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  • Macy's flagship Manhattan storeFinance

    Macy’s to claw back executive bonuses due to accounting scandal

    By Nicola M. White, Jeannette Neumann, and others
  • Bernard Arnault, billionaire and chairman of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, left, and Alexandre Arnault, vice president of Tiffany & Co., at the Viva Technology conference at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France, on Friday, June 18, 2021. Viva Tech is dedicated to innovation and startups and runs June 16 - 19. Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRetail

    Unachievable sales targets, lower commissions and more competition: How LVMH’s $16 billion bet on Tiffany & Co has fallen short

    By Jeannette Neumann and Bloomberg
  • Erik NordstromFinance

    Nordstrom family eyes go-private deal for ailing retailer—again

    By Jeannette Neumann and Bloomberg
  • Kid on phoneSuccess

    Gen Alpha ‘Sephora kids’ are dropping serious money on adult skincare. Brands say they should stop but see soaring sales

    By Jeannette Neumann and Bloomberg
  • CVS Pharmacy employee unlocking refrigerator to access energy drink for customer in August 2023 in Queens, New York. (Photo by: Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Retail

    EBay and CVS crime investigation ‘brothers’ take down retail thieves together by treating them like the mob: ‘They steal for a living’

    By Jeannette Neumann and Bloomberg
  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 29: Elon Musk speaks onstage during The New York Times Dealbook Summit 2023 at Jazz at Lincoln Center on November 29, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for The New York Times)Tech

    Walmart joins the growing list of big companies pulling their ads from Elon Musk’s X after his endorsement of an antisemitic post

    By Jeannette Neumann and Bloomberg
  • TORONTO, CANADA – NOVEMBER 24 : Shoppers are seen on Black Friday at Eaton Shopping Mall in Toronto, Ontario on November 24, 2023. (Photo by Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu via Getty Images)Retail

    ‘That’s not a Black Friday deal’: Pinched shoppers hold out for deeper discounts—boding ill for earnings

    By Jeannette Neumann, Olivia Rockeman, and others
  • Doug McMillon, chief executive officer of Walmart Inc., during a panel session on day two of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023. The annual Davos gathering of political leaders, top executives and celebrities runs from January 16 to 20. Photographer: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRetail

    Walmart CEO says high inflation has ended and that shoppers may soon encounter the polar opposite in stores: deflation

    By Jeannette Neumann, Brendan Case, and others
  • Kylie Jenner at the 2023 Met Gala: Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2023 in New York, New York. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images)Finance

    Kylie Jenner doesn’t like how Kylie Cosmetics has been managed and wants to buy back control of the brand she sold for $600 million

    By Kim Bhasin, Jeannette Neumann, and others
  • NEW YORK, NEW YORK – APRIL 24: A man walks near a closed store of Bed Bath & Beyond on April 24, 2023 in New York City. Bed Bath & Beyond filed for bankruptcy protection after the struggling failed to secure enough founds to stay open. (Photo by Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress)Retail

    Bed Bath & Beyond’s brand returns from the dead after another retailer adopts its name: ‘We’ll just be Bed Bath and a much bigger and better Beyond’

    By Jeannette Neumann and Bloomberg
  • Bed Bath & Beyond is in trouble, and engaged couples are steering clear of it.Finance

    Bed Bath & Beyond won’t survive if wedding registries are any indication

    By Jeannette Neumann and Bloomberg
  • A Bed Bath & Beyond store in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. said it would shutter another 87 stores in addition to the 150 closures it announced in August. Photographer: Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Bed Bath & Beyond has three weeks to squeeze $300M from equity markets to avoid bankruptcy

    By Eliza Ronalds-Hannon, Jeannette Neumann, and others
  • SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – MAY 08: Chief Operating Officer Maureen Sullivan (center, in polka dots) and San Francisco Mayor London Breed (center in red) cut the ceremonial ribbon with Rent the Runway staff and guests during the launch of Rent the Runway’s West Coast flagship store on May 08, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Kelly Sullivan/Getty Images for Rent the Runway)Retail

    Rent the Runway is giving customers an extra item for free in a play for inflation-burdened shoppers

    By Jeannette Neumann and Bloomberg
  • Bed Bath & BeyondFinance

    Wall Street bankers had to be talked out of liquidating Bed Bath & Beyond and throwing 30,000 people out of work, sources say

    By Eliza Ronalds-Hannon, Jeannette Neumann, and others
  • A Bed Bath & Beyond store in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. said it would shutter another 87 stores in addition to the 150 closures it announced in August. Photographer: Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRetail

    Empty shelves and layoffs: Inside Bed Bath & Beyond’s years-long death spiral. ‘Surely we could have done better’

    By Jeannette Neumann and Eliza Ronalds-Hannon