Decades after closing down hundreds of stores, online posts have again suggested a potential return for Ames Department Stores, despite previous speculation that failed to materialize. A message on a website and social media accounts purporting to belong ...

Macy’s announcement Tuesday that it will close 150 stores, or nearly a third of its total, is the result of a once-great department store industry in decades of decline. The gradual demise of the American department store can be blamed on many factors ...

Protesters bearing "Shame on Shein" placards gathered outside a Paris department store on Wednesday, hours before the opening of the online fast-fashion retailer's first ever permanent shop amid fierce criticism of its low-cost business model.

Upscale department store chain Nordstrom didn’t wait until after the holiday season to close a couple of its stores, as it shut down its Santa Monica, Calif., store at the Third Street Promenade shopping district on Aug. 26 and its St. Louis store in the Galleria Mall on Aug. 24, 2025.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Kohl’s, the nationwide department store, announced on Thursday that the doors to 27 underperforming stores will be closed for good by April. The closures were made public in an online notice issued by Kohl’s, which also provided ...

Big department-store chains from JCPenney to Macy’s are unloading their properties as fast as they can. Dillard’s is buying real estate. The department-store chain this month purchased the Longview Mall in Texas, about two hours east of Dallas.