Stores

If the holiday shopping season is a retailer’s final exam each year, back-to-school is the midterms. For Target, this year’s test is a big one.Success depends on getting the basics right: exciting merchandise, fully stocked stores, and competitive pricing. Those are all areas where Target has stumbled in recent years.This…

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is rolling out his city-run grocery stores — and New York City has a lot to learn from metros that have done the same thing.The five NYC stores, which the city says will open by 2029, plan to offer shoppers a 30% discount on core goods like…

Venture capitalist David Friedberg says critics shouldn’t write off New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city-run grocery stores.”Everyone’s got it a little bit wrong in assuming that this thing is going to radically fail,” Friedberg said during a recent episode of “The All-In” Podcast, which he cohosts.Friedberg said, “It’s a sad…

“Kids and grown-ups love it so,” the ad jingle goes.Now, the German sweets brand Haribo is betting Americans love it enough to make a trip to its first-ever dedicated US stores.Opening next month in Central Valley, New York, and Wrentham, Massachusetts, each store is designed to be part marketing machine…