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Beginning March 21, and lasting through March 29, Walmart is having its biggest-ever spring sales push, offering discounts of 30 to 50 percent on more than 60 outdoor essentials ranging from lawn mowers to mulch and will advertise the event …

Lowe’s reported net earnings of $306 million for the quarter ended January 31, a 6.3 percent increase over the same period a year ago. For the fiscal year also ended January 31, net earnings increased 16.7 percent to $2.3 billion. …

Home Depot reported increases in comp-store sales spurred by the recovering housing market. Comparable store sales for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013 increased 4.4 percent, and comp sales for U.S. stores were positive 4.9 percent. Total sales for the …

Canadian home improvement retailer RONA Inc. reported a decline in same-store sales and revenues in the fourth quarter 2013 and fiscal 2013 overall, a result of the “closure of the company’s underperforming stores and the difficult market conditions throughout the …

Home Depot announced today the opening of its new direct fulfillment center in Locust Grove, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta. It is the first of three new DFCs the company will open across the U.S. over the next two years, …

Amazon Inc. plans to offer brick-and-mortar retailers a checkout system that uses Kindle tablets as soon as this summer. In one scenario, the Seattle company would give merchants Kindle tablets and credit-card readers. Amazon also might offer retailers other services, …

Target reported Thursday that its stores have been hit by a major credit-card attack involving up to 40 million accounts. Chief Executive Officer Greg Steinhafel confirmed earlier reports that a brazen data breach had taken place. In a statement, Steinhafel …