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The Sobeys grocery store chain has reached a deal to buy more than 200 Safeway stores in Western Canada for $5.8 billion, Sobeys' parent company, Empire Company Limited, announced Wednesday. More...

Mark's Work Wearhouse has pulled Caterpillar-brand boots off the shelves of its London, Ont.,-area stores in support of hundreds of local Electro-Motive workers who are losing their jobs. More...

AP - The holiday shopping season got off to a strong start on Black Friday, with retail sales up 7 percent over last year, according to the most recent survey. Now stores just have to keep buyers coming back without the promise of door-buster savings. More...

Those who travel to China know that fakes—fake iPhones, fake watches, fake Louis Vuitton bags—are everywhere. But while it's easy for the average American to find counterfeit products, most of the Western world has been blissfully unaware of entire counterfeit stores—until recently, that is...

AP WASHINGTON (Dec. 6) -- The Supreme Court will consider throwing out a massive lawsuit that claims Wal-Mart pays women less than men and promotes women less frequently. The justices stepped into a case Monday that could involve 500,000 to 1.5 million women who work or once worked at the...

Winn-Dixie to pare down, closing 30 stores JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Southern U.S. grocer Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. said it would close 30 of its under-performing stores this year to adjust to a weak economic environment. The Florida company also said it would consolidate its four operating regions...

Detroit's malls suffer in recession DETROIT, (UPI) -- The city of Detroit is scarred by an all-too-common sign of the recession: once-prosperous shopping malls facing closure or bankruptcy, observers say. The lingering financial malaise has seen at least three that thrived in the city in the...