Retail

Bloomberg Toys ‘R’ Us’s fired workers last week won the right to negotiate for severance money in bankruptcy court, in an unusual victory. They may end up getting nothing. Before much money can be paid to the retailer’s 33,000 former employees, senior lenders need to collect about $1 billion. For now, the staffers can try to tap a pool of ...

Bloomberg Tesco Plc is readying a new chain of discount stores in the company’s most direct offensive on Aldi and Lidl to date. The UK’s largest retailer is recruiting for staff to work in the new store format at sites in Immingham in northeast England and in Chatteris, about 80 miles north of London, according to postings on the LinkedIn ...

Bloomberg Papa John’s International Inc.’s board approved a so-called poison-pill plan to fend off any attempt by founder John Schnatter to gain a controlling interest as the pizza chain seeks distance from its controversial namesake. Schnatter, 56, resigned as chairman earlier this month after reports surfaced that he used a racial slur and graphic depictions of violence against minorities during ...

Bloomberg Sports Direct International Plc investors have been left counting the cost of billionaire founder Mike Ashley’s wheeling and dealing. The UK sportswear retailer reported a 73 percent decline in full-year pretax profit. The drop was mainly due to a one-time charge of 85.4 million pounds ($111 million) related to its investment in struggling department store chain Debenhams Plc. Sports ...

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc.’s fourth annual Prime Day event lured shoppers from around the world, highlighting the promotion’s evolution from a rummage sale of obscure products to 36 hours of discounts on major brands such as Samsonite luggage, Callaway golf clubs and General Mills cereals. It’s a sharp contrast from the first Prime Day in 2015, when customers kvetched on social ...

Bloomberg Shake Shack Inc. is stirring up shares of SSI Group Inc. after the burger chain founded in New York selected the upscale Philippine retailer as its local partner. News that the world famous ShackBurger will be served in Manila beginning in the spring of 2019 sent shares of licensee SSI rising as much as 18 percent, the most in ...

Bloomberg Former Toys ‘R’ Us workers will be asking a judge to award them severance and grant them the same priority for getting paid as the lawyers, financial advisers and suppliers who were considered vital to winding down the retailer’s US stores. Toys ‘R’ Us Inc. agreed to give the workers until July 23 to file the request, according to ...

Bloomberg Amazon.com kicked off its big Prime Day sales promotion with technical glitches on its website and app, threatening its 36-hour sales extravaganza. Trouble on the site spiked just as the event began at 3 pm Eastern time, but declined significantly within a couple of hours, according to Downdetector.com, which monitors web trouble. Shoppers were expected to spend $3.4 billion ...

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc.’s increase earlier this year to the price of Prime membership hasn’t blunted momentum for the popular subscription program that boasts more than 100 million global members, a company executive said. “We continue to see the same trends” since the price hike — to $119 a year from $99 — was announced in April, Amazon Prime VP Cem ...

Bloomberg Fast Retailing shares climbed the most since January on signs that the retailer’s steady expansion in overseas markets, now headlined by the face of Roger Federer, is bearing fruit even in the face of risks from an escalating trade dispute. The Uniqlo operator drew on robust overseas sales and a successful early summer line to help boost third-quarter results. ...