Latest Retail Headlines
All the headlines from our Retail Topic Page, ordered by recency.
MetLife Says Former Wal-Mart Exec Leaves Board
Apr 25 2012 // The former head of Wal-Mart’s Mexico operations is stepping down from his current board positions at MetLife, effective immediately. The insurance giant announced Tuesday afternoon that Eduardo Castro-Wright had...
Wal-Mart Shareholder Sues Over Mexican Bribery Scandal
Apr 25 2012 // A shareholder sued the board and several officers of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Wednesday over allegations that the company’s Mexican affiliate paid bribes to local officials. The lawsuit seeks to recover damage to the...
Illinois Man Sues Nestle, Wal-Mart Over Dog’s Death from ‘Wholesome’ Treat
Apr 20 2012 // The death of a 9-year-old Pomeranian from eating a dog treat is hardly “what nature intended,” according to a lawsuit filed this week. An Illinois man has sued Nestle Purina Petcare Co. and Wal-Mart Stores...
Insurance Retailer GEICO Lowering Commercial Auto Rates in Texas
Mar 23 2012 // Insurance direct marketer, GEICO, has announced that it is lowering commercial auto insurance rates for business owners in Texas. Commercial insurance packages cover the cars, trucks and vans used in conducting business,...
USI Acquires Illinois-Based Euclid Insurance Retail Business
Mar 8 2012 // USI Insurance Services (USI), headquartered in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., has acquired the Euclid Insurance retail property/casualty and employee benefits division (Euclid Retail Business) from Euclid Insurance Services...
5 Startup Businesses Agents Should Watch
Mar 1 2012 // It hasn’t been the best of times for America’s Main Street businesses. Often facing overwhelming competition from big box stores, many small businesses face an uphill battle from the outset and more than a few...
Five Startup Businesses Agents Should Watch
Feb 6 2012 // It hasn’t been the best of times for America’s Main Street businesses. Often facing overwhelming competition from big box stores, many small businesses face an uphill battle from the outset and more than a few...
How Insurance Distribution Is Changing
Jan 26 2012 // Insurance distribution is changing and agents and brokers—retailers and wholesalers—have to define the value they offer and what type of relationships they will have with carriers and customers in the years ahead,...
How Retail, Wholesale Distribution Chains Are Changing to Justify Value, Purpose
Jan 23 2012 // Retail and wholesale brokers face the challenge — and opportunity — of redefining their relationships and value proposition in today’s changing insurance distribution world, according to Glenn Hargrove,...
Walmart Seeks End to Refiled Gender Bias Lawsuit
Jan 18 2012 // Women who refiled a gender discrimination lawsuit against Walmart Stores Inc. have failed to come to grips with the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended their nationwide class action against the company, Walmart...
Supreme Court Walmart Ruling Shakes Up Employment Class Actions
Jan 10 2012 // The Supreme Court’s decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, heralded last term as a game-changer in employment class actions, has lived up to the hype. Since the Court issued the Dukes decision in June, it has been cited by...
Western Insurance Agents Roundtable: In Uncertain Economy, Change Is Certain
Jan 5 2012 // The economy, the promised-land of a hard insurance market and the need to master technologies dominated discussion at the first annual Insurance Industry Roundtable in Irvine, Calif. The daylong event was attended by 23...
Lloyd’s Highlights Retailers Need for Cyber Fraud Coverage
Dec 29 2011 // An article on the Lloyd’s of London web site notes that while millions of people have been out an about shopping this holiday season, “an increasing number are choosing to shop from the comfort of their homes...
Attorney Says Man Innocent in Wal-Mart Incident, May Sue
Dec 1 2011 // The attorney for an Arizona man forcibly taken down by Buckeye police at a Wal-Mart says he plans to clear his client of the criminal allegations stemming from an alleged shoplifting incident, and he’s contemplating...
Black Friday, Cyber Monday Bring Out the Risk Grinch
Nov 23 2011 // The rush is the risk on Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the eyes of a retail insurance and risk expert who previously worked in retail for 22 years. Kelly Brown of Zurich North America doesn’t go so far as to...
Women Launch New Legal Salvo Against Wal-Mart
Nov 7 2011 // Women pursuing discrimination claims against Arkansas-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. filed a reformulated lawsuit against the retailer, their first since a massive nationwide class action collapsed earlier this year. The...
Women Launch New Legal Salvo Against Wal-Mart
Oct 28 2011 // Women pursuing discrimination claims against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. filed a reformulated lawsuit against the world’s largest retailer, their first since a massive nationwide class action collapsed earlier this...
The Entrepreneurial Spirit: Turning Ideas into Reality
Oct 17 2011 // What is an entrepreneur? The exact characteristics that comprise an individual with the ability to bring new ideas to the marketplace and foster their success may be difficult to define. But it’s not much of a...
Brokers See Changing Relationships, Expanding Technology
Oct 3 2011 // At the same time they are trying to figure out what their customers, markets and the economy are going to do, today’s intermediaries are also having to navigate changing relationships among carriers, wholesalers and...
Court Sets October Deadline for Women Suing WalMart
Aug 22 2011 // Women who were part of a massive class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will have until the end of October to file individual lawsuits against the company, a U.S. judge ruled. Women who say the company denied...
