Top 100: 90. Dollar General

After raising $444 million in an IPO taking the discount retailer public in 2009, private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. promptly paid down $73…

Five ways retail kiosks can extend a brand

Kiosks can make it next-to-impossible for consumers to forget a brand.

Council takes wait-and-see approach to mobile payments

PCI SSC announced it would not approve or list any mobile-payment applications as compliant for the time being.

Top 100: 93. Michaels Stores

Founded in 1984, Michaels Stores anticipated the modern arts and crafts boom by providing nascent painters, scrapbookers, knitters, florists and cake…

Top 100: 92. JCPenney

While other retailers closed stores or laid off workers in response to the downturn, JCPenney continued investing, most notably opening its first Manhattan…

Top 100: 91. Family Dollar

Yet another "dollar store" (see Nos. 82 and 90) has reported a sharp increase in profit thanks to wary consumers in a struggling economy. Family Dollar’s…

Top 100: 94. Old Navy

Old Navy hoped to leverage consumers' renewed frugality last year when the company recommitted to its original focus and began redesigning more than a thousand…

Top 100: 95. Ross Stores

Even though off-price discount retailers have generally been top performers in recent years, Ross Stores has distinguished itself against its closest…

Top 100: 96. Sears

With Sears Holdings Corp.'s total revenues falling $93 million to $10.5 billion for the second quarter of 2010, the retailer began revamping its Web strategy.

Top 100: 97. Staples

The top U.S. office supplier recently announced a new corporate sustainability strategy, and challenged its suppliers to join in. "Race to the Top" calls on…

Top 100: 98. TJ Maxx

The fashionomics (as TJ Maxx terms it) of off-price retail is simple: selling clothing and accessories from major-label brands at low prices. By forging solid…

Top 100: 99. Toys "R" Us

In an effort to position itself as being more convenient for customers, Toys "R" Us launched some 600 Express pop-up stores in malls and shopping centers…

Five things customers hate about holiday retail

by James Bickers — Editor, Networld Alliance

Repetitive music, crowded aisles are on the list of things that can send shoppers screaming from your store.

Top 100: 100. ZARA

Rather than promoting predicted trends via fashion shows and similar channels of influence, ZARA focuses its attention on understanding the fashion items its…

Survey reveals generational differences in holiday shopping plans

Mobile phones have become an integral part of holiday shopping, in a number of ways.

Aligning store labor and inventory leads to customer advocacy

Inability to integrate labor and inventory forecasts can drag down customer experience.

Four ways retailers can reach out for last-minute holiday sales

by James Bickers — Editor, Networld Alliance

Location-based marketing, personal touch among the ways stores can squeeze every sale out of the season.

Why hasn't RFID adoption taken off in retail?

New technologies, trends point to RFID making a big impact on retail in the coming months.

Five retail IT trends to watch in 2011

From inventory optimization to mobile marketing, retailers will focus on customer retention in the coming months.

MasterCard, Visa websites shut down in WikiLeaks-related hacker attack

Hackers today shut down MasterCard Worldwide's website and disrupted cardholders' payments.