NEW YORK – When it came to buying their children new jeans and trendy tops, parents held the line: They focused on basics at discounters and waited for the best deals, resulting in weak August sales at many stores. That's a bad sign for the holiday sea

Sam's Club is limiting the amount of certain kinds of rice customers can buy, but its sibling Wal-Mart Supercenter is not. You can also buy plenty of rice without limit from H-E-B and Kroger. What gives?

Centro Properties Group, an Australian shopping mall operator struggling through the global credit crunch, said Monday a potential buyer of its U.S. assets had canceled the deal.

Oct. 2 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. retailers' sales in November and December will be the worst in at least three decades, according to Britt Beemer , whose forecasts for Christmas spending were correct in 16 of the last 17 years.

CENTRO Properties Group may receive as little as $US250 million ($255 million) from the proceeds of yesterday's $US714 million US shopping centre fire sale to an unnamed US pension fund.