Customers are shopping at the three small retail stores we checked in with, but keeping inventory up isn’t so easy.

“You can almost smell the cards when you think about it hard enough,” said high school teacher Ken Cameron.

The ease of online shopping combined with the immediacy of pickup could save retailers on logistics and draw customers back from delivery.

Just a few years ago, the toy retailer closed its U.S. operations and laid off 30,000 workers.

Nneka Brown of Innovative Supplies Worldwide says all-digital education deprives children of the opportunity to learn key skills.

The price of many products, supplies and raw materials has been rising. Retailers must figure out when to pass those costs along to customers.

Architectural lighting designer Sylvia Olmos talks about her personal connection to the famed art supply store.

Shein, a fast-growing, China-based clothing brand, relies on a “real-time fashion” model that slashes the time from design to production.

The U.S. may need an additional 330 million square feet of distribution space by 2025 to handle the expected expansion of online sales.

For DS Smith, higher demand from individual customers wasn’t enough to offset a drop in corporate clients.