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Ace Hardware is making efforts to reduce its carbon footprint in how it operates its logistics and supply chain systems, including at existing and new facilities throughout its Retail Support Network across the U.S. Two new Retail Support Centers are …

In its latest report, the American Affluence Research Center finds the country’s richest are looking forward to major home improvements, with the accompanying large furniture and durable good purchases that go with them in the months ahead, according to a …

Retail sales just notched their best month since 2012, according to the National Retail Federation, and the industry has added almost one million jobs since 2010. But those positive stats obscure a more complex and potentially troubling story in retail—particularly …

While Home Depot’s growth strategy is focused on e-commerce, the retailer is also looking to tap into the expected boom in drilling activity in states such as Louisiana, North Dakota and Texas, according to an article in The Wall Street …

For decades, Home Depot excelled at the traditional retail model of growing by adding new locations. But the home improvement chain is making a hard turn toward the Internet in the face of changing shopper habits and fast diminishing returns …

According to a Reuters story, Lowe’s has agreed to pay a $500,000 penalty for violating rules governing lead paint exposure, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice said. The company also agreed to implement a new compliance …

March retail sales, which exclude automobiles, gas stations and restaurants, increased 0.8 percent adjusted month-to-month, according to the National Retail Federation. It was also a positive month for the home improvement sector: building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers …

Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes rose one point to 47 in April from a downwardly revised March reading of 46 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). “Job growth is …