Category Archives: Part 2: Ownership, Strategy Mix, Online, Nontraditional

This sub-category encompasses retail institutions by ownership type, retail institutions by store-based strategy mix, and Web, nonstore-based, and other nontraditional forms of retailing.

Is the Store of the Future Already Here?

With the rapid technological advances in the digital marketplace, the stores of today — and the stores of the near future — usually operate and look much different than the stores of just ten or fifteen years ago. As Retail … Continue reading

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How Good Are Walmart’s Debt Ratios? Very!!

For a while now, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.’s financial performance across several measures, especially in the United States, has not been up to the expectations of stock analysts — or the retailer’s own senior executives. Consider these recent headlines:  “Walmart Slashes … Continue reading

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Retail Leader’s CEOs of the Year

Retail Leader magazine is relatively new and has a special focus: In today’s rapidly changing, intensely competitive, and economically challenging environment, the demand has never been greater for a new and concise media resource that delivers news, analysis, and information specific … Continue reading

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