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It's a good thing Nordstrom avoided a debt-burdened move to go private. But that doesn't end its challenges in a battered retail sector.
The retail sector has been shaken by a sharp rise in debt defaults, which made financing extremely costly for the buyout effort explored by the...
A coalition of community groups sent an open letter to Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos on Tuesday asking the company to forgo tax breaks and...
Nordstrom family members have suspended their effort to put together a buyout offer for the Seattle-based retailer, citing “the difficulty of obtaining debt financing in...
Amid slowing demand in the U.S., the Beaverton, Oregon-based company announced a 48-hour sale of as much as 40 percent on more than 200 items...
The store in Bellevue Square is closing just a year after it opened.
The retail giant plans to hire roughly the same number of temporary warehouse employees for the holiday rush as last year. That’s a sign of...
Wal-Mart overhauled its campus recruiting program this year to lure more applicants from top-flight colleges — a bid to change its corporate culture as it tries...
A revived deal to combine the two wireless carriers would be scrutinized by many of the same officials who batted down a T-Mobile-Sprint merger in...
