — Amazon Fresh is the latest grocer to announce price cuts.
Alex Bitter/Insider

Retail, amazon, Shopping, Retail, Stores, Inflation, amazon-fresh

Shoplifting's biggest enablers might be the retailers themselves

Tue, 04/16/2024 - 05:17

People shopping in a Walmart. — People shopping at a Walmart Supercenter store in Rosemead, California, in 2019.
FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images

Retail, Retail, Stores, Shoplifting, Shopping, Theft

Frustrated Dollar Tree shoppers threaten to ditch the store after it announces $7 items

Mon, 04/08/2024 - 05:07

Exterior of a Dollar Tree — As Dollar Tree starts to offer more-expensive items, some shoppers say they'd rather shop at other stores such as Walmart.
SOPA Images/Getty Images

Retail, dollar-tree, dollar-stores, Stores, Shopping, Inflation

Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop

Wed, 04/03/2024 - 13:10

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Amazon Fresh store Just Walk Out technology — Amazon is pulling its Just Walk Out cashierless technology from its Amazon Fresh grocery stores.
Reuters/HENRY NICHOLLS

Retail, amazon, just-walk-out, checkout, Self-Checkout, Shopping, amazon-fresh

Dollar stores are supposed to do well regardless of the economy. Turns out, that's not true.

Wed, 04/03/2024 - 05:04

A woman wearing a light pink headband and a red-and-grey hoodie carries a bottle of Coca-Cola and some salad dressing while talking on a cell phone and standing in front of a Family Dollar store. To the left, a white, red, and yellow sign that reads — Dollar stores have run into trouble lately after years of doing well regardless of the economy.
Scott Olson/Getty Images

Retail, Retail, dollar-stores, family-dollar, dollar-tree, dollar-general, Shopping

Why we don't actually know whether retail theft is a big problem

Tue, 03/26/2024 - 16:04

A store employee wearing a red vest and a black long-sleeved shirt handles a jug of laundry detergent at a locked case with other jugs of Downy detergent on shelves. At the top of the photo, a keychain hangs from the lock used to secure the shelf when it's not open. — Many retailers have locked up goods in response to a supposed rise in retail theft.
Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Retail, Shoplifting, Theft, Retail, Stores, Shopping

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