Ever find yourself frustrated buttoning up those darn jeans?
Your smartphone might help retailers to be smarter about your purchasing habits and even let them send you targeted discounts while you shop.
Consult this handy calendar of what gifts to purchase, when -- courtesy of consumer-retail experts.
Barry Snyder fashioned simple sunbursts of fruit and vegetable stickers as a teenager in the late 1960s. Nowadays he spends months in his Colorado home making large mosaics using universal produce tags sent to him by admirers around the world.
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CNN's Richard Roth looks at the New York art auction season and speaks to artist Jeff Koons about the price of his work.
For serious shoppers, the Friday after Thanksgiving is game day: Kickoff is early (sometimes at midnight), and those on the front line can score the best deals. For retailers, it signals the start of the holiday shopping season.
The Gap has suffered for some time as retail rivals J. Crew and Abercrombie & Fitch continue to steal market share. Sales have fallen every year for the last five years, and though Gap has made headway into foreign markets like Japan, the bulk of its fortunes are tied to a shrinking U.S. market.
Sales at major retailers rose for a 10th straight month in June, but mixed results reported Thursday signaled that consumers are still cautious.
The next time you're asked if you want fries with that, you may be surprised at who's behind the counter.
The AMC series "Mad Men" has been honored for its sharp writing, polished acting and engaging portrayal of life at a New York advertising agency in the early 1960s.
Key West's historic Duval Street reopened Monday morning after a fire swept through a building housing three well-known businesses and temporarily shut down other popular spots on the island city's main street.
Does a brand identity really matter when people have turned away from shopping?
More than just the quintessential Seattle shopping experience, Pike Place Market is a tourist attraction in its own right. This historic farmers market is the place to pick up all manner of fresh local produce, as well as handmade crafts, jewelry, antiques and paintings. Keep your camera handy to snap the colorful floral displays and the fishmongers tossing whole salmon to each other.
Miami has plenty of shops aimed at the fashionista jet set, but in a city as culturally diverse as this, there really is something for everyone.
Financial expert Farnoosh Torabi fills you in on her best advice for navigating the racks.
In a bid to pull hesitant shoppers into their stores, retailers are slashing prices on everything from jeans to dinnerware. But those fat discounts will likely come at a big cost for the companies
Employees were underpaid millions of dollars and worked under sweatshop conditions at a New York factory that made garments for major retailers including Macy's and The Gap, the state Department of Labor said Wednesday.
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I had it all down to a system. Whenever a conversation would turn to the subject of age, I'd casually mention that I was 28, or 37, or 42, or however old I was at the time, and then I'd pause, magnanimously allowing people the beat they needed to acknowledge their surprise and commence with their compliments.
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The president of Gap North America says the company has fired the subcontractor who allegedly abused children.
Clothing retailer Gap Inc. has fired an Indian company accused of using child labor to make clothes, the company's president said.
Gap Inc. on Thursday posted second-quarter profits that met Wall Street estimates, helped by the retailer's ongoing cost-cutting initiatives and reduced discounts at its Gap and Old Navy stores.
Struggling clothing chain Gap Inc. could soon announce job cuts as part of its ongoing efforts to reduce business costs in light of weak sales and traffic trends at its stores, according to a published report Wednesday.
As the mentor to young designers on cable reality hit Project Runway and a teacher at Parsons School of Design for 24 years, Tim Gunn has cultivated some of the top talent in American fashion. But ...
The annual dinner thrown by investment bank Financo is the garment business's equivalent of Swifty Lazar's Oscar bash. When Gap CEO Paul Pressler missed the Jan. 15 event at New York's exclusive Ha...
The annual dinner thrown by investment bank Financo is the garment business's equivalent of Swifty Lazar's Oscar bash. When Gap CEO Paul Pressler missed the Jan. 15 event at New York's exclusive Harmonie Club, industry observers interpreted it as another sign that the former Disney exec's tenure was coming to an end.
It's only January but several retailers are already in spring cleaning mode and they're dumping senior executives, including their CEOs.
Greg is a 30-year-old regional manager for Rite-Aid, and he and his wife make about $60,000. They don't have any children, but they plan to soon. Greg shops at The Gap and Target.
Load up on A LOT of coffee after that holiday turkey because many more malls are promising to kick off the big holiday sales at the stroke of midnight as Thanksgiving becomes Black Friday.
