The Wall Street Journal has a report that Barnes & Noble's management isn't interested in acquiring Borders Group, which put itself up for sale in March. The Journal article says that there are bound to be a bunch of bitter investors who bought up Borders stock in anticipation of such an acquisition....

MUMBAI, INDIA-The firms are investing in 500,000-sf to one-million-sf centers anchored by Reliance hypermarts.

MUMBAI, INDIA-The firms are investing in 500,000-sf to one-million-sf centers anchored by Reliance hypermarts.

In one of the larger retail acquisitions we've seen for a while, CVS is buying Longs Drugs for $2.9 billion, adding over 500 stores to its 6,300-unit portfolio. What intrigues us about the deal is that CVS is pulling the trigger to beef up its store base on the West Coast. What? There is an area of the...

Well, they're saying the stimulus checks are all spent. Though we saw some boosts in July sales, particularly at discounters like Costco and Wal-Mart, apparel and department stores were both hammered by same-store sales plunges. We guess people were a little more interested in necessities than getting...

We had no idea (and could've been the last to know...excuse us) that Tim Brown, former star wide receiver for the Oakland Raiders and Notre Dame, has an investment-advice column. In this one, he talks up Starbucks as a stock pick, saying it "has great brand recognition and customer loyalty here in the...

WEST HARRISON, NY-Students will start using the three-level, 62,500-sf facility on Aug. 20.

We haven't followed Buca di Beppo for a while, so it came as a surprise when we saw that Planet Hollywood is buying the 88-restaurant Italian chain for $28.5 million including debt. We knew that Buca was having some troubled financial times - even before the economy started going way south - and always...