Alec Matthew Klein

U.S. retailers sent conflicting signals in September; yesterday they reported modest monthly sales gains and losses that analysts said could spell another tepid Christmas season. "It's a mixed bag," said...

Good. Bad. Or middling. Those are the ideas on how sales will shake out during the back-to-school selling season, perhaps the most important time for retailers other than Christmas --...

Giant Food Inc. posted another strong quarter yesterday, with its net income soaring 30.4 percent even as sales growth slowed. Surpassing analysts' estimates, the chain of 166 supermarkets reported earning...

The merchant moves from one task to another like a shark that can survive only in perpetual motion. No lunch buy merchandise track inventory ignore fatigue. Go, go, go. But...

The day begins to unfold at 8: 22 a.m. with the lazy hum of engines warming, the sun awakening behind a stitch of clouds. Along the waterfront in Fells Point,...

The tailspin at Hechinger Co. halted yesterday as the home-improvement retailer reported its first rise in quarterly profits since John W. Hechinger Sr. relinquished day-to-day responsibilities and passed the torch...

The last visible icon of the Merry-Go-Round empire -- the defunct retailer's sprawling million-square-foot headquarters in Joppa -- was sold yesterday for $19 million in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Baltimore....

Calling it "nothing but old-fashioned loan sharking," the state accused B&S; Marketing Enterprises Inc. and its owners of violating state consumer protection and consumer credit laws by charging interest rates...

Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. took full responsibility yesterday for two fire safety violations at its Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant, agreeing to pay a $50,000 fine imposed by the...