FortuneAmazon Amazon's New Store for Beauty Professionals: How Much of a Threat?Fortune - Kate Dwyer News of Amazon entering the professional beauty product industry did startle Wall Street, with competitors’ stock taking a hit. But with a longer …
FortuneOld Navy Old Navy Launches Purple 4th Inclusion-and-Unity CampaignFortune - Kate Dwyer Although the color isn’t associated with American patriotism, the fashion retailer, starting today, is leaning into the hue for the Fourth of July as …
FortuneOld Navy Old Navy Launches Inclusion and Unity Purple 4th CampaignFortune Although the color isn’t associated with American patriotism, the retailer, starting today, is leaning into the hue for the Fourth of July as a sign …
FortuneJuul San Francisco Is the First U.S. City to Ban E-Cigarettes SalesFortune - Ellen Huet Although San Francisco is home to America’s most popular e-cigarette brand, city officials are signaling that they want nothing to do with Juul. The …
FortuneAmazon Amazon Has Big Plans to Make Prime Day 2019 More Lucrative Than Ever BeforeFortune - Xavier Harding Last year’s Amazon Prime Day broke records with 100 million items sold. This year, the company is raising the stakes by making Prime Day 2019 a …
Fortune7-Eleven Stay Put. 7-Eleven and Postmates Will Deliver Slurpees and Chips to Your Place in the SunFortune - Anne D'Innocenzio Craving a Slurpee but lacking the motivation to get off a park bench? 7-Eleven launched a delivery service Monday that will send a Slurpee or almost …
FortuneAmazon Amazon Sends Stocks of Yet Another Segment of Retailers Crashing—Data SheetFortune - Aaron Pressman Amazon’s ability to disrupt profitable businesses tends to alarm investors whenever news or a rumor emerges of its next target. It doesn’t always …
FortuneRetail Fila Making Strides With 1990s Fashions. Remember Dad Shoes?Fortune - Yoojung Lee They’re the chunky, thick-soled throwbacks to the 1990s known as dad shoes. And they’re beloved by millennials, whose fascination with retro footwear …
FortuneBarnes & Noble Why Barnes & Noble May Soon Look Like the Local Bookstores It Killed OffFortune - Phil Wahba The Barnes & Noble saga may yet have a happy ending. The retailer, still the largest U.S. bookstore chain despite years of shriveling sales, was …
FortuneRetail Big Gay Ice Cream Cofounder on Growing a Small Business from Coast to CoastFortune - Rachel King Out of the worst recession the country has seen since the Great Depression, and in the span of a decade, Big Gay Ice Cream has grown from …
FortuneRetail Gin Sales Are Booming and It Could Be Thanks to the Growing Plant CrazeFortune - John Kell In 2018, global consumption of gin grew faster than any other beverage alcohol category. Brandy Rand thinks she knows why, and she calls it her …
FortuneAlcohol Alcohol-Free Bars Caught on in the U.S. and U.K. But Can They Go Global?Fortune - Anna Ben Yehuda Rahmanan In the United States, there’s the salad bar. In Italy, you take your espresso at the bar. In Japan, standing sushi bars are popular destinations. …
FortuneRetail 9 Nonfiction Page-Turners to Bring to the Beach This SummerFortune - Rachel King Whether it’s hours spent waiting in an airport terminal because of an unexpected (but really, expected) delay or hours under the sun (with sunscreen) …
FortuneRetail California Puts Illegal Pot Shops (and Shoppers) on NoticeFortune - MIchael R. Blood Marijuana shoppers are going to be getting a message from California regulators: Go legal. Aiming to slow illegal pot sales that are undercutting the …
FortuneTaco Bell Get Ready to Order Taco Bell's Newest Limited-Edition Menu Item: a Hotel RoomFortune - Laura Stampler Taco Bell will start accepting reservations next Thursday for The Bell, its recently announced pop-up resort—where fans of the brand will be able to …
FortuneRetail Toys ‘R’ Us Is Coming Back From the Dead and Opening Stores in 2019Fortune - Matt Townsend Maybe American kids will only have to live through one Christmas without Toys “R” Us. About a year after shuttering U.S. operations, the remnant of …
FortuneFIFA World Cup Women's World Cup: Who's Up for a Big Payday?Fortune - Kate Bowers The U.S. women’s soccer team is crushing it on the field, winning its first three FIFA World Cup matches by a combined score of 18-0, but who—besides …
FortuneWalmart Walmart Pays $138 Million in Years-Long DOJ Bribe InquiryFortune - Tom Schoenberg Walmart Inc. has agreed to pay about $138 million to settle U.S. Justice Department claims that its Brazilian unit violated U.S. bribery laws to …
FortuneRetail L'Oreal Taps its First Female President for the World's Biggest Beauty BrandFortune - Robert Williams L’Oreal SA has named the first female president of its flagship cosmetics label, elevating Delphine Viguier-Hovasse to the top job at the world’s …
FortuneApple Store Apple Is Partnering With Best Buy for Repairs. Is That Enough to Fix Consumers' Complaints?Fortune - Lisa Marie Segarra Apple announced Wednesday that it’s adding Best Buy retailers to its previously-exclusive list of authorized repair locations. The facts of the …
FortuneRetail Trump's 'Nightmare' China Tariffs Could Destroy the U.S. Bridal Gown IndustryFortune - Laura Stampler U.S. bridal gown designers and retailers are saying “I don’t” to President Donald Trump’s ongoing trade war with China, arguing his latest call for …
FortuneRetail GameStop Wants to Be the 'Local Church' of GamingFortune - Chris Morris It’s not exactly shocking news that GameStop seems to be at risk of facing game over. After disappointing first-quarter earnings (comparable store …
FortuneCigarettes San Francisco May Ban All E-Cigarette SalesFortune - Samantha Maldonado San Francisco supervisors are considering whether to move the city toward becoming the first in the United States to ban all sales of electronic …
FortuneRetail Planters Peanuts Introduces a Sneaker, But Act FastFortune - Chris Morris Planters Peanuts has rolled out a line of sneakers. Dubbed Crunch Force 1 (really!), the shoes are only available through Friday, June 21 at 6pm, …
FortuneRetail Target's Pre-Father's Day Register Outage Cost the Retailer $50 Million, Analyst SaysFortune - Matthew Boyle The impact of Target’s weekend register glitch won’t show up until the retailer discloses quarterly revenue in August, but it could have cost the …
FortuneUniversity of Wisconsin Big Dairy Battling Vegan Industry in Butter-Labeling WarFortune - Deena Shanker Miyoko Schinner is a perfect illustration of the American dream. To the U.S. dairy industry, however, she is something altogether different. A …
FortuneBeef Beyond Meat’s Next Product Will Be 'Ground Beef'Fortune - Chris Morris The company has announced it will introduce a new ground beef substitute, called “Beyond Beef” next Monday, June 24. The plant-based product will …
FortuneRetail Pillsbury Recalls Flour on E. Coli FearsFortune - Chris Morris Pillsbury is recalling 5 lb. bags of its Pillsbury Best Bread Flour in ten states after learning of a possible E. coli contamination. Roughly 4,620 …
FortuneRetail Bigger Isn't Better With Seattle's Newest RestaurantsFortune - Naomi Tomky When Vinnie’s Raw Bar opened this week in the hallway-like space between Chris and Anu Elford’s spacious, much-acclaimed two-year-old sibling bars …
