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Byline: Diana Louise Carter Tops Friendly Markets has filed for bankruptcy. Rochester-area Sam's Club stores abruptly closed. Toys R Us and its affiliated Babies R Us stores are going out [...]

'No cardboard is allowed on the floor of a Kmart store,' district manager Jeff Gilbert reminded employees at the chain's Tom's River, NJ location. Nodding their heads at the friendly [...]

Kmart Holding shares rose sharply, since emerging from bankruptcy in May 2003, giving the discounter a market value of $8 billion. Kmart is shedding real estate, investing little in it's 1,500 stores, letting its sales shrink and keeping prices high, relative to rivals Walmart and Target, in an apparent attempt to capitalize on the part of its customer base.

Byline: Ashley Rodriguez and Maureen Morrison KMART CREATIVE Mark Andeer has left the company, and the retailer has made personnel, structural and process changes to its marketing team as part [...]

MARKETFOODS LTD. OF Rogers, which owns The Market at Pinnacle Point, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Jan. 24 and closed its upscale grocery store near Chicago. In the [...]

Byline: SHARON EDELSON Wal-Mart Restructures E-commerce Operations Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is shaking up its e-commerce department after the resignation of its two top leaders. Raul Vazquez, executive vice president of [...]

Byline: JON SPRINGER NATICK, Mass. - BJ's Wholesale Club said last week that it would close five clubs and lay off almost 500 workers as part of a strategic restructuring [...]

Managing Retail's New Reality: Restructure, Change the Rules There's one way to manage through 'The New Normal' restructure. That's the call from leading industry figures, notably Allen Questrom, who believes [...]

By Lisa Cross LaVigne files for bankruptcy, keep jobs in the USA and other online feedback. 'Walmart offering printing services [in Canada] is another example of what's killing small businesses [...]

Byline: just-food.com US retail giant Wal-Mart has played down reports that plans to restructure its Chinese operations could be derailed by opposition from employees and their union representatives. The company, [...]

Byline: just-style.com Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world's largest retailer, is to revamp its struggling apparel unit in an attempt to make sure its styles are more in tune with its [...]

GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. - The sale of Dollar General to a private buyout firm may provide some near-term competitive relief to supermarkets, industry observers said last week. The impending privatization of [...]

NEW YORK - The decision by Wal-Mart here to customize assortments is an idea whose time has come, industry observers told SN last week. Their comments came in response to [...]

Poor John Fletcher. The Coles Group chief executive was just about to announce a brave and much needed restructuring when his thunder was stolen by rumours of Wal-Mart preparing to [...]

RETAIL WAL-MART has restructured its senior home ranks by splitting up merchandising responsibilities between two executives. Paul Beahm, previously senior vice president and GMM of home, will focus on hard [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Securities and Exchange Commission here said last week it is continuing to investigate Fleming Cos., after filing a civil complaint against five former executives earlier this month [...]

LONDON -- Asda, Wal-Mart Stores' U.K. division, plans to lay off 1,400 workers in a bid to cut costs and regain its share of the intensely competitive British market. Some [...]

NEW YORK -- As Kmart unveiled its new retail concept in four more locations this past weekend, it's clear from the design of these latest test stores that the mass [...]

Byline: just-food.com US warehouse club operator BJ's Wholesale Club has announced several changes in merchandising personnel, including the promotion of Brian Riccio to senior vice president, general merchandise manger of [...]

TROY, Mich.-Kmart seems to be taking the 'better late than never' stance with the recent revamp of its consumer electronics department, in which the product assortment is migrating toward digital [...]

TROY, Mich. -- The future of Kmart here was a subject of speculation once again last week after the discounter named a new chief executive officer to replace former Sears [...]

NEW YORK -- So far this week it's been a mixed bag for retailers posting quarterly results, but one theme is quickly emerging: Fall is going to be hot, and [...]

NEW YORK -- When it comes to Kmart, earnings are better than sales -- at least to Wall Street. Well, that's true for now before gas prices head toward $3 [...]

Tom Thumb Food Markets Inc., which recently closed its 131 convenience stores in Minnesota and Wisconsin, filed for bankruptcy on Mar. 9. The Hastings, MN-based subsidiary of Polka Dot Dairy [...]

NEW YORK -- Kmart may be out of bankruptcy, but it is still mired in intrigue. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago has determined that the old bankrupt [...]

Two investment firms that provided the cash for Kmart Holding Corp. to emerge from bankruptcy might convert the retailer into a real estate investment trust if the company doesn't survive. [...]

REIT proposed for Kmart if retail rebound fails Two investment firms that provided the cash for Kmart Holding Corp. to emerge from bankruptcy might convert the retailer into a real [...]

As the number of empty big-box retail stores continues to grow across the nation due to consolidation or bankruptcy, some alternative uses for that surplus space reflect the ultimate in [...]

* Kmart Corporation recently announced it would close another 326 stores and eliminate 37,000 jobs during its ongoing effort to reorganize and emerge from bankruptcy. Kmart filed Chapter 11 on [...]

Kmart Corp.'s plan to close 326 stores is going to take another bite out of Little Caesar Enterprises Inc.'s pizza empire. The two companies also remain in talks to change [...]