A sign hangs outside the Shein warehouse in Whitestown, Indiana, on Nov. 29, 2023.Scott Olson | Getty ImagesThe chair of a powerful House committee is drilling down on Shein's data privacy practices and its relationship with the Chinese Communist Party as the fast-fashion giant moves closer to a U.S....
Target's shuttered small-format store on Folsom Street in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood, November 2023.Gabrielle FonrougeOn Sept. 26, Target set off a national firestorm when it said it would close nine stores in four states because theft and organized retail crime had made them too dangerous to run.On its face,...
Black Friday shoppers at a Lululemon store at the Garden State Plaza in New Jersey.Mike Calia | CNBCLululemon on Thursday said it saw strong third-quarter demand, but the retailer's shares fell as it gave a tepid holiday outlook.Despite a 12% jump in sales in North America and a 49%...
Visitors enter the venue at The NRF 2020 Vision: Retail's Big Show, held in New York, the United States, Jan. 12, 2020.Wang Ying | Xinhua News Agency | Getty ImagesThe leading retail lobbying group has walked back a key claim about shrink, or inventory losses from various sources, after...
Lawmakers are ramping up their scrutiny of Shein after it confidentially filed to go public last week.One congressman who sits on a key committee is even threatening to pursue legislation to bar the retailer from trading if the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission doesn't reject its application.Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer,...
A Shein Group Ltd. pop-up store inside a Forever-21 store in the Times Square neighborhood of New York, US, on Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. Yuki Iwamura | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesShein has confidentially filed to go public in the U.S. as the Chinese-founded fast fashion juggernaut looks to expand its...
American Dream megamall and entertainment complex in East Rutherford, N.J. After more than 17 years in the making, it finally opened October 25, 2019. Then came the coronoavirus pandemic.Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty ImagesNew Jersey's American Dream mall – the second largest mall in the country –...
A person walks past a sales advertisement at Saks Off 5th department store ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday sales in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 21, 2023.Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesThere's a dark cloud hanging over Black Friday.A slew of retailers have issued tepid, cautious or downright disappointing...
Nuuly warehouseNatalie RiceUrban Outfitters' clothing rental service Nuuly has eked out its first profit thanks to a steady stream of new subscribers and a whopping 86% jump in revenue, hitting the benchmark before competitor Rent the Runway, which has yet to turn a profit nearly 15 years into its...
American clothing and accessories retailer American Eagle store seen in Hong Kong. (Photo by Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Budrul Chukrut | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesShares of American Eagle plummeted 15% in premarket trading Tuesday after the company issued a holiday forecast that failed to impress. For its holiday quarter,...