All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Retail

No longer the biggest and most profitable shopping day of the year Black Friday and the subsequent weekend has become something like a table stakes poker where retailers bet real profits for prospective ones.  Like last year, retailers will probably lose.  Here's why. 

Black Friday's sales growth was probably the result of moving December sales into November because of deep discounting.  If true, 4th quarter sales and profits are still in jeopardy.  Here's why. 

Jewelry retailers and luxury retail sales, already under pressure from a slowing economy, may deteriorate even more as customers snap up deeply discounted high tech products.  Here's why'  

1.Despite the quick turnaround in announcing the less severe than expected financial impact that the vendor allocation timing issues have had over the past 4 quarters, uncertainty still abounds regarding the Leadership, business model and ultimate turnaround strategy for Office Depot. 2.Within the text...

as the retail industry booms certain retailers need to remember and keep in tact that people shop at walmart and other lower end retail stores for the lower prices.compared to bigger high end stores such as dillards and pennys.walmart and other retail stores attract people that are living on a budget...

Soaring gas prices and other external factors may have a bigger influence on retail sales this year than business tactics.  Here's why

1. Zale Ist Q down to 7% from last year. 2. Zale Shares are also going down. 3. Company has Sell Bailey Banks and Biddle Chains. 4. Zale is looking on Situation to Come through it.

Wal-Mart is opening state-of-the-art retail centers incorporating upgraded merchandizing, improved product offerings, energy efficiency, and environment. The improvements in these new stores are long overdo and will make Wal-Mart a welcome retail center of many communities.

Activists investors like Breeden Capital, Citadel Investment Group, and SAC Capital Management thought Zale's stock was undervalued.  Now they may realize they have bigger troubles than they expected.  Here's why.

The company has been installing 37-inch flat-screen televisions to show original programming, advertisements, news and weather in 60 of their stores already.