Seattle Times seeks workplace issues/retail reporter
The Seattle Times is hiring a reporter to cover workplace issues and the retail sector. The changing nature of work – the gig economy, the threat and promise of automation, the economics and politics of minimum wage and other work conditions, the growing earnings gap between young software engineers and others – these shifts are […]
Coverage: Target to raise minimum wage for workers
Target Corp. said Monday it will start raising its minimum wage next month from $10 an hour and will eventually reach $11 for all its U.S. stores. Lauren Thomas of CNBC.com had the news: The pay raise will outpace Wal-Mart’s recent increase in its minimum wage. The two retailers have been engaged in a quiet wage war for […]
Florida retail reporter moving to health and medicine beat
Justine Griffin, the retail reporter at the Tampa Bay Times for the past two years, is moving to the health and medicine beat for the paper. Griffin has been on the retail beat for slightly more than two years. Breaking news! I’m now covering health & medicine for the @TB_Times. Got a story tip? Email […]
CNBC hires Hirsch of Reuters to cover retail/consumer news
Lauren Hirsch has been hired by CNBC Digital to cover retail and consumer news. Also, I’m excited to announce I now work @cnbc covering consumer/retail — Lauren Hirsch (@LaurenSHirsch) September 6, 2017 For the last two years, Hirsch has been at Reuters covering initial public offerings and consumer/retail mergers and acquisitions based in New York. Since April […]
Coverage: Amazon to lower Whole Foods prices beginning Monday
Amazon.com Inc. said it will cut prices on a range of popular goods as it completes its acquisition of Whole Foods Market Inc., sending shares of rival grocers tumbling on fears that brutal market share battles will intensify. David Shepardson and Lisa Baertlein of Reuters had the news: Amazon’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods, which will be […]
Coverage: Wal-Mart and Google team up to take on Amazon
Google will start offering Walmart products to people who shop on Google Express, the company’s online shopping mall, the first time the world’s biggest retailer has made its products available online in the United States outside of its own website. Daisuke Wakabayashi and Michael Corkery of The New York Times had the news: The partnership, announced on Wednesday, is […]
Coverage: Online shopping pays off for Target
Target Corp. reported earnings, revenue and same-stores sales on Wednesday that topped analysts’ expectations for the second quarter, fueled by a jump in online transactions, which sent its stock price soaring. Lauren Thomas of CNBC.com had the news: With more shoppers returning to its brick-and-mortar stores and ringing up purchases on Target.com, the discount retailer raised its […]
Coverage: Sears to sell Kenmore appliances on Amazon
Struggling retailer Sears has negotiated a deal to sell its Kenmore appliances on Amazon.com, sending its faltering stock price up by as much as 19 percent on Thursday. Alexa D’Angelo of the Los Angeles Times had the news: But as a deal announced Thursday between Amazon and Sears illustrates, times have changed. In an attempt to […]
Coverage: Hobby Lobby to return ancient artifacts, pay fine
Retailer Hobby Lobby agreed to forfeit thousands of artifacts from modern-day Iraq and pay a $3 million fine to resolve a civil action the Justice Department brought against the company. Chris Boyette of CNN had the news: The DOJ said the company received the falsely labeled artifacts from a United Arab Emirates-based supplier. The artifacts, ancient […]
Coverage: Target is rolling out some new brands
Retailer Target Corp. is introducing some new brands to shoppers this fall as it focuses on home furnishings and apparel. Lauren Thomas of CNBC.com had the news: Earlier this year, Target had already made it clear that it planned to roll out 12 additional, private-label brands in the coming months. The first, Cloud Island, launched in […]
