The startup, run by entrepreneur Marc Lore, hopes to become a major player in e-commerce, but it will have to contend with Amazon for customers' attention. Ben Fox Rubin was a senior reporter for CNET ...

Only a few years after acquiring the company, Walmart has quietly announced plans to shut down the online retailer Jet.com. The revelation was nestled within Walmart's newly published quarterly ...

The first thing you notice on entering Story, a retail concept store in Manhattan’s trendy Chelsea arts district, is that it’s full of fake grass. The stuff even accents the plywood tables, which are ...

Walmart will slow store openings in order to focus more heavily on online sales, the company revealed during its annual investors meeting last week. The retailer will also continue its focus on ...

When Jet.com CEO Marc Lore revealed last month that his startup had purchased Hayneedle, an online furniture retailer, the serial entrepreneur called the move "opportunistic." At the time however, he ...