Retail

A clogged global supply chain and labor shortage are straining retailers as they prepare for the holiday shopping season, while consumer demand is expected to rebound this year.

The coronavirus pandemic has changed how most retail businesses in the St. Louis region operate. Businesses face limits on how many people can be inside their buildings. And stores across the region are adapting to mask mandates, social distancing measures and sanitizing routines.

Updated at 5:35 p.m. with information on additional businessesCustomers lined up Monday morning outside a dozen MERS Goodwill locations in St. Louis and…

In August 2018, the Quincy Mall was in crisis. A few years earlier, JCPenney, one of the mall’s three large department store anchors, had closed. That…

Missourians shopping for back-to-school supplies can take advantage of the state’s tax-free weekend this Friday through Sunday.The tax holiday applies to…

Santa Claus. That’s the first thing Carol Feldman thinks of when she recalls her childhood memories of the mall known then as Crestwood Plaza off Watson…

A shuttered St. Louis County mall has a new owner. The defunct Crestwood Court sold for $3.65 million on Auctions.com on Thursday afternoon. It came to…

Some retailers in Illinois are lobbying for E-fairness nationally; a move to require online vendors to charge sales tax just like brick-and-mortar…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 24, 2010 - Holiday shopping NOW. No waiting.That's been the message for weeks, as the nation's…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: November 18, 2008 - Oh, the shopping season looks frightful -- whether you're a consumer, fretting…