Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 2/26/13: Home Depot’s net jumps 32%; Walmart widens price gap

  “Home Depot’s 4th-Quarter Net Jumps 32% on Extra Week’s Results” by Dow Jones Business News via Nasdaq.com. “Home Depot Inc.’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings jumped 32% as the home-improvement-products retailer was helped by a comparison with a year-ago quarter that included one fewer week, pushing results above Street estimates…”We ended the year with a strong […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 2/25/13: Google Glass could be a game-changer; Lowe’s earnings top est.

  “Why Brands Are Already Looking at Google Glass, and Why Apple Should Be Worried —  Experts say product could kill smartphones, alter marketing landscape for years to come” by Christopher Heine & Sam Thielman at AdWeek (Text & “How if Feels” Video).  “Will Google Glass kill the smartphone? Reinvent gaming? Steal the second screen […]

Eye-on-Retail 2/22/13: Walmart’s “silent killer”; Walgreens University

  “The ‘Silent Killer’ In Wal-Mart’s Business” by Ashley Lutz at Business Insider.  “There’s a “silent killer” that became evident in Wal-Mart’s earnings announcement today.  “The results announced today are flat-out bad, and its time for shareholders to take management to task for this,” said Brian Sozzi, chief equities analyst at NBG Research.  The biggest […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 2/21/13: Walmart’s earnings top estimates; Home Depot’s Ann-Marie Campbell

  “Wal-Mart Tops Estimates, but Guidance Is Weak” at CNBC. “Wal-Mart Stores reported quarterly earnings Thursday that topped analysts’ expectations, but its guidance for the first quarter was short of consensus estimates. After the earnings announcement, the company’s shares rose slightly in pre-market trading. The company posted fourth-quarter earnings excluding items of 1.67 per share, […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 2/20/13: Amazon should buy RadioShack; Target ready for Canada

  “Amazon should just buy RadioShack” by Gina Chon at Quartz.  “The scenario of Amazon acquiring an ailing brick-and-mortar retailer like RadioShack, Sears or Best Buy (the latter two of which have market caps in the $5 billion range), has been talked about in the tech and dealmaker community. Such a move could give Amazon […]

Eye-on-Retail Tipsheet 2/19/13: Google retail stores; Walmart’s healthy checkout aisles

  “Google Works on Launching Retail Stores” at Fox Business.  “Google Inc. has been developing plans to launch retail stores in the U.S., said people familiar with the matter, in another sign the company is studying Apple Inc.’s playbook for building a consumer-electronics brand…Such a move may represent a change of heart in the two […]