Retail

FILE - In this June 5, 2014 photo, Conquisia Tyler, right, gives change to a customer at Sam's Club in Bentonville, Ark. The Commerce Department releases retail sales data for July on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Sarah Bentham, File)

Retail rebound slowed in August amid coronavirus surge and expiration of added jobless benefits

Jay Heflin · September 16, 2020 12:52 pm

Food Lion reverses policy banning employees from wearing US flag masks after Air Force veteran quits in protest

Andrew Mark Miller · September 5, 2020 5:41 pm

Magazine - Your Land

The new veganism

Timothy P. Carney · September 4, 2020 3:00 am

Old Navy offers to pay employees to be poll workers on Election Day

Haley Victory Smith · September 2, 2020 5:17 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, an Amazon.com package is prepared for shipment by a United Parcel Service (UPS) driver in Palo Alto, Calif. States could force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes under a bill that the Senate advanced on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Small businesses say they’re suffering mail delivery delays

Jay Heflin · August 21, 2020 3:00 am

Retail sales increased 1.2% in July to record high

Jay Heflin · August 14, 2020 12:31 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, an Amazon.com package is prepared for shipment by a United Parcel Service (UPS) driver in Palo Alto, Calif. States could force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes under a bill that the Senate advanced on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Fitness equipment flying off shelves as people stay fit sheltering at home

Jay Heflin · August 14, 2020 3:00 am

Magazine - Your Land

Long list of shortages including Dr. Pepper

Timothy P. Carney · August 14, 2020 3:00 am

Discount placards stand in the window of a clothing store as last-minute shoppers finish up their Christmas gift lists.

Shoppers plan to skip brick-and-mortar stores as holiday spending season looms

Alexandra Lonas · August 3, 2020 10:45 am

FILE - In this June 3, 2019, file photo a shopping cart sits in the parking lot of a Target store in Marlborough, Mass. On Friday, June 14, the Commerce Department releases U.S. retail sales data for May.

Target to close stores on Thanksgiving due to coronavirus

Alexandra Lonas · July 27, 2020 8:19 pm

A worker from a Servpro disaster recovery team wearing a protective suit and respirator peers out a window as he waits to exit the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash. for a break from cleaning the facility, Wednesday, March 11, 2020, near Seattle. The nursing home is at the center of the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Washington state.

Coronavirus prods companies to speed up automation plans, costing jobs

Jay Heflin · July 24, 2020 3:00 am

Word of the Week: ‘Exotic’

Nicholas Clairmont · July 24, 2020 3:00 am