Articles by Retail Therapy

Retail Therapy

Initially thought I was watching a skit on Saturday Night Live when I first heard the reports that America’s department stores emerged from the second most active selling season of the year, Easter week, with the some of the best numbers in nearly a decade: Bloomingdale’s upped their dividend payment and those made by Marshall Fields actually doubled. With gas and grocery pricing gobbling up a large part of discretionary income, how could these large brick and mortar dinosaurs be making bank when the rest of us are battling to sell $5.95 trials?