Amazon began as an online book store. It expanded...  ...ocations. These same things happened with another retailer that started out over 100 years ago: Sears, Roebu...  ...ears was not the country’s first mail-order retailer , but it became the largest of its kind. Like Amaz...  ...many of its diehard cus...

Retail companies (if not their employees) are looking fo...

(Photo: Simbe Robotics)One of the most common task...  ...: Simbe Robotics)One of the most common tasks for retail workers is to look at the shelves, see which item...

Redditor FredFltStn operates a seasonal fireworks tent. He occasionally posts stories about customers: some are touching, some are funny, and some make you despair for the future of mankind. Here's a good one:We offer an...

If you've ever worked in retail , then you know just how terrible some customers a...  ...e's now a great Reddit thread filled with venting retail workers, some of whom have the worst stories I've...

If you went to the Black Friday sales last night (...  ...g, depending on the store) you may be sick of the retail experience right now, but you can sit down, relax...

(YouTube Link) Apparently the managers of FuncoLand, the equivalent of Gamestop in the 1990s, are crazy creeps from another dimension that delight in torturing new employees while acting like trailer park royalty. This...

Attention sheeple ... er, shoppers! You may not know it, but if you've ever entered a Whole Foods Market, you've actually been "primed" to shop. Martin Lindstrom, author of Brandwashe...

(YouTube link) Woot, the discount website that sells one item a day, has been bought by Amazon, which they are quite happy about. In addition to the above video posted at their blog, CEO Matt Rutledge wrote the most awe...

Eddie Feibusch sells zippers at his New York store...  ...really has great products,” Mr. Zacker said. Retail , they go from 50 cents for a nylon dress zipper t...