The Week: The smartphone has become the bane of the retail industry, as savvy customers use physical stores to comparison-shop before going online on→

Does anyone know what company this is? via Bits and Pieces.

PeachMac’s founders, Darryl and Anne Lyndon Peck, have been in the Apple/Macintosh market for over 20 years. In 2007, they decided to make time→

CNN Money: Since founding Quacker Gift Shop in 2005, Jennifer Brown and Steve Kudron get this question a lot: Is there money in selling→

Inc.com. Most street fairs and markets have a very low barrier to entry: You’ll need transit, a table, a tent (for outdoor markets), a→

If I was the beautiful child of a famous fashion designer, I’d imagine that I’d go into some kind of fashion related business. Not→

BoingBoing: A specialty food store in Brisbane, Australia posted this sign, demanding a $5 deposit from people who enter the shop, refundable with your→

Wired UK: Tatsuya Abe is Japan’s crab-meat king. Seven years ago, he cofounded the Yamato seafood company in Shiogama, Miyagi province, to offer the→

If your storefront looked like this, how would you make it stand out from every other locksmith in the neighborhood? If you were this→

Every small business owner can attest that location plays a big part in success. In this economy, an off-the-beaten-path location could make a bad→

The NY Times up a really long, and very interesting article about dollar stores. The long quote below deals with operations, but the article→

MyFoxTampaBay: Steve Pitts is stepping up, working hand-in-hand with local golf course owners to save their game. His new business model is shaping the→

Wall Street Journal: Sobered by store closings and the rise of online shopping, owners of U.S. shopping centers are filling space and drawing visitors→

BusinessNews Daily: With increasing numbers of consumers using mobile devices to make their holiday purchases, smartphones and tablet computers may be elbowing aside elves→

The Globe and Mail: When the New South China Mall opened to great fanfare in 2006, it immediately became the world’s largest shopping centre→

Inc.: So, Halloween is right around the corner, and you want some glow-in the-dark vampire fangs or a green bug-eyed-alien mask. If you live→

An IKEA store in Australia has taken the created a “playground” for bored men, complete with Xbox consoles, pinball machines, continuous televised sport and→

Kitsy Lane is the first and only social commerce platform that enables anyone to open their own fashion boutique—from college students and stay-at-home moms,→

WSJ: The fast-moving Internet pricing games used by airlines and hotels are now moving deeper into the most mundane nooks of the consumer economy.→

The Week: Walmart is test-driving a system that could dramatically change the way Americans shop. The program, called Scan & Go, lets customers scan→