Gap Inc. said Old Navy and the rest of the Gap brands have been attracting different customers and require different strategies. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
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Store, warehouse and delivery workers: NPR wants to hear from you. NPR hide caption
Thursday
Brookstone's airport stores, like this one located in Miami International Airport, will remain open. Jeff Greenberg/UIG via Getty Images hide caption
Tuesday
Toys R Us announced last month that it would close its stores in the United Kingdom, like this one in London, and across the U.S. Jack Taylor/Getty Images hide caption
Maker Of Bratz And Little Tikes Seeks To Save Toys R Us
Monday
Best Buy and other retailers use a third-party organization, The Retail Equation, to determine whether a consumer should be authorized to make returns. Chris Carlson/AP hide caption
Sunday
Heidi Hartmann, the president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, says women in retail lost hundreds of thousands of jobs over the last year, and men gained more than 100,000 jobs. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption
Analysis Shows Women Lost Jobs In Retail Last Year, Though Men Gained
Friday
Shoppers fill a Walmart on Thanksgiving day in Bentonville, Ark. Sales in November were up from last year. Gunnar Rathbun/AP hide caption
Thursday
A bankruptcy court judge approved a plan for Toys R Us to pay its top executives millions in bonuses, even as the company struggles to stay afloat. Eric Gay/AP hide caption
Thursday
Customers flood Walmart's Bentonville, Ark., store on Thanksgiving Day in 2016. Gunnar Rathbun/AP Images for Walmart hide caption
'Just Time Together': For Some Workers, A Thanksgiving Off Is A Rare Treat
Wednesday
Retail food prices have just been through the longest period of deflation in about 60 years. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
Saturday
Alfred Angelo filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy after closing dozens of its stores, leaving brides and bridesmaids struggling to get dresses they've paid for. Bebeto Matthews/AP hide caption
Wednesday
A prototype Moby Mart is being tested in Shanghai. Per Cromwell, the project's lead designer, says four to six additional mobile supermarkets are planned in the coming year. Moby Mart hide caption
Tuesday
Retraining generally isn't a top priority in the retail sector, analysts say. But Wal-Mart trains about a quarter-million of its employees a year in more advanced skills. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
As Store Layoffs Mount, Retail Lags Other Sectors In Retraining Workers
Tuesday
Carla and Jeremy Lang push their twin 18-month-old sons in a stroller while looking at ovens and stoves at a Sears northwest of Chicago. Cheryl Corley/NPR hide caption
Its Survival In Doubt, Sears Struggles To Transform Once Again
Wednesday
Sears, once the monolith of American retail, says that there is "substantial doubt" that it will be able to keep its doors open. Company shares tumbled more than 12 percent Wednesday. Above, the department store's location in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood today. Bebeto Matthews/AP hide caption