If you grew up during the 1990s, you likely remember taking numerous trips to various pizza spots throughout your childhood, ...

From the distinct smell of Sears portraits to the Blue Light Special stampedes at Kmart, these eight now-vanished retail ...

Kmart was the first store to open in Forest Plaza in 1979, across Johnson Street from Forest Mall. It closed in 2002 and ...

Kay-Bee Toy & Hobby Shop, later KB Toys, opened in the Forest Mall in 1979 and was a staple for curating holiday wishlists ...

One of the biggest problems a retailer can face is when a rival finds a way to bring customers their key product in a more convenient way. That's how Amazon drove Borders Books, Waldenbooks, and a ...

If you had any amount of independence in the 1980s, you probably spent a ton of time at the mall. In those glorious days, the mall was your town’s heartbeat. Everybody was there, all the time. But ...

It began, appropriately enough, with a book. Seattle-area real estate developer Ron Sher became infatuated with Ray Oldenburg’s 1989 book “The Great Good Place,” which argued that late 20th-century ...

Signs show that a Barnes & Noble bookstore location is opening soon near the main entrance to Fashion Fair mall in Fresno. CRAIG KOHLRUSS [email protected] The Starbucks won’t be in a ...

Locally owned independent bookstores, once considered an endangered species, are thriving, and they’re elevating local authors. The rise of shopping mall stores like WaldenBooks and B. Dalton’s ...

Joy Dallanegra-Sanger, the American Booksellers Association’s chief operating officer, joined the organization in 2011 after working in bookselling and at major publishing houses. She talked with PW ...

Interior of a new Barnes & Noble store in New Jersey featuring the new design that s similar to the store coming to Richardson. [email protected] Wait, Amazon closed all its physical bookstores ...

The setting on a recent Saturday was the community under a roof that owners Emily and Ryan Autenreith envisioned when they opened their Elk Grove bookstore, A Seat at the Table, nearly two years ago.