Will pre-Black Friday sales boost holiday retail for Amazon?

Amazon wants you too shop with them this holiday season. Free two-day shipping and unlimited access to streaming movies and TV shows isn’t enough to make you upgrade to an Amazon Prime subscriber, the online retailer just added one more perk: A 30-minute head start on the general public for…

Target says it will close 13 stores nationwide in January 2016

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — It was announced today that Target plans to close 13 stores nationwide, including one in the city of New Ulm and two others in Milwaukee and Superior, Wisconsin. The message from Minneapolis-based retailer says a decision to close a store usually follows several years of decreasing profitability. Target…