Queen Creek Marketplace has two popular retailers opening their doors today — Bed Bath & Beyond and BevMo.

While most U.S. retailers’ sales sagged in 2002, online sales soared.

NEW YORK - Is the Y chromosome evolving? Are guys really starting to care more about things like where to bargain-hunt for clothes, and what’s the best skin cream?

Mesa resident Wes Holmes said he spent about 70 percent more during the last holiday season than he did the year before. He wasn’t alone. Sales showed a respectable increase in December, new figures show.

It may be mostly East Valley people trying to escape the blistering weather outside, but Arizona Mills mall has been packed with shoppers for more than a week.

It may be mostly East Valley people trying to escape the blistering weather outside, but Arizona Mills mall has been packed with shoppers for more than a week.

The following recall has been announced because the products may be contaminated with salmonella, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections, especially in young children, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems:

When Laura and Drew Werb of Fountain Hills lost their beloved golden retriever, they were devastated.

People entered the cylindrical Plexiglas booth one by one and stood motionless and erect for 10 seconds as a tall wand circled them, emitting low-power radio waves.

Once a top performer for General Motors Corp., sales of Oldsmobiles reached more than a million cars annually in the mid 1980s.

The Walking Company, a shoe retailer with 140 mall locations nationwide, opened a store at the Chandler Fashion Center at Chandler Boulevard and Loop 101.

A 387,000 square-foot retail center described as “upscale boutique” is planned for the southeast corner of Val Vista Drive and Williams Field Road in Gilbert.

Three Verizon wireless retail stores opened in the East Valley. The stores, which offer wireless phone and data service and products, opened at the Crossroads Towne Center at 2640 E. Germann Road in Chandler, 1804 S. Signal Butte Road in Mesa and Scottsdale Fashion Square at the corner of Scottsdale Road and Goldwater Boulevard in Scottsdale.

Promenade, the 87-acre shopping center on the southeast corner of Scottsdale Road and Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard in Scottsdale, is filling up more spots in its newly completed retail section.

The fallout from the lessthan-stellar holiday retail season has begun. Besides the stores we already knew were slated to close — Casual Corner and Petite Sophisticate, Robinson’s-May stores — are those that are hurting but not yet mortally wounded.

Goodwill of Central Arizona plans to open its first retail store in Gilbert on Friday at the northwest corner of Gilbert and Guadalupe roads. The not-for-profit snagged Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Robby Hammock to welcome shoppers from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Check out Chico’s March catalog.

Just over two years ago, I began my first Retail Corridor column with the oft-cited quote by the famous Chinese Taoist philosopher, Lao-Tzu: “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

COSTA MESA, Calif. - Few people took notice when Sony Electronics Inc. opened a tiny storefront last year here at South Coast Plaza, a swanky mall south of Los Angeles.

Derek Rodner calls them "returnaholics," a breed of shoppers costing the retail industry an estimated $10 billion to $15 billion a year, according to the National Retail Federation.

WASHINGTON - Soaring gasoline costs pushed inflation at the wholesale level up sharply in December, ending a year in which wholesale inflation rose at the fastest pace since 1990.

The housing refinance boom could send shoppers pouring into stores to buy new home furnishings, making it a happy holiday season for retailers, the National Retail Federation said Friday.

There's nothing that says holiday shopping quite like long lines of grumpy customers, out-of-stock items, ransacked departments, and overheated and crowded stores. Yet those are just some of the issues holiday retail employees deal with every time they hit the selling floor.

There’s nothing that says holiday shopping quite like long lines of grumpy customers, out-of-stock items, ransacked departments, and overheated and crowded stores. Yet those are just some of the issues holiday retail employees deal with every time they hit the selling floor.