Target, the second largest U.S. discount retailer, blamed cold weather for weaker than expected figures.
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To combat falling sales, discount retailer K-Mart is attempting a bold tactic: be cool.
Same-store sales increased by only 1.8% at the discount retailer, under the estimate for 3.5%.
Deep discount retailer Dollar General (DG) posted a gain in fiscal third quarter earnings today.
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The discount retailer is expected to match last year's profits of 86 cents a share.
Pershing Square Capital Management, Ackman's hedge fund, owns a 7.8% stake in the discount retailer.
Discount retailer Matalan also reported a surge in pre-Christmas sales, which were up 42.9% on the year.
Discount retailer Poundland hopes to create up to 650 jobs with a new distribution centre in Harlow.
Klatten is the fourth-richest person in Germany behind a couple of supermarket heirs and discount retailer Dieter Schwarz.
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Shares in discount retailer Target climbed nearly 6% Friday, just days after an analyst downgrade of the retailer.
On Nov. 28, the discount retailer reported third-quarter results that were roughly in line with the Street's call.
In corporate news this week, deep discount retailer Dollar General (DG) posted a gain in fiscal third quarter earnings today.
On the earnings front, discount retailer Dollar Tree (DLTR) beat earnings expectations with a 16 percent increase in its fourth quarter.
Kmart, which knows a good thing when it sees one, signed Vergara to create a clothing line for the discount retailer.
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Other targets included retail giant Amazon.com, electronic auction house eBay, discount retailer Buy.com and CNN Interactive, all hit Tuesday, and the portal Yahoo!
He took over as chief executive of Kmart Holding when the discount retailer was in bankruptcy court in 2003 and presided over a stunning reemergence.
Costco, the discount retailer, saw sales gain but missed on earnings.
But the index also includes some notable foreign companies providing similar services such as Vipshop Holdings an online discount retailer for various brands in China.
Took over his family's discount retailer, Grupo Elektra, in 1987.
The fashion house partnered with Target in 2011 to produce a more budget-friendly collection for the discount retailer, which caused Target's website to crash due to the high demand.
Meanwhile federal judges from the Central District of California have stymied two separate condemnations designed to benefit discount retailer Costco (nasdaq: COST - news - people ).
Citi analyst Deborah Weinswig cut her rating on the stock to Neutral from Buy, saying that Target, the second largest discount retailer, will struggle to attract middle-income consumers to its stores.
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The discount retailer's fiscal third-quarter earnings rose 34% as same-store sales continued to rise on improved traffic and a larger transaction size and as sales of seasonal and consumable items increased.
The campaign, the company's first purely image-based ad push in several years, features national television spots and a website in which customers, store employees and truckers share their warm feelings for the discount retailer.
Bankrupt discount retailer Kmart Corp. said on Sunday it named President Julian Day to the additional post of chief executive officer and the company plans to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection around April 30.
For example, an employee's spouse worked at a major discount retailer and was able to take advantage of the employee discount program, allowing the company to purchase such things as supplies for less money than usual.
This week alone saw a bankruptcy filing from a New York-based toy retailer, FAO Schwarz, more store closures and 37, 000 job losses at a bankrupt discount retailer, Kmart, and poor same-store sales growth from Sainsbury's itself.
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Shares in discount retailer Dollar General gained Monday after the company reported higher-than-expected third quarter profit and raised its guidance for the full year, saying that more shoppers turned up and spent more in the third quarter.
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The price that the buyers have offered for the discount retailer, which competes with other club-membership stores like Costco as well as big-box stores like Wal-Mart to bring in loyal customers with lower passed-through product costs, is fair, say some analysts.
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Last month, discount shoe retailer DSW, a division of Retail Ventures (nyse: RVI - news - people ), said that electronic records of more than 100, 000 customers had been stolen.
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