Retail investors had three bits of bad news this morning: Wal-Mart's disappointment, Home Depot's warning, and Buffett's Gap dump. The question is, should they connect the dots or not?
During an investor conference call last spring, Gap Inc. CEO Paul Pressler did a mea culpa, admitting he was "disappointed" by the retail firm's sagging sales. Pledging that a turnaround was in the...
During an investor conference call last spring, Gap Inc. CEO Paul Pressler did a mea culpa, admitting he was disappointed by the retail firm's sagging sales. Pledging that a turnaround was in the works, he indicated that improvements in the company's clothing lines should appear by year's end.
If you're a big couch potato, this is a monumental week.
If you're hoping to turn heads for all the right reasons with your fashion choices, take a note from Daniel Vosovic.
Beth Orton, Keren Ann, Beth Gibbons, Aimee Mann, A Girl Called Eddy, Rachel Yamagata -- sometimes it seems as if an entire satellite-radio channel could be devoted to women with teardrop voices and sad, sad songs.
Bad news for holiday bargain hunters: Since so many of you were out there shopping the last full weekend before Christmas, retailers weren't offering deep-discount "panic sales."
choices--a classic single-breasted jacket, lightweight wool, dark navy, charcoal or black--and the right suit will see you through nearly every possible occasion for the next eight years or more. --INSUNG CHO ...
Snooze after that Thanksgiving meal and you could lose out on the juicy deals that some retailers will offer to shoppers as early as midnight on Thursday.
You could lay down $1,000 for a custom-made suit or buy an off-the-rack version plus all the stuff that goes with it. Regardless, shopping for this everyman uniform is serious business. Make smart ...
LUXURY BRANDS LIKE LOUIS VUITTON and Hermès have long thrived on the thrill of scarcity: Women scramble to get on wait lists for the season's "it" bag or must-have trench. This fall big chains like...
IN THE REALITY-TV-SPEAK of supermodel Heidi Klum, "You're either in, or you're out." When Jay McCarroll was dubbed "In" on the finale of Bravo's sleeper hit Project Runway, he walked away with a ma...
It's a problem most entrepreneurs would pray for: The Junk Gypsies have been blindsided by success. Their quirky little family business--reselling oddball clothes and furnishings that they find at ...
In the retail world, Gap's CEO Paul Pressler has been a star. But lately, he's not shining too brightly.
Even on a rainy February day in New York, around 2,000 people showed up at the Trump building and waited on line for three to four hours to compete to become "The Apprentice." Not so bright but very early, I joined a long line of hopefuls auditioning for the $250,000 gig.
It's got Ann Taylor, Pottery Barn, Williams-Sonoma and a Barnes & Noble, just like a regular suburban mall.
One hot holiday gift this year is that easy-to-buy "Get it Yourself" present: the gift card.
If fashion is your passion, there is hardly a better way to earn a paycheck than to work for a major magazine, unless you're pretty enough to grace the cover.
As the longtime manager of the Strong Opportunity (SOPFX) fund, Dick Weiss, 53, has often prospered by betting on companies in distress. A year ago he found himself working for one. Strong Capital ...
It's almost uncharacteristic for Abercrombie & Fitch, better-known for courting controversy over its risque advertising featuring skimpily-clad young models, to be so hush-hush about a new idea in the works.
Investors checked out of retailer Gap Inc. Thursday after it delivered a disappointing sales report card for July with failing grades in its three core divisions: Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy.
Back-to-school shopping was the predominant theme in July and helped provide some relief to retailers after a disappointing performance in the previous month but failed to fuel the big results.
Gap Inc. CEO Paul Pressler hinted Tuesday that the apparel retailer has two new concepts in the works that would extend the retailer's offerings beyond its three iconic brands of Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy.
Gap Inc.'s glaring December sales miss has many on Wall Street asking one question: What's the retailer doing differently this spring to allay fears that its year-long turnaround is starting to sputter?
Sure, you could decide whom to vote for by listening to the candidates speak and reading their position papers, but wouldn't it be easier if there were armies of political-science majors who did all the sorting and thinking for you?
As if file sharing weren't nightmare enough for record, er, CD stores, now they have new competition. Tower Records, meet Eddie Bauer. And Starbucks. And Banana Republic. Seems as if every trendy r...
Let's face it: The novelty of hearing your cell phone play Fur Elise--or even a riff from 50 Cent's "Wanksta"--wears off pretty fast. Ditto for most of those video games you can play on your handse...
