Life at the economy’s bottom-most rung is no fun. When you go holiday shopping, please be patient and kind.

Covid-19 cases are surging, but enhanced compensation for frontline workers has all but dried up. Giants like Walmart and Amazon got the reputation bump; now they’ve moved on.

Can the retail and service workers who have kept the country running during the pandemic remake our politics?

These vulture firms helped create the conditions for economic collapse. Now they’re cleaning up.

How the Covid lockdown is reconfiguring the nexus of getting and spending

How booksellers are coping with the coronavirus crisis—and what comes next

The entrepreneurial warriors' space is so saturated that a top shill now wants to make "Veteran" a brand unto itself, with a capital "V."

With the sudden departure of yet another CEO, the bookstore chain is facing existential questions.

How Amazon’s 100 million-strong Prime membership program will transform the American economy

How private equity is gouging some of the country’s best-known corporate brands

A recent change in the way the giant e-tailer sells books has publishers scrambling.

More stores are fighting Black Friday creep, which is good news for everyone, including retail workers.

Here's how Silicon Valley plans to change their minds

Turn abandoned big-box stores into cultural institutions

The complicated history of how a cereal box closes

What JCPenney's Failed Imitation Says About Retail—and Identity