What 10 years of retirement couldn’t accomplish the coronavirus did in less than three months. I’m finally reading books.   A disappoi...

Perhaps you’re wondering why soooo many chain store retailers are closing sooooo many stores, especially after what has been hailed as...

Did you get all the presents you wished for during this holiday season? I purposely chose the word “wish” as it conjures up the im...

“Time and again, when confronted with the choice between convenience and affordability and the less tangible benefits of emotional int...

Among the tasks I assigned my staff and myself as editor and publisher of Chain Store Age was attending annual shareholders meeti...

Perhaps if you’ve been paying attention to news unrelated to Hurricane Michael or new Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh or the...

I was touched by two events Thursday, one that made national headlines, the second another example of economic realities in today’...

Let the trade wars begin. In an effort to resuscitate American industry, Donald Trump launched the first salvo Thursday in wha...

The news Friday that Dow Chemical and DuPont are seeking approval to merge brought back memories of my first meeting with Leo J. Shapiro, ...

They never called me back for my star turn as an extra on Show Me a Hero , and now the six-part HBO movie will begin Sunday night without ...

You probably wouldn’t assume it by looking at me but I have a streak of lumberjack in me. It’s not just the flannel and chamois shirts I f...

They picked up our garbage today as they normally do on Tuesdays. Last Tuesday they didn’t. It was Election Day. An homage to the right we...

Pigskin Bookends: The National Football League season started off its first weekend last summer with a controversial non-call of ...

It’s the post-Christmas season, that favorite time of year for stock analysts and business journalists to bang out on their keyboards early ...