Let's face it: The novelty of hearing your cell phone play Fur Elise -- or even a riff from 50 Cent's Wanksta -- wears off pretty fast. Ditto for most of those video games you can play on your handset.
Scantily clad men shakin' it in boxer shorts. Sailors in U.S.S. Target uniforms. Buff soap opera actors heating up local malls. Nope, it's not your imagination--over-the-top holiday promotions were...
Worn in England as a way of showing where you went to college--or where you wish you'd gone--the "schoolboy" scarf is back in style. But you don't have to cross the Atlantic to look sharp. Barneys ...
It's lunchtime in midtown Manhattan--otherwise known as the prime shopping hour. But the stores along Fifth Avenue, from Banana Republic to Saks, are all missing something: shoppers. The avenue's l...
Time was, khakis rocked. But after years of 30% year-over-year earnings growth at the Gap (GPS, $11), the retailer--which operates Old Navy and Banana Republic as well as its flagship brand--has be...
In the past couple of years, Gap (GPS) has made every bad move a retailer could. On top of major misses in fashion, the company failed to differentiate among its three brands (Banana Republic, Gap ...
Once we lived in a world of pinks, browns, and grays. Then came J. Crew, and we learned to see these colors as petal, root, and storm. And it wasn't just the color names that were different. Everyt...
Banana Republic has always been a friend to the fashion illiterate. Step into a store and you'll be hard pressed to find a shirt that doesn't match every pair of pants. But now the San Francisco re...
Stroll on by any message boards devoted to tech investing and you'll soon find investors arguing about gorillas, tornadoes and kings. No, these people aren't crazy. They're just Gorilla Gamers. Pro...
When two of finance's whitest-shoe firms, J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs, announced recently that every day would be casual-dress day, a bittersweet smile crept across the faces of well-heeled Wall ...
How do you create a hit? Sometimes all it takes is a whim. Back in 1991, Kate Brosnahan quit her job as an accessories editor at Mademoiselle magazine and joined forces (as well as names) with Andy...
In a loft studio near New York City's Union Square, designers for Structure, the men's clothing chain, hunch over their sketches, surrounded by piles of vintage jeans, stacks of magazines marked wi...
I grew up in a planned economy. Bureaucrats didn't run everything: Small-business men were more or less free to buy and sell as they saw fit. But those who controlled the economy's "commanding heig...
From Ford Broncos to Coke cans, the history of American scandal is the history of product placement. Even Watergate, the mother of all scandals, was essentially a years-long plug for a Washington l...
Of four professors who taught Mickey Drexler in his senior year at college, not one remembers him, not faintly. "The name doesn't mean a thing to me," says one professor of marketing. Classmates ar...
Not all companies distort earnings. Many outfits with smaller followings than the 30 Dow Jones blue chips have avoided big special charges that inflate their earnings. Here are six stocks that anal...
AND JUST EXACTLY HOW did "Old Navy" get picked as the name for the clothing-store juggernaut that is even now rumbling noisily across the blasted landscape of retailing, reverberating in our weary ...
Mel Ziegler, the entrepreneur who founded the Banana Republic clothing stores, was jetting home to San Francisco from the East Coast in April 1990 when he became engaged in a captivating conversati...
So many customers got sore at their dry cleaners last year that the industry zoomed from No. 11 to No. 7 on the Better Business Bureau's list of the top & consumer complaints -- beating out even au...
Retail equities may not be the cheeriest to own at the moment -- as a group they're off 16% since early August -- yet the Gap has the makings of a great stocking stuffer. This San Francisco retaile...
Try this on: you've decided to scale back your holiday hoopla this season by spending less on gifts, giving more to charity and getting closer to the Tspirit of yuletide past. Joy to the world seem...
MILLARD DREXLER, president of the Gap, is seeing red -- literally. The holiday window display at the Gap store in the Stanford Shopping Center, about an hour south of downtown San Francisco, featur...
A news item about a company catches your eye. It sounds like a business you might want to invest in, but you know nothing beyond what's in the brief article, which does not say where the company is...
The Woolworths and the Hartfords built their wealth discovering the idea. Leslie Wexner of the Limited and Sam Walton of Wal-Mart Stores amassed their money perfecting it. Now Donald Fisher, 59, th...
Come September, catalogues from Williams-Sonoma, Tiffany & Co., Eddie Bauer, and more than 200 other companies will show up in some 75,000 magazine outlets, including bookstores and newsstands. Sel...
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