Somewhere between the Wall Street bailout and today’s new economy — where consumers are saving more and spending less — shoppers started turning more and more to mass merchants for…

Whether someone’s a small designer trying to make a name for themselves or a legacy retailer in the apparel business for nearly a century and a half, reaching the consumer…

Nobody likes feeling tricked, least of all consumers. Which is why government officials are making sure apparel manufacturers know that rayon, by any other name, is still rayon. Recently, Amazon,…

The Great Recession schooled most consumers in the art of the deal. Smartphone apps and coupon websites fed consumer zeal to save in-store or snag free shipping for web orders. …

Not long ago, retail was convinced that online meant the end of regular offline stores, and omni-channel retailing was not yet part of the lexicon.  But “click-and-mortar” selling is transforming…