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J.Crew Factory joining The Shops at Kenilworth
Feb 7, 2022

J.Crew Factory joining The Shops at Kenilworth

Owings Mills-based developer Greenberg Gibbons announced that J.Crew Factory will join The Shops at Kenilworth this summer.

Judge says Amazon won’t have to restore Parler web service
Jan 21, 2022

Amazon heads to the mall with prototype clothing store

First, Amazon competed with malls. Now, it’s moving inside one.

FILE - Shoppers walk through Macy's on Nov. 26, 2021, in New York. Americans slowed their spending from November to December as a trifecta of product shortages, surging prices and a surge of the highly contagious omicron curtailed spending. Retail sales fell 1.9% in December compared with the previous month when sales increased 0.3%, the U.S. Commerce Department said Friday, Jan. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman, File)
Jan 14, 2022

December retail sales slip after a record holiday shopping season

After spending robustly early in the holiday season, consumers sharply slowed their purchases from November to December.

Top court hears BJ’s bid to stop suit over play-area injury
Dec 14, 2021

Wholesale inflation jumps record 9.6% over past 12 months

Prices at the wholesale level surged by a record 9.6% in November from a year earlier.

Gift cards for food and beverage businesses sit on display for sale at a retail store in Dallas on Nov. 16, 2021. The holidays have always been defined by disappointing out-of-stock messages on the most popular items. Many shoppers will turn more to gift cards if they don't like what they see. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Dec 2, 2021

Holiday shoppers navigate shortages with mixed results

The pandemic-induced supply chain snarls have created unprecedented shortages across all types of products this holiday season.

Mondawmin Mall Target among those to be closed
Nov 22, 2021

Target to keep stores closed on Thanksgiving for good

Target will not open its stores on Thanksgiving, making permanent a shift to the unofficial start of the holiday season that was suspended in the pandemic.

CVS Health opens 13 more drive-thru COVID-19 testing sites in Md.
Nov 18, 2021

CVS Health to close hundreds of drugstores over next 3 years

CVS Health will close hundreds of drugstores over the next three years.

Ginger Pigg in her gift boutique The Perfect Pigg in Cumming, Georgia on Oct. 22, 2021. She says she is struggling to get products to her store in a timely way. The boxes in the foreground are shopping bags that took 14 weeks to arrive when they normally would have arrived in 4 weeks. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)
Oct 27, 2021

‘Buy it when you see it’: Retailers dread holiday shortages amid supply bottlenecks

Because of bottlenecks in the global supply chain, many stores are scrambling to try to get all the inventory they can ahead of the crucial holiday shopping season.

In this July 21, 2021, photo, a consumer shops as she wears a mask at a retail store in Morton Grove, Illinois. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Sep 28, 2021

Consumer confidence slides for third consecutive month

U.S. consumer confidence declined for the third straight month in September as the delta variant of the coronavirus extends the life of the pandemic.

Walmart said it has reached a proposed settlement pact related to three lawsuits filed by shareholders on behalf of the company over the handling of prescription opioids. (Bloomberg file/ Patrick T. Fallon)
Aug 24, 2021

Walmart to launch delivery service for other businesses

Walmart says it will start commercializing its delivery service, using contract workers, autonomous vehicles and even drones to deliver other retailers' products.

New CDC guidelines set off rush to reimpose mask mandates
Jul 28, 2021

New CDC guidelines set off rush to reimpose mask mandates

States and businesses scrambled to change course after the federal government issued new guidance calling for the return of mask wearing in COVID hot spots.

This March 6, 2020, file photo, shows the headquarters for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. (AP Photo/ Ron Harris, File)
Jul 27, 2021

CDC reverses course on indoor masks in some parts of US

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reversed course Tuesday on some masking guidelines, recommending that even vaccinated people return to wearing masks indoors in parts of the U.S. where […]