Retail Autopsy: What Killed Borders, Circuit City and Hollywood Video

The Borders near me closed the other month. Wasn't surprising. Ditto for Circuit City. Gone. A few years prior to that it was Hollywood Video that rolled its end credits. The problem is, none of them had to go. They each died of self-inflicted wounds. Sure, a lot of their CEOs came out and blamed Iraq, the economy, e-commerce, etc., for their failures.

Lawsuit seeks to stop Junction City's barely begun beer sales

JUNCTION CITY — Beer sales had barely begun in this small Boyle County city when a suit was filed to stop those transaction. The complaint, filed in late December, seeks to declare as unconstitutional and void the 2011 law that allowed Junction City to be reclassified from a fifth-class to a fourth-class city. That law allowed the city to hold an Oct. 4 local-option election in which residents ...

How About Gardening or Golfing at the Mall?

After decades of decline, malls across the country are being redeveloped by communities and planners trying to forge new gathering places out of vast lots with empty buildings.

Successful Retail Not Just Plug And Play Any More

At the end of last year, Sears announced a closeout on over one hundred of its Sears and Kmart stores. Despite an increase in sales, Best Buy intends to cut some of its 1100 U.S. stores. Nordstrom's announces that it's moving more and more efforts online. Meanwhile, commercial developers are filling old Blockbuster, Circuit City ...

Court: Calif. gay marriage ban is unconstitutional

Court: Calif. gay marriage ban is unconstitutional A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled 2-1 Tuesday that a lower court judge interpreted the U.S. Constitution correctly in 2010 when he declared the ban, known as Proposition 8, to be a violation of the civil rights of gays and lesbians.