Retail

Catalog retailer will eliminate shipping charges, not just during the holidays. Other stores consider adding free shipping to stay competitive with e-retailers.

Best Buy hopes to win back market share from Wal-Mart and online retailers by redesigning stores and changing the customer service experience.

As many states face dwindling revenue, New Hampshire is the latest to lure out-of-state smokers with lower cigarette taxes — a move that could fill budget holes.

The BBC's Chris Hogg explains the global economic implications of the disaster in Japan.

New laws seeks to raise revenue from e-commerce by requiring Illinois-based affiliates of online retailers like Amazon.com to collect sales tax.

Ivory Coast's incumbent leader Laurent Gdagbo has effectively nationalized the country's cocoa farms — something chocolate lovers should be worried about.

The iconic weekly magazine is now in the hands of a "new media" company. Rick Edmonds, media business analyst at the Poynter Institute, explains what today's relaunch says about the magazine industry.

LVMH owns luxury brands from Louis Vuitton to Moet champagne and it now plans to sell watches. It will acquire a major piece of Italian jeweler Bulgari for $5.2 billion. Stephen Beard explains.

Betting on American consumers and rebounding property prices, private equity investor Blackstone Group is to buy nearly 600 shopping centers.