Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Clara covers consumer brands shaping tomorrow's retail landscape. Department stores have traditionally attracted boomers ...

As the wholesale sector buckles under the weight of tariffs, shifting consumer behavior and difficult brand relationships, retailers across the US and Europe share how they’re luring in holiday ...

Department stores are, in may ways, at the end of the line. However, before the days of online shopping, they thrived. These are several once prominent department stores only Baby Boomers will ...

Can department stores evolve enough to regain relevance? It might take more than the magic of Macy’s. The reason could be encapsulated in one sobering sentence by Macy’s CEO Tony Spring: The chain had ...

Today, it's easy to go on a shopping spree without leaving your couch, but it wasn't long ago that shopping was an event, and heading to a fancy department store might even require getting dressed in ...

A trek around the island of Manhattan at retail’s busiest time of year.

FILE -- A closed and partially demolished Vallco Shopping Mall in Cupertino, Calif., Nov. 5, 2019. Department stores are disappearing at a rapid clip amidst the coronavirus pandemic, a decline that ...

Big department-store chains from JCPenney to Macy’s are unloading their properties as fast as they can. Dillard’s is buying real estate. The department-store chain this month purchased the Longview ...

The shift comes at a critical time for department stores, whose market share in many key areas of beauty has been eroding for the last several years. COVID-19 exacerbated many of the issues, forcing ...

Running through May 24, "May I Help You, Madame? The Making of the Modern Department Store" is on view at Palm Beach's ...

More people are refreshing their wardrobes at department stores again as they head back into restaurants and offices. That’s great news for stores like Macy’s, Nordstrom and Kohl’s— but the comeback ...

Once upon a time, we went to department stores and malls to get our clothes, music, toys, even lunch. Do you remember these ...