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Target on Wednesday became the latest retailer to lower its financial forecast for the year. It downplayed its plans for tariff-related price hikes.

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  • Business

Can retailers eat tariffs without price hikes? Walmart, Target, Lowe's face pressure

Major chains are fighting two battles at once: a financial battle to keep costs low in the face of new tariffs, and a political one to avoid the president's wrath.

May 21, 2025
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  • Alina Selyukh
Refrigerators are on display at a Home Depot store in Orlando, Fla.

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  • Business

Home Depot doesn't plan to raise prices due to tariffs. But some items may disappear

The home improvement chain broke from many other retailers, who say they cannot afford to absorb new tariffs. President Trump recently attacked Walmart for warning of price hikes.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
People walk by a Foot Locker store in Chicago.

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  • Business

Dick's Sporting Goods is buying Foot Locker for $2.4 billion

Together, the two retailers will have to wade the choppy waters of new tariffs on imports, including footwear. And they'll face the growing competition from shoe brands selling directly to shoppers.

May 15, 2025
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
Thrift stores, like this one in Charlotte, N.C., could see an uptick in sales amid economic woes. But experts say supply could also become an issue.

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  • Business

Will tariffs drive more people to shop secondhand? It's a mixed bag, experts say

This moment of economic uncertainty could drive more Americans to buy used. But experts say secondhand stores won't be immune from tariffs either.

April 11, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
President Donald Trump's new trade levies include a broadside against e-commerce.  His executive order extinguishes a tariff exemption for packages from China and Hong Kong worth less than $800.

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  • Business

Trump closes loophole used by American shoppers to buy Chinese goods tariff-free

The so-called de minimis exemption allowed Chinese and Hong Kong retailers to ship millions of packages worth $800 or less directly to U.S. consumers. That loophole will close May 2.

April 06, 2025
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  • Brian Mann
People walk through the Westfield World Trade Center shopping mall in New York City.

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  • Business

How are inflation or tariffs affecting your shopping and budget? NPR wants to know

Whether you're a shopper or a seller, a worker or a business owner, you likely have a lot on your mind when it comes to budgeting, planning trips or big purchases. And we want to hear all about it.

March 24, 2025
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  • Alina Selyukh
People walk in front of a Forever 21 clothing store in New York.

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  • Business

Forever 21 is bankrupt, again. This time actually could be forever

Once a formidable fast-fashion mall staple, Forever 21 has filed for bankruptcy. The retailer has been a shell of its former self since it first filed for bankruptcy in 2019.

March 18, 2025
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  • Alina Selyukh
Hudson's Bay has entered creditor protection, struggling with debt.

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  • Business

Canada's Hudson's Bay has survived 355 years. Now the store is in crisis

The department store chain, founded in 1670, can't pay its debts and says the pandemic, inflation and now trade tensions have hurt its financial future.

March 10, 2025
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  • Alina Selyukh
NPR has long tracked prices at a Walmart near Savannah, Ga., and this time, we shopped for things that got cheaper — in all, about a fifth of the 96 items on our shopping list.

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  • Business

Has anything gotten cheaper? We shopped at Walmart to find the answer

Some things have gotten cheaper, even in an era of high prices. What are those things? We've been tracking them at a Walmart in Georgia.

January 28, 2025
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  • Alina Selyukh
NPR has tracked the prices of dozens of items at one Walmart in Georgia over multiple years.

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  • Business

NPR shopped for 96 items at Walmart to track how prices are really changing

NPR has tracked the prices of dozens of items at the same superstore in Georgia, including eggs, T-shirts, snacks and paper towels. Here's what got cheaper over the past year, and more expensive.

January 15, 2025
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh and
  • Juweek Adolphe
In this 2009 file photo, a FedEx driver delivers a package in the Queens section of New York.

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  • Business

'Tis the season for porch pirates. Here are some tips to help protect your items

Retailers are warning Americans to be vigilant about their packages and not let porch pirates steal the holiday spirit,

December 03, 2024
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  • Chandelis Duster
Mall of America's amusement park is one of the ways the shopping center lures tourists and locals to make a day of their visit.

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  • Business

Come for the roller coaster, stay for the shops: Can malls be fun again?

Mall of America's recipe for success includes an amusement park, pop-up stores, weddings and raves. Can local malls take a page from the country's largest shopping center?

November 28, 2024
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
Cars sit parked in front of a Macy's store at Bay Fair Mall on Feb. 27, 2024 in San Leandro, California.

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  • National

Macy's says an employee hid as much as $154 million in expenses

The employee "intentionally made erroneous accounting accrual entries" to hide millions of dollars, Macy's said. The error forced the company to delay reporting its third quarter results.

November 25, 2024
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  • Chandelis Duster
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  • Business

Luxury department store Saks buys Neiman Marcus, and Amazon gets a stake

The two high-end department stores hope together they would wield more power to counter luxury brands, which increasingly flex their muscles over retailers.

July 04, 2024
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  • Alina Selyukh
An employee arranges a digital price tag for vegetables at the Whole Foods store in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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  • Business

A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels

With electronic shelf labels, prices can change up to six times a minute. Grocers including Walmart, Whole Foods and Schnucks are adopting them.


June 19, 2024
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  • Lola Murti
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