As part of its February Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, Tops Markets LLC will close 10 stores by the end of November. Earlier this summer, the company won approval from the court to close an unspecified number of stores that it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

This month’s exclusive digs deeper into the data found in Chain Store Guide’s 2018 Directory of Drug Stores & HBC Chains. In the visualization below, we’ve charted the top US discount chains by pharmacy sales. This year’s edition of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

After 87 years, Orchard Supply Hardware will soon close its doors for the last time. That was the announcement made by during Lowe’s Q2 earnings call last week. Established in 1931 as a San Jose farmer’s co-op during the Great […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

MOD and Blaze built their burgeoning fast-casual pizza empires via hundreds of new-store openings over the last four years. Upstart Oath Pizza, the three-year-old concept that positions its offerings as “certified humane” and “ethically-sourced” is taking a slightly different approach […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Less than two weeks after announcing that its ecommerce sales grew by 40% in the second quarter, on Monday, Walmart made a move to stoke the digital fire when it introduced a Moosejaw storefront on Walmart.com. As Walmart increasingly finds […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…