Wednesday’s Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet: Lowe’s Comps Up 9.6% | Whole Foods New Name | Orchard CEO Out

  “Lowe’s Comp Sales Climb 9.6%” at Seeking Alpha.  ” Lowes today reported net earnings of $941 million for the quarter ended August 2, 2013, a 26.0 percent increase over the same period a year ago…Sales for the quarter increased 10.3 percent to $15.7 billion from $14.2 billion in the second quarter of 2012, and comparable […]

Tuesday’s Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet: H.Depot’s US Comp Jumps 11.4% | JCP Collapse -11.9% | Amazon Site Down

  “Home Depot US Same-Store Sales Jump 11.4% in Q2”   “The Home Depot today reported sales of $22.5 billion for the second quarter of fiscal 2013. On a like for like basis, comparable store sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2013 were positive 10.7 percent, and comp sales for U.S. stores were positive […]

Monday’s Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet: Trader Joe’s Sues Pirate | Target Canada’s Poor Grade | Tesco’s Tablet

  The Week Ahead:  Retailers set to Release Earnings: Tue:  Home Depot, Best Buy Wed: Lowe’s, Target Thur: Sears Read more   “Trader Joe’s Sues Man for Reselling Products in Canada” by Patricia Yollin at San Fran Chronicle.  “Michael Hallatt has spent more than $350,000 at Trader Joe’s in less than two years. But the […]

Friday’s Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet: AmazonFresh a Trojan Horse | Walmart’s DC Lockers | The Uneven Recovery

  “AmazonFresh is Jeff Bezos’ Last Mile Quest for Total Retail Domination” by J.J. McCorvey at Fast Company.  “By expanding grocery delivery, Amazon hopes to transform monthly customers to weekly–or even thrice-weekly–customers. And that, in turn, will produce the kind of order volume that makes same-day delivery worth investing in. “Think of the synergy between […]

Thursday’s Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet: Wmart Comp Sls Slip .3% | Lowe’s Execs Jet to Aust. | See Wmart Campus Store #3

  “Wal-Mart U.S. same-store sales slip 0.3 percent” at Reuters.  “Wal-Mart Stores Inc posted disappointing quarterly U.S. sales on Thursday as shoppers pinched by higher payroll taxes and gas prices made fewer trips to its stores.  Same-store sales at Walmart U.S, the company’s biggest unit, fell 0.3 percent. Wall Street analysts were expecting a 1 […]

Wednesday’s Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet: Amazon Groc. Delivery in NYC? | Walgreens & Brow Waxing | Aldi vs. Walmart

  “Walgreens & drugstores expand into brow waxing, beer on tap” by Tom Murphy at AP via Seattle Times.  “At some Walgreen stores, there are health clinics staffed by nurse practitioners, cafes that sell barista-prepared coffee and Eyebrow Bars where professionals groom unruly facial hair.  Oh, and pharmacists fill prescriptions, too.  The nation’s major drugstore […]